[GRASS-user] Re: [Qgis-user] Basic GIS course ideas

[Radim Blazek]

On 10/6/06, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
> We are finding QGIS by far the best tool for introductory courses. The
> GRASS plugin allows a smooth progress from simple coloured maps up into
> the heaven of complex raster and vector analyses. The native compilation
> on xp makes things even easier for novices.
> The only serios problem now is the instability of qgis 0.8; I think we
> need a good deal of effort to have a really stable and bugfree release.
> I like the idea of a standard set of exercises. A wiki could be a good
> starting point?

I wrote some recipes in GRASS/QGIS Cookbook:
http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/GrassCookbook
that was inteded for autodidacts, not for courses,
but hopefully some materials could be shared?

Radim

> All the best.
> pc
>
> maning sambale ha scritto:
> > Hi FOSS GIS users,
> >
> > I am a part-time instructor in a college teaching introductory gis
> > course.  I have been advocating for the use FOSS GIS (particularly
> > GRASS and QGIS ) in our schools for the lab sessions.
> > This is the second term I am doing this and have been reflecting on
> > how did it go the first time.
> >
> > The objective of the course is for students to understand basic gis
> > principles as well as practical applications in site planning, land
> > use, ecology and business.
> >
> > Judging by the previous experience, it is a little bit difficult
> > introducing the student FOSS GIS especially the linux way of doing
> > things (CLI).  We are using XP machines and most students probably
> > know computers as MS windows only.
> >
> > Some are more interested in creating cool maps and not on the
> > underlying spatial analysis techniques (i.e. r.mapcalc) that were
> > used.
> >
> > I wrote the list to ask GRASS instructors on any ideas in making the
> > course better.  If you have any approaches/techniques/exercises you
> > might want to share please do.  I firmly believe using FOSS GIS
> > especially in our country is very important.  As a compromise though,
> > a suggestion from this list was to also introduce them to propriety
> > GIS package.  We have a few arcview 3.2 in the lab so I might give a 1
> > or 2 sessions about it.
> >
> > Any ideas would be appreciated.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Maning
> >
>
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