[OSGeo-Discuss] Introduction - hi; gis based wychwood work; pointers on how to enter "GIS" world?

[Ian Turton]

On 3/13/06, M.Blackmore <mblackmore at oxlug.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 10:14 -0500, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> > M.Blackmore wrote:
> > > So ... for a COMPLETE gis newbie ... where do I start?
>
> <top post begging of forgiveness> Thanks for the suggestions thus far,
> folks! The level of my ignorance is profound as I didn't understand most
> of what Frank was saying, the terminology being utterly unfamiliar
> (polygons? Wossat? A dead parrot?) but I could take some guesses...
>
> So I'll try and rustle out a few books and such like. I can also play
> with mapinfo of which they have data from people like Thames Water and
> the County Council made available. Trouble is - and this is the trouble
> with expensive proprietary software - the only licenced copy they've got
> is on the director's PC so I have to fit in when he's not using the
> machine, i.e. for an hour or so Friday morning when my 3yr old is in
> preschool.
>
> Such restrictions (machine licences, not 3 year olds...) are amongst the
> reason why, if the functionality can be created using open source, there
> would be a lot of support for a move into OS, thus allowing widespread
> access.


To get you started is this the sort of map that you could use?

http://vision.edina.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wms-vision?version=1.1.0&request=getMap&layers=newpop%2Csmall_1920%2Cmed_1904&styles=&SRS=EPSG:27700&Format=image/png&width=450&height=450&bgcolor=cfd6e5&bbox=431269.31870141765,214598.0795610425,436619.11294010084,219947.8737997257&exception=application/vnd.ogc.se_inimage

It dates from the 1940s and thus is out of copyright! It might be enough to
get you started - I'd reccomend Tyler's book and UDIG as an OS Desktop GIS.
You should be able to explore the dataset I've pointed to above by opening
http://vision.edina.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wms-vision?<http://vision.edina.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wms-vision?version=1.1.0&request=getMap&layers=newpop%2Csmall_1920%2Cmed_1904&styles=&SRS=EPSG:27700&Format=image/png&width=450&height=450&bgcolor=cfd6e5&bbox=431269.31870141765,214598.0795610425,436619.11294010084,219947.8737997257&exception=application/vnd.ogc.se_inimage>in
the web map layer wizard.

Ian

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Ian Turton
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