From: Paolo C. <cav...@fa...> - 2006-10-06 07:56:41
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 > - -- Paolo Cavallini email+jabber: cav...@fa... www.faunalia.it Piazza Garibaldi 5 - 56025 Pontedera (PI), Italy Tel: (+39)348-3801953 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD4DBQFFJgwu/NedwLUzIr4RAjmaAJYq1gvsu1ZNGWnRo0mVbdQOvnuIAJ0QN6VQ f7cv1+MOGsl30oANgzKylA== =ysHL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |