[Ica-osgeo-labs] Inviting examples of Open Source Geospatial ...

[Charles Schweik]

That's awesome Kurt! When ready, consider posting a link to the material on
our metadata search database. [1,2]

Cheers, Charlie

[1] http://www.osgeo.org/educational_content
[2] http://www.osgeo.org/education

On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Kurt Menke <kurt at birdseyeviewgis.com>
wrote:

> For the last several years I have been working with the National Library
> of Medicine to document and teach a minority public health mapping
> workflow. The idea is that minority public health organizations have
> limited staff and budgets, but have mapping needs. What we came up with is
> designed for public health professionals, people who don’t have the time to
> be full time GIS specialists. So we’ve outlined and taught a workflow from
> A) field mapping with smart phones/tablets, B) bringing the data into QGIS
> to combine with other datasets to tell a story/analysis, and C)
> dissemination over the web via CartoDB or GIS Cloud. This link is the
> project synopsis:  http://communityhealthmaps.nlm.nih.gov/about/  The
> basic goal is to empower minority communities by teaching them to collect
> and work with their own data, versus what is sent to them by the CDC.
>
>
>
> As part of this, I’ve been authoring a blog Community Health Mapping
> http://communityhealthmaps.nlm.nih.gov/ . The blog is written at a
> layperson level of technical detail and serves to keep the workflow current
> with rapidly developing technology. It also is forum for case studies and
> new advances in community health mapping tools. There are several case
> studies written by guest bloggers. One of these was written by several high
> schools students in a poor island near Charleston, SC, who I trained to map
> their neighborhood in an afternoon.
> http://communityhealthmaps.nlm.nih.gov/2015/02/11/community-health-maps-conducts-a-training-in-the-south-carolina-lowcountry/
>   They were really excited to be able to use their phones to do this work!
>
>
>
> I have also developed a public health mapping course with six labs, built
> in the same style as the GeoAcademy courses. It essentially takes a student
> through the workflow. The labs are in beta at the moment but will be freely
> available once completed.
>
>
>
> To date we’ve trained public health professionals in Charleston, SC,
> Seattle, WA, Honolulu, HI, and Tuskeegee, MI. It has been very successful
> and a lot of fun. This work has been presented at several FOSS4G meetings
> in past years.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Kurt
>
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Charlie Schweik

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Dept of Environmental Conservation and Center for Public Policy and
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