<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">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.<div><br></div><div>Jody</div><div><br><div><div>On 30/10/2009, at 9:06 PM, nimalika fernando wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hi,<br><br>I was involved in doing some introductory level GIS unit ( not for geography people) in Asia last year. <br>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. <br>
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 .<br>
<br>There are few basic level tutorials I have prepared on using software to prepare maps also. I have used QGIS /Udig as the software.<br><br>Do you like to have a look at them ? <br><br>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.<br>
Goodluck!<br><br>Nimalika<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 2:35 PM, G. Allegri <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:giohappy@gmail.com" target="_blank">giohappy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I'm going to teach a course (mostly as volunteer time) on GIS basics<br>
and GPS surveying for an ONG in Africa. The first two days they will<br>
self-teach cartography basics, then I'll begin from GIS, etc. They<br>
asked me if I could indicate them some links to free introductory<br>
material on cartography (earth shape, coordinates, maps, reference<br>
systems, projections, etc.).<br>
Does anybody know web resources, or could share copyleft<br>
tutorials/manuals/etc on the subject? I've found something googling,<br>
from wikipedia to some sparse course chapters, but I would like to<br>
find structured, clean and easy, stuff. Am I asking too much?<br>
<br>
Thanks very much,<br>
Giovanni<br>
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