[OSGeo-Discuss] One Lecture on Open Source Geospatial

[Alex Mandel]

I forgot to mention I have a 1-2 hour QGIS workshop that covers the
basics of vector and raster with a dataset. Been meaning to post it,
I've done it with OSGeo Live several times. If you want it let me know.

Thanks,
Alex

On 09/30/2013 10:18 AM, Alex Mandel wrote:
> Here are my slides that I've remixed a few times for various guest
> lectures in College GIS courses.
> http://www.scribd.com/doc/172165387/Introduction-to-Geospatial-The-open-source-method
> 
> I mostly cover how the license makes it different, but students
> shouldn't be afraid of it - then how you can do all the same things you
> would expect, sometimes easier and sometimes harder than any other
> software option.
> 
> Enjoy,
> Alex
> 
> On 09/30/2013 08:05 AM, Barry Rowlingson wrote:
>> A colleague who lectures on GIS at the university asked me if I'd give
>> him some advice on open-source geospatial so he could at least
>> introduce his third year geography & environmental science
>> undergraduates to the idea. Thanks to the joy of site licenses the
>> students get to use ACME Proprietary GIS System without having to
>> worry about the cost.
>>
>> So anyway, I offered to teach the lecture for him. What can I do in 50
>> minutes (and possibly a workshop) for 90 undergraduates? Here's a
>> brain dump:
>>
>>  Compare and contrast: Free/Open/Proprietary/Closed/Commercial.
>> Copyright/Licensing/GPL/Copyleft etc.
>>
>>  Open Standards: formation and importance - talk about the OGC,
>> general goodness of interoperability
>>
>>  Open source development advantages/perceived disadvantages and
>> rejoinders to those.
>>
>>  Commercialising Open Source, open source in industry.
>>
>>  Open Source in Education - reproducible science, 'climategate' as a
>> failure of openness?
>>
>>  Case Studies: Open source in government - global deployments as case studies
>>
>>  Open source in the UK:  Ordnance Survey/Met Office case studies
>>
>> - thats probably enough for 50 minutes. If I can do a workshop I'd
>> probably just get them to boot up OSGeo Live and play with QGIS for an
>> hour, maybe try and duplicate one of their GIS exercises from an
>> earlier module (load layers, buffer, overlay, report...).
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> Barry
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