<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Jorge Gustavo Rocha <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jgr@di.uminho.pt" target="_blank">jgr@di.uminho.pt</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div id=":113" class="" style="overflow:hidden">My goal was to create a course that could be translated to different languages, and always using local data.<br>
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I've created <a href="http://mapmaking.info/" target="_blank">http://mapmaking.info/</a> to setup the course. I've just created contents for chinese students, using chinese data (but I didn't had time to write it in mandarim, so it is still in english). Now I'm translating the course to portuguese, using data from Portugal.<br>
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My suggestion is to use administrative data for some global source like:<br>
* <a href="http://www.gadm.org/" target="_blank">http://www.gadm.org/</a><br>
* <a href="http://gdem.ersdac.jspacesystems.or.jp/" target="_blank">http://gdem.ersdac.jspacesystems.or.jp/</a><br>
* OSM planet extracts<br>
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Every student would use the same technologies, the same algoritms, but using data that has some meaning for them. Those interested in teaching the course to a new community would have to translate the contents and to provide the equivalent datasets related with the community.<br>
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We already have tons of open source software available in different languagues and amazing data from all around the globe. It is time to create powerful contens "Think globally" adapted to local learning communities "act locally".</div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">This is a great approach. In GRASS GIS community, we are preparing datasets which should allow exactly this - using the same examples but with different data. We hope it will be reusable by others in the same way as the original North Carolina (nc_spm) data were reused by others especially OSGeoLive. Here is a wiki page about it:<br><br><a href="http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_GIS_Standardized_Sample_Datasets">http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_GIS_Standardized_Sample_Datasets</a><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I'll have a talk at FOSS4G Europe where I'll will partially talk about it (abstracts are not online yet, so no link). There are two more datasets being prepared besides North Carolina (USA) and Piemonte (Italy) which you can already see on the wiki.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Anybody, let me know if you are more interested in that.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Vaclav<br></div></div>