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

Sun Aug 16 05:44:28 PDT 2015

Nikos, Suchith, OSGeo software project teams:

Re the GeoForAll newsletter:

Please consider having a regular section in the newsletter that does a
story on some class or material someone in our network has developed, and
promotes the open access educational material that GeoForAll labs are
building through this metadata inventory system [1].

I hope the OSGeo software project teams might consider writing a post about
their own training activities and consider posting metadata links to their
materials via this system as well.  This will be a further step toward a
closer partnership between our education network and the software teams.

Cheers,
Charlie Schweik

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

On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 5:10 AM, Suchith Anand <
Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> Kurt, This is great work that you are doing and thank you for sharing this
> .
>
> I am sure there are thousands of excellent examples like these in our
> OSGeo community which we need to highlight to the wider world to build more
> ideas and collaborations. Our "Geo for All" newsletters will reach
> thousands of readers and it will make sure more collaborations are build.
>
> So i request everyone to send their examples (from Government, Industry,
> SME, Startups, NGOs etc) to the lists or directly to Nikos ( email -
> labrinos at eled.auth.gr ) and we will aim to get these examples published
> in our monthly newsletters as regular feature. So it will good to have lot
> of examples so we can get them published one by one.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Suchith
>
>
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> ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Phillip Davis [
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> Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2015 9:25 PM
> To: Charles Schweik; Kurt Menke
> Cc: ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Inviting examples of Open Source Geospatial
> ...
>
> Kurt is a GeoAcademy SME and faculty.  :)
>
> ________________________________________
> 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
> Cc: ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
> 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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Charlie Schweik

Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Dept of Environmental Conservation and Center for Public Policy and
Administration

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Publications: http://works.bepress.com/charles_schweik/

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