[OpenGeoscience] Rafael workshop idea

[Margherita Di Leo]

Dear Rafael,

 

thank you for your email. I take the liberty to forward it to the
opengeoscience mailing list, because it is of general interest. During the
last virtual meeting, it has been discussed about the opportunity to propose
one single course covering several projects, starting from osgeolive, or
rather proposing more than one short course. The opinions were different.
Someone also pointed out that there are so many events going on at EGU, that
it is hard to involve the people for more than a course. However, after all
it is not up to us to decide, but the organizers of EGU will approve or not
the proposed courses. My suggestion is indeed that you guys propose the
course to EGU, and the opengeoscience group support the initiative with the
broader publicity. As far as I'm concerned, I find your proposal very
interesting and I would myself be interested in attending the courses. I
would probably not attend if the course was less specific and also covering
other software, because from my experience it is difficult to enter into
detail and actually take home some real experience, if the topic is too
general. This is why I believe it is a good thing to keep the postgis short
course separated from the osgeolive one. On the other hand, people
approaching osgeolive for the first time might be more attracted by other
software, perhaps desktop GIS, or geospatial libraries, and would not bear a
detailed presentation of postgis. But this is my opinion, and I'd like to
hear also others'. In the meanwhile, I'd invite you (Rafael) to add your
idea in the wiki page at
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Open_Geoscience_Committee#Activities

 

Thank you

Best regards,

Margherita

 

 

From: Moreno-sanchez, Rafael [mailto:Rafael.Moreno at ucdenver.edu] 
Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2015 11:15 PM
To: 'Margherita Di Leo' <margherita.di-leo at jrc.ec.europa.eu>
Cc: Oliveira, Ricardo P <RICARDO.OLIVEIRA at ucdenver.edu>
Subject: Rafael workshop idea

 

Hi Margherita, 

Following some of the email I have seen. I noticed that more specific ideas
for workshop contend were circulated. 

Here are some from us.

 

Two levels depending on audience and interest:

 

BASIC LEVEL

Introduction to PostGIS - Common GIS tasks in a Relational Database
Management System (RDBMS)

 

This workshop provides an introduction to PostGIS and basic RDBMS concepts.
Attendees will explore how simple SQL queries can perform powerful spatial
operations in a database system. This workshop will focus on vector data.

 

INTERMEDIATE LEVEL

Intermediate PostGIS - The Vector and Raster workflow

 

This workshop will focus on more advanced composite SQL queries, how to
combine different PostGIS functions to extend the capabilities and get the
best performance possible. This workshop will also explore how PostGIS can
be used to develop raster analysis. The workshop will also demonstrate how
to use some GDAL functions for data pre-processing.

 

 

 

_______________________________________________________

Rafael Moreno, Ph.D.

Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences

University of Colorado Denver

Office: North Classroom 3524, Auraria Campus

Campus Box 172

1200 Larimer Street NC 3524

Denver, CO 80204

Phone: 303-352-3762

Fax 303-556-6197

 

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