looking for introductory material on cartography

[giohappy]

I'm going to teach a course (mostly as volunteer time) on GIS basics
and GPS surveying for an ONG in Africa. The first two days they will
self-teach cartography basics, then I'll begin from GIS, etc. They
asked me if I could indicate them some links to free introductory
material on cartography (earth shape, coordinates, maps, reference
systems, projections, etc.).
Does anybody know web resources, or could share copyleft
tutorials/manuals/etc on the subject? I've found something googling,
from wikipedia to some sparse course chapters, but I would like to
find structured, clean and easy, stuff. Am I asking too much?

Thanks very much,
Giovanni
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[nimalika fernando-2]

Hi,

I was involved in doing some introductory level GIS unit ( not for geography people) in Asia last year. 
Once I was asked to do that course, I faced the same situation as you. We are working under very tight cost constraints and cannot use costly material or ask people to use such.
I have prepared some presentations for the course  with lot of supporting material from freely available web resources/ diagrams etc. That does not cover sufficient level of GPS surveying .

There are few basic level tutorials I have prepared  on using software to prepare maps also. I have used QGIS /Udig as the software.

Do you like to have a look at them ?

If so I may be able to provide an access code for this material available in their website.  You may use them if useful for your purpose.
Goodluck!

Nimalika

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 2:35 PM, G. Allegri <[hidden email]> wrote:

I'm going to teach a course (mostly as volunteer time) on GIS basics
and GPS surveying for an ONG in Africa. The first two days they will
self-teach cartography basics, then I'll begin from GIS, etc. They
asked me if I could indicate them some links to free introductory
material on cartography (earth shape, coordinates, maps, reference
systems, projections, etc.).
Does anybody know web resources, or could share copyleft
tutorials/manuals/etc on the subject? I've found something googling,
from wikipedia to some sparse course chapters, but I would like to
find structured, clean and easy, stuff. Am I asking too much?

Thanks very much,
Giovanni
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You may wish to look at some of the materials coming out of the the FOSS4G conference; I think the "making maps pretty" workshop will be up shortly as a PDF for example and it has an overview of the cartography/communication side of maps.

Jody

On 30/10/2009, at 9:06 PM, nimalika fernando wrote:

Hi,

I was involved in doing some introductory level GIS unit ( not for geography people) in Asia last year. 
Once I was asked to do that course, I faced the same situation as you. We are working under very tight cost constraints and cannot use costly material or ask people to use such.
I have prepared some presentations for the course  with lot of supporting material from freely available web resources/ diagrams etc. That does not cover sufficient level of GPS surveying .

There are few basic level tutorials I have prepared  on using software to prepare maps also. I have used QGIS /Udig as the software.

Do you like to have a look at them ?

If so I may be able to provide an access code for this material available in their website.  You may use them if useful for your purpose.
Goodluck!

Nimalika

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 2:35 PM, G. Allegri <[hidden email]> wrote:

I'm going to teach a course (mostly as volunteer time) on GIS basics
and GPS surveying for an ONG in Africa. The first two days they will
self-teach cartography basics, then I'll begin from GIS, etc. They
asked me if I could indicate them some links to free introductory
material on cartography (earth shape, coordinates, maps, reference
systems, projections, etc.).
Does anybody know web resources, or could share copyleft
tutorials/manuals/etc on the subject? I've found something googling,
from wikipedia to some sparse course chapters, but I would like to
find structured, clean and easy, stuff. Am I asking too much?

Thanks very much,
Giovanni
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[giohappy]

Thanks you very much for your replies.
Nimalika, I would really like to have a look at your material. I'm
mostly interested in cartography basics, but a look at the rest would
be helpful too. I will produce ad-hoc presentations on GIS (and Qgis
usage) and GPS, and I could share them after the course.

Jody, thank's for the tip. I will wait for foss4g material.

giovanni

2009/10/30 Jody Garnett <[hidden email]>:

> You may wish to look at some of the materials coming out of the the FOSS4G
> conference; I think the "making maps pretty" workshop will be up shortly as
> a PDF for example and it has an overview of the cartography/communication
> side of maps.
> Jody
> On 30/10/2009, at 9:06 PM, nimalika fernando wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I was involved in doing some introductory level GIS unit ( not for geography
> people) in Asia last year.
> Once I was asked to do that course, I faced the same situation as you. We
> are working under very tight cost constraints and cannot use costly material
> or ask people to use such.
> I have prepared some presentations for the course  with lot of supporting
> material from freely available web resources/ diagrams etc. That does not
> cover sufficient level of GPS surveying .
>
> There are few basic level tutorials I have prepared  on using software to
> prepare maps also. I have used QGIS /Udig as the software.
>
> Do you like to have a look at them ?
>
> If so I may be able to provide an access code for this material available in
> their website.  You may use them if useful for your purpose.
> Goodluck!
>
> Nimalika
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 2:35 PM, G. Allegri <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>> I'm going to teach a course (mostly as volunteer time) on GIS basics
>> and GPS surveying for an ONG in Africa. The first two days they will
>> self-teach cartography basics, then I'll begin from GIS, etc. They
>> asked me if I could indicate them some links to free introductory
>> material on cartography (earth shape, coordinates, maps, reference
>> systems, projections, etc.).
>> Does anybody know web resources, or could share copyleft
>> tutorials/manuals/etc on the subject? I've found something googling,
>> from wikipedia to some sparse course chapters, but I would like to
>> find structured, clean and easy, stuff. Am I asking too much?
>>
>> Thanks very much,
>> Giovanni
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[Ian Turton]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 5:05 AM, G. Allegri <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I'm going to teach a course (mostly as volunteer time) on GIS basics
> and GPS surveying for an ONG in Africa. The first two days they will
> self-teach cartography basics, then I'll begin from GIS, etc. They
> asked me if I could indicate them some links to free introductory
> material on cartography (earth shape, coordinates, maps, reference
> systems, projections, etc.).
> Does anybody know web resources, or could share copyleft
> tutorials/manuals/etc on the subject? I've found something googling,
> from wikipedia to some sparse course chapters, but I would like to
> find structured, clean and easy, stuff. Am I asking too much?
>

How  about https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog486/? It's CC BY NC SA

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[giohappy]

Thnaks Ian. That's a really interesting material, but it's out of our
course scope. I need something about basic geodesy, coordinates
systems, etc.

thank you anyway.
giovanni

ps: wouldn't it be useful to gather such introductory resources under
the Education and Curriculum pages of the OSGeo wiki [1]?

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Education_and_Curriculum_Committee

2009/10/30 Ian Turton <[hidden email]>:

> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 5:05 AM, G. Allegri <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> I'm going to teach a course (mostly as volunteer time) on GIS basics
>> and GPS surveying for an ONG in Africa. The first two days they will
>> self-teach cartography basics, then I'll begin from GIS, etc. They
>> asked me if I could indicate them some links to free introductory
>> material on cartography (earth shape, coordinates, maps, reference
>> systems, projections, etc.).
>> Does anybody know web resources, or could share copyleft
>> tutorials/manuals/etc on the subject? I've found something googling,
>> from wikipedia to some sparse course chapters, but I would like to
>> find structured, clean and easy, stuff. Am I asking too much?
>>
>
> How  about https://www.e-education.psu.edu/geog486/? It's CC BY NC SA
>
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[Charlie Schweik]

Giovanni,

G. Allegri wrote:
> Thnaks Ian. That's a really interesting material, but it's out of our
> course scope. I need something about basic geodesy, coordinates
> systems, etc.
>  
Giovanni,
I'm going to send you something separate that I have but I haven't
checked the content fully to make sure I can publish it on the OSGeo edu
inventory page.

> ps: wouldn't it be useful to gather such introductory resources under
> the Education and Curriculum pages of the OSGeo wiki [1]?
>
> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Education_and_Curriculum_Committee
>  
Yes, it would. This relates to our discussion about developing some
OSGeo curriculum material. This next week, I'm going to send out a call
on the OSGeo edu list to see if we can hold one or more online
discussions about how to move in this direction. I'm also going to try
and get some funding to hold, sometime in the next year, a face-to-face
workshop for some of us to meet and work on a curriculum. Anyone
interested in joining this please subscribe to the OSGeo education and
curriculum list.

Cheers
Charlie Schweik


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On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 6:52 PM, G. Allegri <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Thnaks Ian. That's a really interesting material, but it's out of our
> course scope. I need something about basic geodesy, coordinates
> systems, etc.
>

ah geography not cartography - try
https://www.e-education.psu.edu/natureofgeoinfo/ (browse all the PSU
offerings at http://open.ems.psu.edu/courseware)

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[Craig Miller-6]

I didn't see what the original link was, but the Geographer's Craft is an
excellent resource http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/notes/notes.html

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> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 6:52 PM, G. Allegri <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > Thnaks Ian. That's a really interesting material, but it's out of our
> > course scope. I need something about basic geodesy, coordinates
> > systems, etc.
> >
>
> ah geography not cartography - try
> https://www.e-education.psu.edu/natureofgeoinfo/ (browse all the PSU
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[giohappy]

Thanks everyone again for the response my request has had. I didn't
hope in so much sharing :)
It's been important for the ngo itself to recognize the value of this
community and it's "open source mind".

I will share the blog I'm going to setup for the course, in which I
will also gather your materials (with the respective citings) and the
one I will prepare.

I'll let you know.
Have a good week,
Giovanni

2009/10/31 Craig Miller <[hidden email]>:

> I didn't see what the original link was, but the Geographer's Craft is an
> excellent resource http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/notes/notes.html
>
> Craig
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>> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 6:52 PM, G. Allegri <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> > Thnaks Ian. That's a really interesting material, but it's out of our
>> > course scope. I need something about basic geodesy, coordinates
>> > systems, etc.
>> >
>>
>> ah geography not cartography - try
>> https://www.e-education.psu.edu/natureofgeoinfo/ (browse all the PSU
>> offerings at http://open.ems.psu.edu/courseware)
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[giohappy]

I've added myself to
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Education_and_Curriculum_Committee#Membership
Hope to be able to give a help.

giovanni

2009/10/31 Charlie Schweik <[hidden email]>:

> Giovanni,
>
> G. Allegri wrote:
>>
>> Thnaks Ian. That's a really interesting material, but it's out of our
>> course scope. I need something about basic geodesy, coordinates
>> systems, etc.
>>
>
> Giovanni,
> I'm going to send you something separate that I have but I haven't checked
> the content fully to make sure I can publish it on the OSGeo edu inventory
> page.
>
>> ps: wouldn't it be useful to gather such introductory resources under
>> the Education and Curriculum pages of the OSGeo wiki [1]?
>>
>> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Education_and_Curriculum_Committee
>>
>
> Yes, it would. This relates to our discussion about developing some OSGeo
> curriculum material. This next week, I'm going to send out a call on the
> OSGeo edu list to see if we can hold one or more online discussions about
> how to move in this direction. I'm also going to try and get some funding to
> hold, sometime in the next year, a face-to-face workshop for some of us to
> meet and work on a curriculum. Anyone interested in joining this please
> subscribe to the OSGeo education and curriculum list.
>
> Cheers
> Charlie Schweik
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G. Allegri wrote:
> I've added myself to
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Education_and_Curriculum_Committee#Membership
> Hope to be able to give a help.
>
> giovanni
>  
Terrific! Thanks Giovanni. I hope others on this list who have an
interest in collaborating on educational curriculum and material and who
are not on the education group list will do the same. The recent
postings of links to material are examples of the knowledge out there
that needs to be collected in some more organized way. I also encourage
each local OSGeo group to have a representative on this list, as well as
each software team.

Finally, in another effort to try and enhance communication on
educational issues, we have started an OSGeo educational blog page [1].
I'm acting as the "editor" of that blog -- but if anyone has OSGeo
educational-related content you'd like me to put on the blog, send them
to me with a subject line "For OSGeo edu blog".

Charlie Schweik
(OSGeo education group chair)

[1] http://www.osgeo.org/blog/510

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