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Please provide information on your educational content following the below structure. You can either (1) edit this page and copy the template metatags and enter your information, or (2) send your information to me (cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu).

Important note: None of the content listed below is considered "official" OSGeo material, and none of it has been peer-reviewed by anyone affiliated with OSGeo. At this juncture, we are simply trying to inventory educational material that is available through our participant community. Anything of interest to the OSGeo education community is welcome.

Indices are available for this content, sorting by both Language and Application. Please keep these indices up to date, as the inventory has become far too large to find things in without them.

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TITLE

  • Author Name:
  • Affiliation:
  • URL:
  • Description:
  • Keywords:
  • Date published:
  • License:
  • Target audience: K-12; undergraduate; graduate; mid-career; other (please specify)
  • Language:
  • Relevant software:
  • Willing to publish on OSGeo's future content platform? (yes/not)
  • Module source format: e.g., Latex, Docbook, Open Office Writer, etc.
  • Additional comments:

OSGeo Educational Content -- COLLEAGUES, PLEASE ADD YOUR CONTENT HERE

OSGEO 2005: Open Source Python GIS Hacks

Introduction to FOSS GIS using QGIS .8, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, and the Grass plugin for QGIS

GRASS Workshops presented at FOSS4G2006

  • Authors Names: Otto Dassau, Paolo Zatelli, Stephan Holl, Jachym Cepicky, Roger Bivand, Markus Neteler, Helena Mitasova, Maria Brovelli, Roberto Antolin, Massimo Cuomo, Soeren Gebbert
  • Affiliations: GDF Hannover, University Trento, Norges Handelshøyskole, ITC-irst Trento; NCSU Raleigh NC USA;Politecnico di Milano - Polo Regionale di Como; ACS Rome, TU Berlin
  • URL:[GRASS wiki http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/GRASS_related_workshops_and_presentations]
  • Description: Slides and LiveCD with software and data for five GRASS-related workshops presented at FOSS4G2007, includes beginner and more advanced aterial
  • Keywords: GRASS, DBMS, R, image processing, lidar, visualization, paraview
  • Date published: September 2006
  • Licence: CC
  • Target Audience: one workshop is for beginners, rest is for more advanced users
  • language: English
  • Relevant software: GRASS, R, QGIS, GDAL, PostGIS, paraview
  • Willing to publish on OSGeo's future content platform? yes, but it will need update.
  • Comments: the material resides at FOSS4G2006 web site accessible through the wiki page listed above,CDROM ISO is here: http://198.202.74.220/foss4g/

Geographic Information Systems A (1)

Introduction to GRASS GIS and QGIS for newcomers

  • Author Name(s): Markus Neteler
  • Affilation: FEM-CEA, Trento, Italy
  • URL: http://mpa.itc.it/markus/como2006/
  • Description: PDF and HTML slides of course with practical examples based on GRASS 6 and QGIS 0.8 using the Spearfish 6.0 dataset.
  • Keywords: GRASS, QGIS, GIS, raster and vector processing, visualization, remote sensing
  • Date published: 2006
  • License: Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike
  • Target audience: GIS Newcomers, GRASS/QGIS newcomers, plus some advanced parts
  • Language: English
  • Relevant software: GRASS 6+, QGIS 0.8+
  • Willing to publish on OSGeo's future content platform? (yes/no): yes
  • Additional comments:

Open Web Mapping

  • Author Name(s): Ian Turton
  • Affilation: Penn State, USA
  • URL: https://courseware.e-education.psu.edu/courses/geog585/content/home.html
  • Description: Master's level course introducing open standard and open source web mapping using a Java stack (GeoServer, MapBuilder)
  • Keywords: Web Mapping, GeoServer, MapBuilder, OGC, standards, wms, wfs, gml, sld
  • Date published: 2007
  • License: Penn State OER Open Source License
  • Target audience: Professional GIS users with no experience of web mapping
  • Language: English
  • Relevant software: GeoServer, MapBuilder
  • Willing to publish on OSGeo's future content platform? (yes/no): maybe
  • Additional comments:

Training Notes on Spatial Data Sharing using FOSS

  • Authors Names:Venkatesh Raghavan, Shinji Masumoto, Sarawut Ninsawat, Daisuke Yoshida, Susumu Nonogaki, Go Yonezawa and Nguyen Hoa Binh
    • Affilation: Osaka City University, Japan
  • URL: http://gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/moodle/course/view.php?id=15
  • Description: Master's level course introducing Installing Linux Server, Mapserver, Mapbender, Mapbuilder, Ka-map,PostgreSQL, PostGIS, QGIS and GRASS. (Comes with install CD for Mandriva Linex 2006)
  • Keywords: Web Mapping,Mapserver, MapBuilder, Mapbender, Cartoweb, ka-map, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, QGIS, GRASS, Data Creation, wms
  • Date published: 2007
  • License: Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike (Presently under GNU FDL)
  • Target audience: GIS users with no experience of web mapping
  • Language: English
  • Relevant software: Mandriva Linux, Mapserver, Mapbender, Mapbuilder, Ka-map,PostgreSQL, PostGIS, QGIS and GRASS
  • Willing to publish on OSGeo's future content platform? (yes/no): yes
  • Additional comments:

Introduction to GRASS on Cygwin (GRASS GIS6.1の利用)

  • Authors Names:Masumoto Shinji, Venkatesh Raghavan and Susumu Nonogaki
  • Affilation: Osaka City University, Japan
  • URL: http://gisws.media.osaka-cu.ac.jp/moodle/course/view.php?id=11
  • Description: Undergraduate level course introducing GRASS GIS on Cygwin
  • Keywords: GRASS GIS
  • Date published: 2007
  • License: Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike
  • Target audience: GIS users with little experience on using maps
  • Language: Japanese
  • Relevant software: Cygwin, GRASS
  • Willing to publish on OSGeo's future content platform? (yes/no): yes
  • Additional comments:

Introduction to GIS using GRASS

  • Authors Names:Masumoto Shinji, Venkatesh Raghavan
  • Affilation: Osaka City University, Japan
  • URL: http://www.sci.osaka-cu.ac.jp/~masumoto/vuniv2000/index.html
  • Description: Undergraduate/Graduate level course introducing GRASS GIS. 12 Modules of Lecture and 12 modules of practicals.
  • Keywords: GRASS GIS
  • Date published: 2000
  • License: Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike
  • Target audience: GIS users with little experience on using maps
  • Language: Japanese
  • Relevant software: GRASS GIS
  • Willing to publish on OSGeo's future content platform? (yes/no): yes
  • Additional comments: The contents are old and need to be updated for recent version of GRASS.

Introduction to Mapbender

  • Author Name(s): Sven Böhnme, Arnulf Christl, Astrid Emde
  • Affilation: WhereGroup
  • URL: http://osgeo.net/moodle
  • Description: Intioductory course to web mapping with OGC, managing OGC web services, managing user access, OGC WMS service metadata
  • Keywords: Mapbender, Web Mapping, OGC WMS, OGC WFS, OGC WFS-T, OWS Context, GML, KML, Security, Proxy, User Management
  • Date published: 2007
  • License: Creative Commons Sharealike 2.0
  • Target audience: Geospatial Data Infrastructure (GDI, SDI) operators, GIS administrators, Service broker, geodata producer
  • Language: English
  • Relevant software: Mapbender, MapServer, GeoServer, Apache, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, Firefox, Microsoft Internet Exploder
  • Willing to publish on OSGeo's future content platform? Yes (it already is)
  • Additional comments: Students must have an OSGeo account to be able to access course material; The course builds on the OSGeo Mapbender portal at http://mapbender.telascience.org which (unfortunately still) needs a separate account that can be created there.

GRASS Tutorial

  • Author Names: Marco Ciolli, Paolo Zatelli, Alfonso Vitti, Fabio Zottele, Clara Tattoni
  • Affiliation: GIS Lab at University of Trento, Italy
  • URL: http://www.ing.unitn.it/~grass/docs/tutorial_62/index.html
  • Description: GRASS HTML Tutorial, based on freely available (and distributable) data. The structure of this tutorial is functional both for a new GRASS user and for a GRASS expert. The purpose of this work is to simplify the first approaches to GRASS, trough a series of examples and practical environmental applications of this GIS. Data is the free data set Spearfish60 downloadable from official GRASS website. A troubleshooting FAQ page is also available.
  • Keywords: GRASS, raster, vector and network processing, 3D visualisation, nviz, DBMS
  • Date published: last update September 2008
  • License:CC Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5
  • Target audience: beginner or intermediate GIS users
  • Language: Italian and English
  • Relevant software: GRASS 6.2, nviz, PostgreSQL, PostGIS
  • Willing to publish on OSGeo's future content platform? yes
  • Additional comments: English version updated!

Tutorial for wildlife habitat suitability evaluation using GRASS and FOSS

  • Author Names: Clara Tattoni and Damiano G. Preatoni
  • Affilation:University of Trento, University of Insubria Varese, Italy
  • URL: http://fauna.dipbsf.uninsubria.it/didattica/SIT/materiale/esercitazione_MVA_GRASS.tar.gz
  • Description: tar.gz package containing a HTML tutorial and relative dataset. This tutorial that can be followed during class or for self-education. Two examples are proposed in order to evaluate the habitat suitability for 2 mammal species, based on presence data and environmental variables using GRASS for geographic analysis and R for statistics.
  • Keywords: GRASS, R, habitat, wildlife management
  • Date published: January 2007
  • License: CC
  • Target audience: undergraduate or graduate students in Biology, Environmental and Natural Sciences, with a background in GIS
  • Language: Italian
  • Relevant software: GRASS, R, QGIS
  • Willing to publish on OSGeo's future content platform? yes
  • Additional comments: original title is 'Elaborazione di modelli di idoneità del territorio per la fauna'


FOSS4G 2007 GRASS and RDBMS Workshop DVD

  • Author Names: Paolo Zatelli
  • Affiliation: University of Trento, Italy
  • URL: http://www.ing.unitn.it/~grass/software/FOSS4G2007_GRASS_RDBMS_DVD.html
  • Description: a DVD based on Kubuntu 7.0 containing slides, programs and data for the FOSS4G 2007 GRASS and DBMS Workshop, Victoria, Canada.
  • Keywords: GRASS, DBMS
  • Date published: September 2007
  • License: CC
  • Target audience: advanced user
  • Language: English
  • Relevant software: GRASS GIS 6.2.1, QGIS 0.8.1 with GRASS plugin, PostgreSQL 8.1.8, PostGIS 1.1.6 and pgAdminIII 1.4.3
  • Willing to publish on OSGeo's future content platform? yes
  • Additional comments: The workshop slides are included in the DVD but they can be also downloaded in Pdf directly here.

Italian GRASS DVD 2.0

  • Author Names: Marco Ciolli, Paolo Zatelli, Alfonso Vitti, Fabio Zottele, Clara Tattoni
  • Affiliation: University of Trento, Italy
  • URL: http://www.ing.unitn.it/~grass/software/GRASS_DVDit.html
  • Description: Kubuntu live DVD in Italian with various FOSS4G software and GRASS 6.2 tutorial in italian; Kubuntu installer in Italian; GRASS 6.2 for Windows with Cygwin; Qgis 0.8.0 for Windows and other FOSS programs for Windows and relative documentation;
  • Keywords: Linux, Windows, misc FOSS
  • Date published: June 2007
  • License:CC
  • Target audience: beginner and advanced users
  • Language: Italian
  • Relevant software:GRASS GIS 6.2.1, QGIS 0.8.1 with GRASS plugin, PostgreSQL 8.1.8, PostGIS 1.1.6, pgAdminIII 1.4.3 and lots more
  • Willing to publish on OSGeo's future content platform? yes
  • Additional comments:

GIS and Digital Cartography slides

  • Author Names: Paolo Zatelli, Battista Benciolini and Marco Ciolli
  • Affiliation: University of Trento, Italy
  • URL: http://www.ing.unitn.it/~zatelli/cartografia_numerica.html
  • Description: Slides from university course in PDF format, organised per lessons
  • Keywords: GIS, GRASS, FOSS
  • Date published: 2007
  • License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
  • Target audience: undergraduate students
  • Language: Italian
  • Relevant software: GRASS, Mapserver, PostgreSQL
  • Willing to publish on OSGeo's future content platform? yes
  • Additional comments: some slides are password protected, to get one follow the instructions on course home page

OpenJUMP: introduction and exercises

  • Author Name: Diego Magni
  • Affiliation: Politecnico di Milano, Campus Como
  • URL: http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/corsi/sw_gis/ [Laboratorio di Geomatica website]
  • Description: Practical notes about OpenJUMP (Italian titles: "OpenJUMP, introduzione" and "OpenJUMP, esercizi")
  • Keywords: GIS, desktop GIS
  • Date published: January, 2007
  • License: Creative Commons by-nc-sa (Attribution, Non commercial, Share alike)
  • Target audience: undergraduate students, beginner or intermediate GIS students
  • Language: Italian
  • Relevant software: OpenJUMP
  • Willing to publish on OSGeo's future content platform? yes
  • Additional comments: Slides of Practical lessons of the course "Digital Cartography" - Environmental Engineering - Politecnico di Milano - Campus Como (Prof.ssa Brovelli)

QGIS tutorial

  • Author Name: Clara Tattoni
  • Affiliation: University of Trento, Italy
  • URL: http://www.ing.unitn.it/~grass/docs/tutorial_qgis/qgis.html
  • Description: Self-education tutorial for learning how to visualise, query, edit and print maps with QGIS, plus an introduction to grass plugin. Based on the free data set Spearfish60.
  • Keywords: QGIS, GIS
  • Date published: february 2007, last update june 2008
  • License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
  • Target audience: undergraduate students, beginner GIS students
  • Language: Italian
  • Relevant software: GRASS 6.2, GIS 0.10, grass-plugin
  • Willing to publish on OSGeo's future content platform? yes
  • Additional comments:

Open Source Geospatial Information Technologies and Introduction to GIS

  • Author Name: Karl Kent Benedict, Ph.D.
  • Affiliation: Earth Data Analysis Center, University of New Mexico
  • URL: Open Source Geospatial Information Technologies / Introduction to GIS
  • Description: Class materials related to Dr. Benedict's survey of Open Source Geographic Information Technologies taught through UNM's Geography Department.
  • Keywords: GRASS, OGR/GDAL, POSTGIS
  • Date published: unknown
  • License: unknown
  • Target audience: students
  • Language: English
  • Relevant software: GRASS, OGR/GDAL, POSTGIS
  • Willing to publish on OSGeo's future content platform? (yes/not)
  • Additional comments:

Image Exploration using OpenEV

  • Author Name: Ned Horning
  • Affiliation: American Museum of Natural History's Center for Biodiversity Conservation
  • URL: http://biodiversityinformatics.amnh.org/index.php?section=osr_cbc_tutorials&mid=19
  • Description: Tutorial introducing fundamental capabililties of OpenEV
  • Keywords: OpenEV, FWTools, image processing, remote sensing
  • Date published: 2006
  • License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
  • Target audience: high school and college students and conservation practitioners
  • Language: English
  • Relevant software: OpenEV, FWTools
  • Willing to publish on OSGeo's future content platform? yes
  • Additional comments: can go on DVD

Introduction to the Event Visualization Tool (eVis)

  • Author Name: Kevin Koy
  • Affiliation: American Museum of Natural History's Center for Biodiversity Conservation
  • URL: http://biodiversityinformatics.amnh.org/index.php?section=con_mon_tutorials&mid=20
  • Description: Tutorial for using the Event Visualization Tool (eVis) - a plugin for QGIS - which allows a user to link geographic coordinates to photos or other images in QGIS.
  • Keywords: eVis, QGIS, hotlink, hyperlink,
  • Date published: 2007
  • License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
  • Target audience: high school and college students and conservation practitioners
  • Language: English
  • Relevant software: eVis, QGIS
  • Willing to publish on OSGeo's future content platform? yes
  • Additional comments: can go on DVD - See the eVis page for more information about what it can do: http://biodiversityinformatics.amnh.org/open_source/evis/index.php?mid=21

Geographic Informations System for Environmental Planning and Management

  • Author Name: Various, unclear
  • Affiliation: Miriam College, Philippines
  • URL: http://epmgis.wikispaces.com/ Syllabus PDF
  • Description: This wikispaces is intended for the online management of exercises and materials for the course Geographic Informations System for Environmental Planning and Management. Includes general GIS as well as specific software project/tutorials. Provides nicely formatted PDF files for printing.
  • Keywords: environmental planning, GIS, QGIS, livecd
  • Date published: 2007
  • License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5
  • Target audience: college students
  • Language: English
  • Relevant software: QGIS
  • Willing to publish on OSGeo's future content platform? Unsure.. following up
  • Additional comments: I saw this announced on the OSGeo Spanish mailing list, am waiting to get the right contact for the project to learn more.

Introduction to QGIS 0.9 and GRASS 6.2

  • Author Name: Scott Mitchell
  • Affiliation: Carleton University
  • URL: http://cemml.carleton.ca/osgeo_files/QGISandGRASStutorial.pdf
  • Description: Introductory tutorial designed for workshop use, concentrates on analysis, and integration of GRASS with QGIS
  • Keywords: GRASS QGIS plug-in spatial analysis
  • Date published: March 24, 2008
  • License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5
  • Target audience: Familiar with GIS, but not with this specific software
  • Language: English
  • Relevant software: GRASS 6.2+, QGIS 0.9+
  • Willing to publish on OSGeo's future content platform? yes
  • Additional comments: Under ongoing use at Carleton / OSGEO-Ottawa, so hopefully ;) will stay updated

Introduction to GIS: QGIS, GRASS & R

  • Author Name: Richard Plant PhD
  • Affiliation: University of California, Davis
  • URL: http://www.plantsciences.ucdavis.edu/plant/qgislabs.htm
  • Description: Tutorials for QGIS intended for an introduction to GIS course.
  • Keywords: QGIS, GRASS, R
  • Date published: May 6, 2008
  • License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
  • Target audience: undergraduate & graduate
  • Language: English
  • Relevant software: QGIS, GRASS, R
  • Willing to publish on OSGeo's future content platform? N/A
  • Additional comments: Optional labs that correspond with ArcGIS labs

Using the CORINE2000 data base with GRASS under Ubuntu-linux 8.04

Οδηγός αξιοποίησης της βάσης δεδομένων CORINE2000 με το GRASS υπό το Ubuntu-Linux 8.04

  • Author Name: Nikos Alexandris
  • Affiliation: University of Freiburg, Germany
  • URL: http://tilaphos.googlepages.com/CORINE_withGRASS_gr.pdf
  • Description: How to use the CORINE2000 land cover data base with GRASS under Ubuntu-Linux
  • Keywords: CORINE, GRASS, SQLite Data Base Browser, Ubuntu 8.04
  • Date published: May 28, 2008
  • License: -
  • Target audience: Greek GRASS users/ Έλληνες χρήστες του GRASS
  • Language: Greek/ Ελληνικά
  • Relevant software: GRASS, SQLite Data Base Browser
  • Willing to publish on OSGeo's future content platform? Yes
  • Additional comments: Published in blog Τήλαφος

Spanish Free GIS Book

  • Main authors:
  • Affiliation: Spanish Language Local Chapter
  • URL: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Libro_SIG
  • Description: From Spanish_Chapter_Report_2007: The Free GIS Book is one of the most important initiatives of the Spanish Local Chapter. With the leadership of Víctor Olaya, a group of authors have organized a common effort to create a book about Geographical Information Systems from the theoretical point of view, agnostic of any specific software and covering the main areas of that discipline. This is a Free content project, using a Creative Commons license (2.5 CC-BY-SA) and supported by OSGeo infrastructures.
  • Keywords: book, GIS, cartography, DTM, analysis, SDI
  • Date published: not yet
  • License: CC-BY-SA 2.5
  • Target audience: graduate (polish)
  • Language: Spanish
  • Relevant software: intentionally, the FGB is not linked with any specific software but it has a chapter related with FOSS4G and privative software.
  • Willing to publish on OSGeo's future content platform? yes, at this time it's on the OSGeo SVN
  • Module source format: e.g., Latex
  • Additional comments: at this time, work is almost stopped but there are a huge amount of work done that could be used/translated/adapted

Kartografia Internetowa - Internet Cartography (in polish)

  • Author Name: Michał Rzeszewski
  • Affiliation: Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland
  • URL: http://www.earthisflat.net/ki
  • Description: Web mapping basics based on Mapserver CGI environment. Podstawy kartografii internetowej w oparciu o środowisko Mapservera. Skrypt do zajęć wraz z przykładowymi ćwiczeniami i danymi.
  • Date published: June 16, 2008
  • License: CC-BY-SA 2.5
  • Target audience: graduate
  • Language: Polish
  • Relevant software: Mapserver, partially QGIS
  • Willing to publish on OSGeo's future content platform? yes
  • Module source format: html

Quantum GIS tutorial - Kurs Quantum GIS

  • Author Name: Robert Szczepanek
  • URL: http://robert.szczepanek.pl/qgis_tutorial.php
  • Description: Polish tutorial for Quantum GIS 1.0
  • Keywords: QGIS, GRASS, e-learning
  • Date published: September 24, 2008
  • License: CC-BY-SA 3.0
  • Target audience: GIS newcomers
  • Language: Polish
  • Relevant software: QGIS 1.0, GRASS
  • Willing to publish on OSGeo's future content platform? yes
  • Module source format: html

MapServer OGC Web Services Workshop

  • Author Name: Tom Kralidis, Daniel Morissette, Jean-François Doyon, Steve Lime, Yewondwossen Assefa
  • Affiliation: various
  • URL: http://ms-ogc-workshop.maptools.org/
  • Description: Interoperability is increasingly becoming a focus point for organizations that distribute and share data over the Internet. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) focuses on the development of publicly available geospatial web standards. MapServer currently supports numerous OGC specifications, allowing users to publish their data services in an interoperable manner. This workshop will review the OGC specfications supported in MapServer as well as provide information on implementation options and issues, as well as what the future holds for OGC support in MapServer
  • Keywords: MapServer, OGC
  • Date published: June 2005
  • License:
  • Target audience: undergraduate; graduate; mid-career;
  • Language: English
  • Relevant software: MapServer
  • Willing to publish on OSGeo's future content platform? yes
  • Module source format: html
  • Additional comments:

I. Software GIS open-source, o alternativă completă la soluţiile proprietare. Introducere, librării şi toolkit-uri de dezvoltare (Romanian)

  • Author Name: Vasile Crăciunescu
  • Affiliation: geo-spatial.org
  • URL: http://earth.unibuc.ro/articole/open-source-gis-I
  • Description: A gentle introduction to the open source concepts and continue with an overview of principal geospatial libraries and toolkits.
  • Keywords: FOSS4G
  • Date published: January 2007
  • License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
  • Target audience: undergraduate; graduate; mid-career;
  • Language: Romanian/Romana
  • Relevant software: GDAL, FDO, Proj4, JTS, GEOS, GeoTools, GeoApi, GeoWidgets, GeoVista Studio
  • Willing to publish on OSGeo's future content platform? yes
  • Module source format: html
  • Additional comments:

II. Software GIS open-source, o alternativă completă la soluţiile proprietare. Aplicaţii desktop. (Romanian)

Utilizare Quantum GIS. Partea I: Introducere, vizualizare date, lucrul cu date raster (Romanian)

  • Author Name: Vasile Crăciunescu
  • Affiliation: geo-spatial.org
  • URL: http://earth.unibuc.ro/tutoriale/utilizare-qgis-unu
  • Description: First part of the translation and adaptation in Romanian language of Gary Sherman's “Shuffling Quantum GIS into the Open Source GIS Stack” tutorial.
  • Keywords: QGIS
  • Date published: March 2008
  • License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
  • Target audience: undergraduate; graduate; mid-career;
  • Language: Romanian/Romana
  • Relevant software: QGIS
  • Willing to publish on OSGeo's future content platform? yes
  • Module source format: html
  • Additional comments:

Delinierea unui bazin hidrografic - O soluție open-source completă (Romanian)

  • Author Name: Marius Jigmond
  • Affiliation: geo-spatial.org
  • URL: http://earth.unibuc.ro/tutoriale/bazin-hidrografic-prin-QGIS-GRASS/
  • Description: Step by step tutorial describing how the QGIS + GRASS combination can be use for hydrological watershed delineation based on DEMs.
  • Keywords: QGIS, GRASS, wathershed delineation
  • Date published: December 2007
  • License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
  • Target audience: undergraduate; graduate; mid-career;
  • Language: Romanian/Romana
  • Relevant software: QGIS, GRASS
  • Willing to publish on OSGeo's future content platform? yes
  • Module source format: html, video
  • Additional comments:

Realizarea şi adăugarea de noi simboluri în Quantum GIS (Romanian)

  • Author Name: Mihai-Daniel Niţă
  • Affiliation: geo-spatial.org
  • URL: http://earth.unibuc.ro/tutoriale/realizare-simboluri-qgis
  • Description: Tutorial describing how a user can create and use custom cartographic symbols in QGIS.
  • Keywords: QGIS, symbols
  • Date published: April 2008
  • License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
  • Target audience: undergraduate; graduate; mid-career;
  • Language: Romanian/Romana
  • Relevant software: QGIS, Inkscape
  • Willing to publish on OSGeo's future content platform? yes
  • Module source format: html
  • Additional comments:

Manipularea datelor spaţiale folosind GDAL. I Date raster (Romanian)

Instalare GRASS pe platforme MacOSX (Romanian)

Instalarea GRASS pe platforme Windows (Romanian)

Georeferenţierea unei hărţi scanate (Romanian)

Definirea proiecţiei Stereo 70 pentru ILWIS (Romanian)

  • Author Name: Mihai Terente
  • Affiliation: geo-spatial.org
  • URL: http://earth.unibuc.ro/tutoriale/tutorial-stereo70-ILWIS
  • Description: Romanian tutorial describing how the Stereo70 coordinate system can be defined in ILWIS.
  • Keywords: ILWIS, Stereo70
  • Date published: April 2008
  • License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
  • Target audience: undergraduate; graduate; mid-career;
  • Language: Romanian/Romana
  • Relevant software: ILWIS
  • Willing to publish on OSGeo's future content platform? yes
  • Module source format: html
  • Additional comments:

Utilizare PostGIS. Partea I: Instalare PostgreSQL + PostGIS. (Romanian)

  • Author Name: Ion Nedelcu
  • Affiliation: geo-spatial.org
  • URL: http://earth.unibuc.ro/tutoriale/utilizare-postgis-unu
  • Description: Romanian tutorial for installing and configuring PostgreSQl and PostGIS.
  • Keywords: PostgreSQL, PostGIS
  • Date published: March 2008
  • License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
  • Target audience: undergraduate; graduate; mid-career;
  • Language: Romanian/Romana
  • Relevant software: PostgreSQL, PostGIS
  • Willing to publish on OSGeo's future content platform? yes
  • Module source format: html
  • Additional comments:

Harta temperaturii medii lunare: metoda detrended kriging (Romanian)

  • Author Name: Alexandru Dumitrescu
  • Affiliation: geo-spatial.org
  • URL: http://earth.unibuc.ro/tutoriale/harta-temperatura-medie-lunara
  • Description: Tutorial describing how interpolate temperature values using detrended kriging method in SAGA GIS.
  • Keywords: detrended kriging, SAGA GIS
  • Date published: March 2008
  • License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
  • Target audience: undergraduate; graduate; mid-career;
  • Language: Romanian/Romana
  • Relevant software: SAGA GIS
  • Willing to publish on OSGeo's future content platform? yes
  • Module source format: html
  • Additional comments:

Decuparea unui set de date grid folosind o mască vectorială (Romanian)

Obţinerea unui fundal topografic/batimetric global folosind datele ETOPO2 (Romanian)

Explorarea 3D a realităţii geografice folosind VTP. Primii paşi. (Romanian)

Navigare 3D într-o pagină web folosind controlul ActiveX VTP (vtocx) (Romanian)

  • Author Name: Vasile Crăciunescu
  • Affiliation: geo-spatial.org
  • URL: http://earth.unibuc.ro/tutoriale/vtocx
  • Description: Tutorial for using VTP ActiveX vtocx for 3D visualization inside browser.
  • Keywords: Vis-sim, VTP, vtocx
  • Date published: January 2007
  • License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
  • Target audience: undergraduate; graduate; mid-career;
  • Language: Romanian/Romana
  • Relevant software: VTP
  • Willing to publish on OSGeo's future content platform? yes
  • Module source format: html
  • Additional comments:

Accesarea datelor PostgreSQL în ArcMap prin PostGIS şi zigGIS (Romanian)

  • Author Name: Marius Jigmond
  • Affiliation: geo-spatial.org
  • URL: http://earth.unibuc.ro/tutoriale/postgresql-postgis-ziggis-arcmap
  • Description: Tutorial for using zigGIS to access date stored inside PostgreSQL+PostGIS from ArcMap.
  • Keywords: PostgreSQL, PostGIS, zigGIS
  • Date published: October 2007
  • License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
  • Target audience: undergraduate; graduate; mid-career;
  • Language: Romanian/Romana
  • Relevant software: PostgreSQL, PostGIS, zigGIS
  • Willing to publish on OSGeo's future content platform? yes
  • Module source format: html
  • Additional comments:


SigLibre - Moodle course site on FOSSGIS (in French)

  • Author Name: Moritz Lennert
  • Affiliation: Université Libre de Bruxelles, GRASS Development Team
  • URL: http://geog-pc40.ulb.ac.be/siglibre/course/view.php?id=7
  • Description: Collection of training material on FOSSGIS developed for a local training course, mostly using GRASS
  • Keywords: GIS, raster, vector, analysis, GRASS, QGIS, PostGIS
  • Date published: October 2008
  • License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
  • Target audience: undergraduate; graduate; mid-career;
  • Language: French
  • Relevant software: GRASS, QGIS, PostGIS
  • Willing to publish on OSGeo's future content platform? yes, if useful
  • Module source format: moodle course with different resources (OpenOffice, PDF, web links, etc)
  • Additional comments:


Αναπαραγωγή του χάρτη CORINE με το GRASS-GIS

  • Author Name: Nikos Alexandris
  • Affiliation: University of Freiburg, Germany
  • URL: http://prdownload.berlios.de/gregis/corine_grass-gis_el.pdf
  • Description: How to reproduce the CORINE map using GRASS under Linux (Ubuntu)
  • Keywords: CORINE, GRASS, SQLite Data Base Browser, Linux, Ubuntu
  • Date published: February 22nd, 2009
  • License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Greece License
  • License ~ additional information: Permission to republish the CORINE2000 map for the Greek territory (data downloaded at January 2009) granted by EEA. Details at OSGEO's Geodata mailing list: [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]
  • Target audience: Έλληνες χρήστες του GRASS / Greek GRASS users
  • Language: Ελληνικά / Greek
  • Relevant software: GRASS, SQLite Data Base Browser
  • Willing to publish on OSGeo's future content platform? Yes
  • Additional comments: This guide, along with the ready-to-use "Greek" CORINE map is an updated and extended version of [6]. Published in GREGIS: Greek GIS methods and data

Old material which might be dated, but still useful

Given the age of these, you probably need to watch out for things that have changed in software version updates; if you have tested something here and find that it is still completely valid in current software releases, it should probably be "promoted" to the full inventory list.

OS Geo education bibliography (please feel free to add anything relevant here)

Note that there is also Library#GFOSS_Books!

Roger S. Bivand, Edzer J. Pebesma and V. Gómez-Rubio, 2008. Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R. UseR! Series, Springer, New York. 378 p., Softcover. Example sections and data sets available from http://www.asdar-book.org/

U.S. National Research Council, 2006. Meeting National Needs Through Enhanced Geographic Information Science. Pdf file available at: http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11687.html

Markus Neteler and Helena Mitasova, 2007, Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach. Third Edition. Springer, New York. Related Web site with data download and TOC: http://www.grassbook.org/

Christine Nieman, 2008, An exploration of free and open software for geomatics. B.A. thesis, Carleton University, Canada. PDF version available from http://cemml.carleton.ca/osgeo_files/FOSS_geomatics.pdf

Existing open educational geospatial materials

Training providers

For discussion

  • Here is a prototype wiki page suggested by the UMass Amherst team for how we might want to reorganize this section using a wiki platform - to be discussed at FOSS4Geo in Victoria
  • OSGeo Multilanguage Dictionary
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