From: Radim B. <rad...@gm...> - 2006-10-06 10:20:06
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On 10/6/06, Paolo Cavallini <cav...@fa...> wrote: > 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? I wrote some recipes in GRASS/QGIS Cookbook: http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/GrassCookbook that was inteded for autodidacts, not for courses, but hopefully some materials could be shared? Radim > 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----- > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > Qgi...@li... > http://lists.qgis.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > |