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

[Markus Neteler]

On 5/16/07, Raj Singh <raj at rajsingh.org> wrote:
> 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.
> ---
> Raj

Here are some starting points:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Library#GFOSS_Books

More will appear later this year :)

Markus