On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:13:35 -0400 Steve Friedman <friedman.st...@gmail.com> wrote:
> While open source gis is appealing most jobs still require > introductory employees to use arcgis products. I'd stay away from > anything else if you want your students to thank you latter. Sorry if I step in a bit late. Well, if students are taught the concepts and are given open source GIS to practice, they will be able to use any other GIS. The advantage is that they won't need to buy licenses or worse have illegal copies to complete the tutorials. I also agree with Rich's opinions. The decision of teaching closed source GIS comes often by the will to prepare people to work. And workplaces simply adopt what people have learned at school, and/or ask for people able to use the software they bought some time in the past and are reluctant to abandon... One of the ways to break this circle - and reward competent technicians - is to be truly software independent. My 2c, Anne > Steve > On Oct 11, 2011 4:33 PM, "Jonathan Greenberg" <j...@illinois.edu> > wrote: > > > R-sig-geo'ers: > > > > I wanted to take a quick poll -- what is your favorite introductory > > GIS textbook? I'm evaluating texts for a basic GIS course I'll be > > teaching next year, and I wanted to get some feedback from the > > open-source community. Thanks! > > > > --j > > > > -- > > Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD > > Assistant Professor > > Department of Geography > > University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign > > 607 South Mathews Avenue, MC 150 > > Urbana, IL 61801 > > Phone: 415-763-5476 > > AIM: jgrn307, MSN: jgrn...@hotmail.com, Gchat: jgrn307, Skype: > > jgrn3007 http://www.geog.illinois.edu/people/JonathanGreenberg.html > > > > _______________________________________________ > > R-sig-Geo mailing list > > R-sig-Geo@r-project.org > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > R-sig-Geo mailing list > R-sig-Geo@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo -- http://gis.cri.fmach.it/ghisla/
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