[OSGeo-Discuss] looking for introductory material on cartography

[G. Allegri]

Thanks you very much for your replies.
Nimalika, I would really like to have a look at your material. I'm
mostly interested in cartography basics, but a look at the rest would
be helpful too. I will produce ad-hoc presentations on GIS (and Qgis
usage) and GPS, and I could share them after the course.

Jody, thank's for the tip. I will wait for foss4g material.

giovanni

2009/10/30 Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>:
> You may wish to look at some of the materials coming out of the the FOSS4G
> conference; I think the "making maps pretty" workshop will be up shortly as
> a PDF for example and it has an overview of the cartography/communication
> side of maps.
> Jody
> On 30/10/2009, at 9:06 PM, nimalika fernando wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I was involved in doing some introductory level GIS unit ( not for geography
> people) in Asia last year.
> Once I was asked to do that course, I faced the same situation as you. We
> are working under very tight cost constraints and cannot use costly material
> or ask people to use such.
> I have prepared some presentations for the course  with lot of supporting
> material from freely available web resources/ diagrams etc. That does not
> cover sufficient level of GPS surveying .
>
> There are few basic level tutorials I have prepared  on using software to
> prepare maps also. I have used QGIS /Udig as the software.
>
> Do you like to have a look at them ?
>
> If so I may be able to provide an access code for this material available in
> their website.  You may use them if useful for your purpose.
> Goodluck!
>
> Nimalika
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 2:35 PM, G. Allegri <giohappy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm going to teach a course (mostly as volunteer time) on GIS basics
>> and GPS surveying for an ONG in Africa. The first two days they will
>> self-teach cartography basics, then I'll begin from GIS, etc. They
>> asked me if I could indicate them some links to free introductory
>> material on cartography (earth shape, coordinates, maps, reference
>> systems, projections, etc.).
>> Does anybody know web resources, or could share copyleft
>> tutorials/manuals/etc on the subject? I've found something googling,
>> from wikipedia to some sparse course chapters, but I would like to
>> find structured, clean and easy, stuff. Am I asking too much?
>>
>> Thanks very much,
>> Giovanni
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