Prototype

This page is a prototype page for higher education modules. The UMass team is working on this page currently.

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Introduction

This page offers higher-education resources related to Free/Libre and Open Source Geographic Information Systems (Foss GIS). Others are welcome to contribute. Currently (see below) these materials are organized by course and by the main author or organization involved. Unless otherwise noted, these courses are offered as an "as is" basis and have not undergone any official OSGeo peer-review process. (See below section on "where we hope to go")

As this project operates within open content paradigm, we encourage educators, students and professionals to contribute to the project by adding new modules, by editing/updated new modules and by sharing new datasets. It’s important to add new “roadmaps” or new course outlines so other could use them as well. The whole list of modules can be seen here. The modules can also be searched by categories (list of categories). Below, in the sections “Roadmaps” we present a course “Introduction to Free/Libre and Open Source GIS”, modules for which was developed by UMass team (C. Schweik et al).

Courses

Introduction to Free/Libre and Open Source GIS v.1.0

• This course, in its development, replicates the development of typical GIS project, from data development, data analysis to presentation of analysis of results. The course utilizes qGIS, Grass-plug-in and PostgreSQL/PostGIS as major GIS tools. The course was designed and tested in 2006-2007 and supported by UMass Team (C. Schweik et al).
• Level: beginners to intermediate users

Repository of modules

• All modules
• [lectures/ assignements/excercies]
• [by application area]
• [by software]
• [by level]