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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Any chance you can make your lecture materials available to others... perhaps at your Departmental website or the OSGeo Africa website? If not the detailed work, the overview.... (plus speaker notes would be an added bonus). I realize you already have your hands full, but I just thinking that other faculty could benefit from the time you're already putting into preparation.</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Perhaps others on the list could point you to links for existing ppts that could be helpful.</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Kate<BR></DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">----- Original Message ----<BR>From: Frank Sokolic <sokolic@worldonline.co.za><BR>To: Africa@lists.osgeo.org<BR>Sent: Thursday, September 6, 2007 9:58:51 PM<BR>Subject: Re: [OSGeo Africa] FOSS GIS<BR><BR>
<DIV>Thanks everyone for all the suggestions. I'll certainly have a lot to <BR>present to the students! Eduoard, I like your categorisation of the <BR>various packages and I'll probably mention most of these before <BR>providing a more detailed look at selected packages. As a few of you <BR>have mentioned, web mapping has to form part of the seminar - many of <BR>the students will need to have knowledge of this in whatever jobs they <BR>go into after graduating.<BR><BR>Here at the University of KwaZulu-Natal our students get a solid <BR>grounding in commercial GIS and Remote Sensing software (e.g. ArcGIS, <BR>Idrisi, Erdas) but I think that giving them some exposure to open-source <BR>packages will be to their benefit. I think that many of them aren't even <BR>aware of other GIS packages outside of those they work with.<BR><BR><BR>Regards,<BR>Frank Sokolic<BR>School of Environmental Sciences<BR>UKZN<BR><BR>Edouard Legoupil wrote:<BR>> Hi
Franck,<BR>> <BR>> My feeling is that in 2007, it is not possible to avoid mentioning web mapping applications when talking about Open Source GIS<BR>><BR>> Here's below a tentative of categorization the most known packages:<BR>> <BR>> Remote sensing oriented soft:<BR>> OSSIM<BR>> ILWIS<BR>> Spring<BR>> Multispec<BR>><BR>> Desktop GIS:<BR>> GRASS (is also good for raster)<BR>> QGIS (QGIS can be coupled with Grass as QGIS interface is far more user friendly)<BR>> Mapwindows<BR>> <BR>> Java Desktop GIS:<BR>> Udig, <BR>> gvSIG, <BR>> the JUMP family (open Jump, Sky JUMP, Dee JUMP, etc.. <A href="http://www.openjump.org/wiki/show/OpenJUMPs+Family" target=_blank>http://www.openjump.org/wiki/show/OpenJUMPs+Family</A> )<BR>> <BR>> Server GIS:<BR>> Based on UMN Mapserver (- <A href="http://www.cartoweb.org/" target=_blank>www.cartoweb.org</A> , kmap,
maplab...) <BR>> Based on Java Geotools (- <A href="http://www.geoserver.org/" target=_blank>www.Geoserver.org</A> for implementation of WFS-T, Mapbuilder, Mapbender)<BR>> MapGuide <BR>> <BR>> Spatial DB:<BR>> Postgis/PostgreSQL<BR>><BR>> Metadata management (very important):<BR>> geonetwork<BR>> <BR>> Libraries and small utilities:<BR>> Geotools,<BR>> FWtools<BR>> GDAL <BR>> Proj<BR>> OGR<BR>> <BR>> Maybe you should introduce some ideas on how to evaluate the reliability of an open source project and how such project are created and evolves (number of users, number of release, etc...). The case of Jump is a good example of how a project can divide itself.... <BR>> <BR>> Another good point would be to present the Open Source business model (Nothing's free in this world!): Some projects are supported by Governmental organization and developed by private
companies, some are through Universities, and some are former proprietary solutions that turned out to be open source like MapGuide from Autodesk....<BR>> <BR>> Good Luck and best regards,<BR>> Edouard<BR>><BR>><BR>><BR>> <BR>>>>> "mark@deblois.nl" <mark@deblois.nl> 09/05/07 06:53PM >>><BR>>>>> <BR>> Hi Frank,<BR>><BR>> You might also want to mention:<BR>> - ILWIS remote sensing software which has gone open source recently (see<BR>> <A href="http://52north.org/index.php?option=com_projects&task=showProject&id=30&Itemid=127" target=_blank>http://52north.org/index.php?option=com_projects&task=showProject&id=30&Itemid=127</A>),<BR>> - FWTools (<A href="http://fwtools.maptools.org/" target=_blank>http://fwtools.maptools.org/</A>)<BR>> - OpenJump (<A
href="http://openjump.org/wiki/show/HomePage" target=_blank>http://openjump.org/wiki/show/HomePage</A>).<BR>> - uDIG (<A href="http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/UDIG/Home" target=_blank>http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/UDIG/Home</A>)<BR>> - gvSIG (<A href="http://www.gvsig.gva.es/index.php?id=gvsig&L=2" target=_blank>http://www.gvsig.gva.es/index.php?id=gvsig&L=2</A>)<BR>><BR>> I presume you are not going to get into web mapping applications or<BR>> spatial databases, in that case there is a lot to add to the list.<BR>><BR>> cheers,<BR>> Mark de Blois<BR>> GIS Consultant<BR>> Maplecroft<BR>><BR>><BR>> <BR>>>> Hi,<br><br>I'm planning a seminar on FOSS GIS software, which I'll be<BR>>>> <BR>>> presenting to GIS/Remote Sensing students at the University of<BR>>>
<BR>>>> KwaZulu-Natal. I'll be demonstrating GRASS, QGIS, MultiSpec, Spring and<BR>>>> <BR>>> MapWindow&nbsp;but would like to know whether&nbsp;there any other<BR>>> packages worth looking at? Anyone have any suggestions?<br>&nbsp;<br>I'm<BR>>> also a bit confused about OSSIM. Is it a standalone program or is it a<BR>>> collection of library routines? The OSSIM webpages are not all that<BR>>> clear.<br><br>Regards,<br>Frank Sokolic.<br><BR>>> <BR>>>> _______________________________________________<BR>>>> Africa mailing list<BR>>>> Africa@lists.osgeo.org <BR>>>><BR>>>><BR>>>> <BR>>><BR>>><BR>>> <BR>><BR>><BR>>
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