GRASS Education (Free GIS education)

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Promotional material

• See Promotional material

Teaching Concepts

• Basic GIS concepts
• GRASS First-day documentation

Teaching Materials

Seminars & Presentations

• GRASS Presentations on Slideshare
• GIS seminar: The GRASS GIS software at Politecnico di Milano, Polo Regionale di Como, 30 May 2006 (6h). Introduction to GRASS 6 and QGIS (Slides PDF/ODP/HTML)

• OSGeo Library: Presentations and educational material

Tutorials

• Import NoaaEnc Mini-tutorial

• Tutorials by Yann Chemin: One document of small tutorials to get started in GRASS GIS and GRASS integration with QGIS.
  • [1] (LaTeX, Updated 20May07), covering:
    • QGIS introduction
    • QGIS GRASS plugin
    • GRASS GIS introduction
    • GRASS GIS DEM manipulations
    • GRASS GIS habitat analysis exercise
    • GRASS GIS scripting example for habitat exercise is provided in Appendix B

The documents are in http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass-addons/tutorials/grass_starter

• Country Data Processing Tutorial
• Grass Vector Layers Tutorial

• Several Tutorials and Examples mostly related toward soil science and hydrology

Workshops

• GRASS_related_workshops_and_presentations held at Lausanne, Switzerland, September 12-15th 2006

Training Videos

• GRASS 6.3 feature tour:
  http://www-pool.math.tu-berlin.de/~soeren/grass/modules/screenshots/grass63feature_tour.html
• The GRASS startup screen (select or create location, mapset,..) [TODO]
• Using the gis.m GUI [TODO]
• Several flash videos on using GRASS in Ubuntu

How to create them

• A short vnc2swf usage tutorial is available here:
  http://www-pool.math.tu-berlin.de/~soeren/grass/modules/screenshots/vnc2swf_usage.html

Soeren used vnc2swf to record that flash movie.

The installation is easy if you have a Linux dist which provides all needed python packages (pyGames and others I don't remember).

You would need a VNC-Server installed (not too tricky normally). The installation of vnc is easy. There are a lot of free vncserver and clients out there in the internet.

[list some here]

To record a vnc session is not very complicated:

• First you have to run a vnc server and the client.
• The next step is to start vnc2swf.py with the address of the vncserver and a file name.

See Also

• OSGeo.org Education Committee Work Program

Current Restrictions

People want to upload their course material including PDFs, slide presentations, Flash tutorial movies, course material, lecture notes, etc.. Because this wiki only supports text and simple graphics files, we have to find a solution to enable password controlled upload of large files. For this reason it is necessary to provide a dedicated general Free-GIS education server to support GRASS and Free GIS teaching and education efforts. For now contact the grass-dev mailing list if you want something uploaded.

From our point of view a natural home for Free-GIS-Edu documentation, video tutorials, presentations, PDFs, etc. could be:

• grass-addons SVN
• OSGeo Download Server
• GRASS bug/wish tracker
• Intevation's FreeGIS.org