My aim would be to have a complete online tutorial for QGIS/GRASS
that includes:
1. A general introduction to GIS concepts: layers, projections,
data types etc.
2. A general introduction to QGIS, GRASS and the QGIS-GRASS plugin
3. A text on data import and export for QGIS and GRASS
4. An advanced text on general geoprocessing with GRASS: details
of the topology model, DBMS connections, interpolations etc.
5. An introduction to GRASS shell scripting
6. Modules explaining the use of GRASS in different scenarios:
- environmental planning
- remote sensing
- archaeology
- 3D visualizaton (using Paraview)
- spatial statistics (using R)
- ...
these could also include exercises for use in class rooms.
7. a definitive reference version of QGIS and GRASS as native
Windows (perhaps also other OSs) to be used for the tutorial
instructions and exercises
8. add-ons with precompiled binaries for functionality needed
only for specific modules (e.g. archaeology)
9. sample data sets for all modules
*
I have draft texts for 1,2,3,4 (partly), 5 and would be willing to
contribute them. I would be also willing to write a tutorial module
on data processing with GRASS for archaeology.
But I do not have the time or resource to set up an appropriate
website and administer this.
I know this is sort of a lengthy list, but I feel that newcomers
to GRASS are currently facing a hard time trying to gather all of this
information and software together.
If we want GRASS to spread more quickly, we need to make access to
it easier!
Benjamin
Otto Dassau wrote:
Hi,
I also like the idea of creating a standard set of beginner exercises for GRASS
and QGIS and I have also made the experience that QGIS is easier to teach in beginner courses. There already exist a lot of documentation and other
material on several pages offering plenty of manuals, books and
tutorials/courses:
GRASS Documentation Project
-> http://grass.itc.it/gdp/index.php
GRASS 6 Tutorial
-> http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/Documents
QGIS User and Installation Guide
-> http://qgis.org/releases/userguide.pdf
-> http://qgis.org/releases/install.pdf
+ QGIS and GRASS Data, Howtos, Wiki ...
So what do you think is useful? Ready to go exercises and examples with
data for standardized training courses with standard certificates? This was
already discussed some time ago and is still important and interesting.
Maybe it would make sense to add further topics to existing material?
If we assume, that QGIS is prefered by most newcomers, we could start from the QGIS side and include GRASS exercises partly via GRASS-Plugin?
There already exists an official user guide in latex within svn. So it can be
easily translated and converted into several formats (PDF, HTML, ...). We could
add a couple of new chapters with exercises for beginners.
For GRASS it seems to be more difficult. There is a lot more documentation and
material but mostly without relation to each other. We would probably have to
find a basis first and definde is as a standard.
what do you think?
best wishes,
Otto
On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 09:56:30 +0200
Paolo Cavallini <cavallini@faunalia.it> wrote:
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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?
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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