[OSGeo-Edu] Mapping Your Data: Open Tools Serving Open Data

[P Kishor]

Very nicely done. The easiest way to connect it to the edu project is
to add it to the wiki.

For others that might want to create screencasts, I have started a
page called "Tools of Trade". Please add to it as appropriate --
<http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Tools_of_Trade>

On 3/19/07, Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at metacarta.com> wrote:
> Yesterday, I put together a 4 minute video demonstrating how to load GIS
> data into QGIS, style it according to an attribute value, export to a
> mapfile, and serve via MapServer to OpenLayers.
>
> You can view the video online at:
>
>   http://openlayers.org/presentations/mappingyourdata/
>
> (Requires Flash.)
>
> The wiki page that goes along with it is at:
>
>   http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/MappingYourData
>
> I think this falls under the umbrella of:
>
> """
> creating curricula to teach skills necessary for people to actively
> participate in supported OSGeo software and data projects.
> """
>   -- http://www.osgeo.org/education
>
> Is this the kind of thing the education committee has interest in
> creating and maintaining? What is the best way to associate this
> material with the project?
>


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Puneet Kishor http://punkish.eidesis.org/
Nelson Inst. for Env. Studies, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu/
Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org/education/
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