FOSS for GIS video tutorials and screencasts
This is page is a try to create a central index of all available Video Tutorials and Screencasts about FOSS for GIS.
As creating a central repository is not easy due to licenses, video formats and disk space we are using this page to list all pages hosting interesting videos.
please add you contribute at the bottom of the list respecting the table layout
Screencasts and Video List
this part is dedicated to short movies showing technical usage of FOSS GIS applications. Less than 10 mins each, please.
| title and link | author | license | duration | format | description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mapping your Data | Chris Schmidt | not specified | 4 min | flash movie |
Using QGIS, Mapserver and Openlayers to easily set up a web mapping application. Large description |
| GeoServer Tutorials | Chris Holmes | not specified | many videos | flash movie | List of all official GeoServer tutorials |
| GRASS 6 Voxel tutorials | Soeren Gebbert | not specified | many videos | flash movie | Using GRASS 6 to create 3D flow simulations etc. |
| FOSS GIS tutorials | Aaron Racicot | CC | many videos | flash movie | Tutorials from www.reprojected.com. Examples include building a new Linux GIS box and building QGIS using Python bindings... |
| FOSS4G2006 conference video memories | Various | not specified | several videos | quicktime movie | Lightning Talks, Keynotes, Sponsor talks, ... |
| Riflessioni sul tema(tismo) | Pibinko | not specified | 3min | flash movie | GFOSS.it video |
| Sextante examples ( gvSIG) | Victor Ayala | CC | several videos | flash and avi | Using Sextante with gvSIG |
Presentations and long Speaches
Long public presentations of FOSS GIS softwares
| title and link | author | license | duration | format | description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TikiWiki Map | Franck Martin | not specified | many videos | flash movie | Tutorials on setting up the TikiWiki map environment |
| Chris Holmes, GeoServer presentation at Google TechTalks | Martin Weis | not specified | 54 min | flash movie |
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| Mapserver WMS on Google Earth | Franck Martin | not specified | 11 min | flash movie | Another video on using WMS from mapserver with Google Earth. |
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How to do your screencast
please add your suggestions on how you did your screencast. Please try to use and suggest Free Software.
Linux
- Easist way: recordmydesktop (on Mandriva, install with 'urpmi gtk-recordmydesktop')
- Ubuntu discussion over screencast
- Ubuntu screencast how to
- vnc2swf to record a flash movie (short vnc2swf usage tutorial)
Mac
Windows
- Taksi - Desktop Screenshot, Video Capture/Recorder - worked well for capturing OpenGL output (I used it to record from VTerrain's Enviro viewer)
Where to publish your screencast
Actually main free video hosting are using a strong dowsampling that does not allow a good video quality to present screencast.
Then you'll need to find your own web hosting or a free one that can host just the video without resampling.
Hosting Portals
There are specialized hosting services for tutorials:
Suggestions
- What about distribution the videos with a bittorrent-style distribution? Maybe OSGeo could provide the infrastructure for this?
Some suggestions from the hivemind (note these are not necessarily open source specific):
- Directions Magazine http://www.directionsmag.com/ offers regular podcasts. They occasionally have open source related content by Adena Schutzberg (Directions staff) and others.
- http://hobu.biz/category/podcast/ (note: links seem to be dead as of 15 Jan '08)
- IT Conversations has a lot of good content, http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/index.html