Serge, Check out Quantum GIS, it is a powerful OpenSource desktop GIS that is evolving pretty rapidly. It also includes a plugin architecture, so people can write their own Python plugins. http://www.qgis.org/
OSGEO maintains a list of educational content in their wiki: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Educational_Content_Inventory If you really want to dig into algorithms in code, you could look at GEOS (C++) http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/ or JTS (Java) http://sourceforge.net/projects/jts-topo-suite/ David. On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Liz <ed...@billiau.net> wrote: > On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, Serge Wroclawski wrote: >> So where does someone like me begin? Is there a good book I can read? >> A video course online? >> >> I realize that many universities offer a GIS class, but I'm wondering >> if this is something that can be relatively self-taught? > > I've seen online references to distance education in GIS > for instance > http://www.cps.neu.edu/gradcert_gis/ > > so you should be able to learn at any level from home > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
