New to the List

[Emil Zegers]

Hello Tomash,

Check out the free Handbuch from CCGIS at 
http://www.ccgis.de/handbuch_Vorwort_Einleitung.html

Not free but very nice to read is the MapServer Handbuch from 
MapMedia  http://www.mapmedia.de/mapserver-handbuch.html

And take a look at the tutorial at 
http://www.freegis.org/tutorial/download

All books are in german.

Regards,

Emil Zegers


----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
Van: Tomasz Adamczewski <tadamcz at AE.KATOWICE.PL>
Datum: dinsdag, januari 24, 2006 2:27 am
Onderwerp: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] New to the List

> Dear Friends,
> 
> My name is Tomasz Adamczewski, I am an Assistant Lecturer and a 
> ResearchFaculty Member and Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of 
> InformationTechnology of the Karol Adamiecki Higher School of 
> Economics in Katowice,
> Poland.
> 
> My doctoral project, whose working title reads: "MapServer as a Tool
> Supporting Data Analysis in Data Warehouses. Towards New 
> Applications of DM
> Solutions Open Source Geospacial Rendering Software," focuses upon 
the
> application of the software developed by your Community as an 
> interfacesupporting the analysis of DWH data for such purposes as 
> index analysis,
> asset management, marketing, etc. So far, the problems concerning 
> GIS-DWH
> integration have been addressed by a highly limited number of 
> scientists and
> IT specialists (e.g.: INCO-COPERNICUS Project No. 977091 – a 
> cooperativeproject between Technical University Vienna, Czech 
> Technical University
> Prague; Lumare GIS, Ltd.; Technical University of Kosice, 
> University GH
> Essen, and VEGA, Ltd.,  completed in 2001, and Japanese projects). 
> It is
> especially in the context of the application and implementation of 
> OpenSource tools for such purposes that very little has been 
> published.
> I would be very grateful for your kind assistance in becoming 
> acquaintedwith what has been done in the field by Community 
> members; I will appreciate
> any published materials (pdf, electronic or other), backchannel e-
mail
> exchange or any information concerning possible partcipation in 
> conferencesorganized by Community members as well as instructions 
> on how to contribute
> projects to the future Foundation.
> 
> New to the group, I would like to humbly ask for initial guidance 
> concerningthe netiquette and customs of the Community.
> 
> With all my best regards,
> 
> Tomash
> (Tomasz Adamczewski)
> Department of Information Technology
> Karol Adamiecki Higher School of Economics
> ul. 1 MAJA 50
> 40-287 KATOWICE
> POLAND
> tadamcz at ae.katowice.pl
>