<div dir="ltr">Nikos, Suchith, OSGeo software project teams:<div><br></div><div>Re the GeoForAll newsletter: </div><div><br></div><div>Please consider having a regular section in the newsletter that does a story on some class or material someone in our network has developed, and promotes the open access educational material that GeoForAll labs are building through this metadata inventory system [1]. </div><div><br></div><div>I hope the OSGeo software project teams might consider writing a post about their own training activities and consider posting metadata links to their materials via this system as well. This will be a further step toward a closer partnership between our education network and the software teams. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Charlie Schweik</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://www.osgeo.org/education">http://www.osgeo.org/education</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 5:10 AM, Suchith Anand <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Kurt, This is great work that you are doing and thank you for sharing this .<br>
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I am sure there are thousands of excellent examples like these in our OSGeo community which we need to highlight to the wider world to build more ideas and collaborations. Our "Geo for All" newsletters will reach thousands of readers and it will make sure more collaborations are build.<br>
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So i request everyone to send their examples (from Government, Industry, SME, Startups, NGOs etc) to the lists or directly to Nikos ( email -<a href="mailto:labrinos@eled.auth.gr">labrinos@eled.auth.gr</a> ) and we will aim to get these examples published in our monthly newsletters as regular feature. So it will good to have lot of examples so we can get them published one by one.<br>
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Best wishes,<br>
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Suchith<br>
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Kurt is a GeoAcademy SME and faculty. :)<br>
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That's awesome Kurt! When ready, consider posting a link to the material on our metadata search database. [1,2]<br>
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Cheers, Charlie<br>
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[1] <a href="http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content</a><br>
[2] <a href="http://www.osgeo.org/education" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.osgeo.org/education</a><br>
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On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Kurt Menke <<a href="mailto:kurt@birdseyeviewgis.com">kurt@birdseyeviewgis.com</a><mailto:<a href="mailto:kurt@birdseyeviewgis.com">kurt@birdseyeviewgis.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
For the last several years I have been working with the National Library of Medicine to document and teach a minority public health mapping workflow. The idea is that minority public health organizations have limited staff and budgets, but have mapping needs. What we came up with is designed for public health professionals, people who don’t have the time to be full time GIS specialists. So we’ve outlined and taught a workflow from A) field mapping with smart phones/tablets, B) bringing the data into QGIS to combine with other datasets to tell a story/analysis, and C) dissemination over the web via CartoDB or GIS Cloud. This link is the project synopsis: <a href="http://communityhealthmaps.nlm.nih.gov/about/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://communityhealthmaps.nlm.nih.gov/about/</a> The basic goal is to empower minority communities by teaching them to collect and work with their own data, versus what is sent to them by the CDC.<br>
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As part of this, I’ve been authoring a blog Community Health Mapping <a href="http://communityhealthmaps.nlm.nih.gov/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://communityhealthmaps.nlm.nih.gov/</a> . The blog is written at a layperson level of technical detail and serves to keep the workflow current with rapidly developing technology. It also is forum for case studies and new advances in community health mapping tools. There are several case studies written by guest bloggers. One of these was written by several high schools students in a poor island near Charleston, SC, who I trained to map their neighborhood in an afternoon. <a href="http://communityhealthmaps.nlm.nih.gov/2015/02/11/community-health-maps-conducts-a-training-in-the-south-carolina-lowcountry/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://communityhealthmaps.nlm.nih.gov/2015/02/11/community-health-maps-conducts-a-training-in-the-south-carolina-lowcountry/</a> They were really excited to be able to use their phones to do this work!<br>
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I have also developed a public health mapping course with six labs, built in the same style as the GeoAcademy courses. It essentially takes a student through the workflow. The labs are in beta at the moment but will be freely available once completed.<br>
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To date we’ve trained public health professionals in Charleston, SC, Seattle, WA, Honolulu, HI, and Tuskeegee, MI. It has been very successful and a lot of fun. This work has been presented at several FOSS4G meetings in past years.<br>
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Kurt<br>
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