An application area often ignored in the GIS community is that of Computer-Aided-Dispatch, a key element of emergency response, in which location data is clearly critical.
Our Open Source CAD, Tickets by name, is one example. (www.ticketscad.org) On 9/30/13, Barry Rowlingson <b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk> wrote: > A colleague who lectures on GIS at the university asked me if I'd give > him some advice on open-source geospatial so he could at least > introduce his third year geography & environmental science > undergraduates to the idea. Thanks to the joy of site licenses the > students get to use ACME Proprietary GIS System without having to > worry about the cost. > > So anyway, I offered to teach the lecture for him. What can I do in 50 > minutes (and possibly a workshop) for 90 undergraduates? Here's a > brain dump: > > Compare and contrast: Free/Open/Proprietary/Closed/Commercial. > Copyright/Licensing/GPL/Copyleft etc. > > Open Standards: formation and importance - talk about the OGC, > general goodness of interoperability > > Open source development advantages/perceived disadvantages and > rejoinders to those. > > Commercialising Open Source, open source in industry. > > Open Source in Education - reproducible science, 'climategate' as a > failure of openness? > > Case Studies: Open source in government - global deployments as case > studies > > Open source in the UK: Ordnance Survey/Met Office case studies > > - thats probably enough for 50 minutes. If I can do a workshop I'd > probably just get them to boot up OSGeo Live and play with QGIS for an > hour, maybe try and duplicate one of their GIS exercises from an > earlier module (load layers, buffer, overlay, report...). > > Any thoughts? > > Barry > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss