Charlie Schweik wrote:
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This connects back to my earlier education post that Frank Warmerdam
responded to. He asked:
I would have thought it would be more productive to take existing
curriculum guidelines and get project support in rebuilding them around
foss projects/products.
Ian Turton wrote:
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Charlie Schweik
cschw...@pubpol.umass.edu wrote:
I'm also wondering if we could get some funding somewhere to hold an invited
workshop (that pays for people to attend) to really dig into this.
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/gpg/nsf04_23/2.jsp#IID7
As Ian said, the Universities are stuck in a vicious circle. Believe it or
not, faculty do try to teach a GIScience that is independent of any
particular software package. But the perspective ends up being that ESRI
provides both the tools and teaching materials in a consistent manner. If
the
Eric Wolf wrote:
I surely don't need another project right now, but I've been trolling to
find a co-author to create a cookbook-style Python geoprocessing book that
uses GDAL/OGR and other FOSS libraries. This would be considered a text for
a fairly advanced GIS course.
Eric,
You may want to
Hi Eric,
Maybe we should focus on a GIS on a stick product rather than a LiveDVD?
We (CASCADOSS project) have been using our own distro for the training. You
will find it here: http://cascadoss.competterra.com/cascadoss.php?livedvd_en
I am not entirely sure, but I think Compet-Terra developed a
Peter,
You make a very good point as to the value of marketing.
Thinking back to the early '90s when I was a MicroStation / Intergraph / GDS
user, the factor that attracted me across to using ESRI software at the time
was their marketing approach.
Where Bentley and Intergraph were focusing on
- Eric Wolf ebw...@gmail.com wrote:
snip
Maybe we should focus on a GIS on a stick product rather than a
LiveDVD?
Jo Cook wrote you a Windows one of those already :) - so you could even give to
the students for ongoing use of the tools and data. And of course that is about
as
