[Ica-osgeo-labs] Update on OGC E-Learning material

[Cameron Shorter]

Hi Luis,
Yes, I think that this OGC E-Leaning material would be an excellent 
candidate for including in OSGeo-Live documentation, once the 
documentation is suitably mature, and any packaging tweaks are addressed.

I'm CCing the OSGeo-Live email list to see if there are others within 
the OSGeo-Live community with suggestions.

Luis,
Do you have a timeframe in mind for a "version 1" of this training 
material? Where version 1 would have sufficient content and quality to 
be considered production worthy and something that we would consider 
worthy of including in OSGeo-Live. Version 1 might not include all 
standards, but would probably include quality descriptions of the most 
used standards.

Cheers, Cameron

On 30/06/2015 4:44 am, Luis Bermudez wrote:
> Hi Cameron
>
> I appreciate very much your great feedback.  I have created 4 issues 
>  [1] in GitHub with your 4 concerns. We will be commenting on those as 
> we make progress.
>
> Question: Can you use the materials with the current structure for 
> OSGeo-Live?
>
> [1] https://github.com/opengeospatial/e-learning/issues
>
> Best Regards.
>
> Luis Bermudez, Ph.D.
> Executive Director Compliance and E-Learning
> Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
> Skype: bermudez_luis
> Twitter: @berdez
> Tel: +1 301 760 7323
> https://www.linkedin.com/in/bermudez
>
>
> The OGC: Making Location Count
>
> On Jun 28, 2015, at 9:09 AM, Cameron Shorter 
> <cameron.shorter at gmail.com <mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>> Hi Luis,
>> You have some good material in place, and a good document structure.
>> I haven't had time to do much more than a quick skim, but have picked 
>> up on a couple of things.
>> (Hopefully you were looking for feedback?)
>>
>> I'm looking at the WMS Introduction page:
>> http://54.68.173.163/el/wms/text/basic-main.html
>>
>> The page is missing a date stamp. It would be useful for a reader to 
>> know if this page is still current? Possibly add a "Last Updated" tag 
>> or similar.
>>
>> Nice idea to have a History section.
>> This would probably be best structured as a table with:
>>
>> <version number> <Release date> <Summary of what changed since last 
>> release>
>>
>> Somewhere, probably in a separate document, there should be a 
>> detailed description listing everything which has changed since the 
>> last release.
>> This will help implementers answer:
>> * If I upgrade a legacy system to a more recent OGC standard, what 
>> extra functionality will I gain? What incompatibility issues might be 
>> encountered, if any?
>>
>>
>> I like the "Relation to other Standards" section.
>> It is good to explain why WFS would be used instead of WMS. I suggest 
>> it would be valuable to explain the opposite as well. Why would you 
>> use WMS instead of WFS (or instead of WMTS)?
>>
>> Example:
>> I notice the example references an external URL ( 
>> http://metaspatial.net/ ). For OGC branded material, I'd suggest that 
>> all examples or references maintained on OGC infrastructure, and not 
>> rely on a third party which may have different terms of service.
>> In particular, I'd suggest that all training material should make use 
>> of relative URLs for web services from training material. Ie, instead 
>> of referencing http://www.opengeospatial.org/<services>/wms.cgi
>> reference ../../<services>/wms/cgi
>> That way, the training material, along with all the examples can be 
>> copied into a virtual machine or similar and used in a classroom, or ...
>> (We follow this convention with the OSGeo-Live project).
>>
>> Warm regards,
>> Cameron
>>
>> On 27/06/2015 5:55 am, Luis Bermudez wrote:
>>> All,
>>>
>>> We have made some progress developing OGC online training material.
>>>
>>> I have updated the wiki to reflect the latest. Here we have the 
>>> logical groupings we are thinking about in order to make the 
>>> standards easier to digest and explain, and maybe in the future to 
>>> provide professionals OGC certification.
>>>
>>> https://github.com/opengeospatial/e-learning/wiki/Content
>>>
>>>
>>> The source [1] should be easily reusable. We have design it in a way 
>>> that the documentation can be easily incorporated in other places 
>>> (e.g. OCG Live).
>>>
>>> For example
>>>
>>> - introduction to OGC can be found here in the intro-ogc.rst file [2]
>>> - introduction to WMS 1.3 [3]
>>>
>>> We also have demo server with the content created so far:
>>>
>>> http://54.68.173.163/el/
>>>
>>> Help, feedback and comments are appreciated.
>>>
>>> [1] https://github.com/opengeospatial/e-learning/tree/master/source
>>> [2] 
>>> https://github.com/opengeospatial/e-learning/tree/master/source/ogc/text
>>> [3] 
>>> https://github.com/opengeospatial/e-learning/blob/master/source/wms/text/basic-main.rst
>>>
>>> Enjoy!
>>>
>>> Luis Bermudez, Ph.D.
>>> Executive Director Compliance and E-Learning
>>> Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
>>> Skype: bermudez_luis
>>> Twitter: @berdez
>>> Tel: +1 301 760 7323
>>> https://www.linkedin.com/in/bermudez
>>>
>>> The OGC: Making Location Count
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>> -- 
>> Cameron Shorter,
>> Software and Data Solutions Manager
>> LISAsoft
>> Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf,
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>>
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>

-- 
Cameron Shorter,
Software and Data Solutions Manager
LISAsoft
Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf,
26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009

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