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

[Phillip Davis]

Kurt is a GeoAcademy SME and faculty.  :)

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From: ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Charles Schweik [cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu]
Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2015 3:24 PM
To: Kurt Menke
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Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Inviting examples of Open Source Geospatial ...

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<mailto: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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