[OSGeo-Edu] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Use cases for FOSS-GIS in universities

[Raj Singh]

Whether commercial or open source, this technology is difficult to  
learn. I think the problem is that academia doesn't know what these  
new tools are good for. Someone mentioned the Tomlin book. It's great  
if you need to do spatial analysis for landscape ecology or urban  
planning. If you're interested in collaborative geo-information  
sharing, the new open source tools are great for this, but there is  
no curriculum or textbook to reference. Until the next Tomlin comes  
along and puts the conceptual foundation in place, I believe the  
situation Arnulf describes will persist.
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Raj


On May 13, 2007, at 8:19 AM, Arnulf Christl wrote:

> Ther is absoultely no support or even requests from professors. I  
> guess
> this has to do with several reasons, one is not knowing how to do it
> themselves, another is lack of time (turning universities into  
> businesses
> breaks people having time for this kind of thing), course material  
> from
> last millenium, etc.