Hey peers … this is where we learn from, and may be even contribute to. Any doubts we have, can be immediately referred here, directed and helped out
Geographical Information Sytems Learning:¶
GIS is awesome in its transdisciplinary spread influencing all other known fields and with improvement in better instrumentation and remote sensing technologies, the symbiosis between GIS and other fields, even new fields are becoming more and more integrated and democratic too. Why is that ? Because we live in land, our lives depend on water, air and soil ecosystem cycles which are directly connected to the grand system of Geography. It is very much influential how communication have influenced human cultural and social evolution. Moreover, it directly underpins the nature around us.
Broad Learning Wikis:¶
- GIS wiki
- Open Street Map wiki
- MapSchool – interesting and easy to learn for beginners
Manual Map making process:¶
Feel the awesome Convergance of Remote Sensing + Spectroscopy + Mapping + Cartography:¶
People¶
There are many hackers, mappers, cartographers, programmers around the earth, who are passionately into the geography and always have tried to democratize GIS with the tools, thought process and work flow they practice. Here we shall know some of them and it is from these kind of people any new comer can easily learn things in a completely different perspective which any other noobs like me cant give. :)
- geohacker – look at his contribution record — one of the great people who is inspiring many other people into GIS, collaborative mapping, etc..
- planemad – look at his contribution record — i am not going to speak about him anymore. (mouth zipped)
- Pascal — he is awesome… i think – the One who made quantitative analysis on OSM contributions… for each OSM contributor…
Go explore about them yourselves…
Open Course Wares :¶
Learn whatever you can, from here:
- In general:Penn State Open Education Resources
- Basics of Cartography & Visualization
- Mapping the Changing World
- Environmental Applications of GIS — interested to understand nature around us ?
- Topographic mapping with LIDAR — interested in instruments? measurement? data acquisition?
- Exploring Elevation and Digital Elevation in GIS — for those who are interested in height, terrain..
- Open Web mapping — open and collaborative web mapping
- GIS programming & Automation — for cool pythoner’s out there ! :)
- GIS Application Development
- Planning GIS in Emergency management — need of the hour (really useful during disaster, calamity mgmt.)
- Remote sensing analysis & Applications — understanding RS mechanisms, and its applications
- Geospatial system analysis and design — for systems integration, helpful for transdisciplinary thought process
Data Sources:¶
Data sources are vital for whoever likes to work with geography. Fortunately we have reliable and open data sources which one can access data with the sense of liberty. The following is the list of data sources, which anybody can access and play with which acts as fountain ground for hackers/makers/mappers/gis-doers…..
Enjoy……. :)
Awesome Overpass:¶
Institution Provided:¶
- Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission
- NOAA geophysical data (includes ftp access too)
- NOAA dataset from SOS division (If we had a hackerspace, it would be definitely be atleast in prototype or atleast why not a mini-portable sos )
- Landsat Data access (USGS – Global Visualization Tool)
- Natural Earth Data
- Sentinel’s scientific Data Hub
- Alaska Satellite Facility Data
- ISRO Geo Platform
Open Data Access:¶
Tools – Tutorials :¶
Tools help realize a mapper, cartographer, geologist, ecologist, geophysicist, researcher’s, students, hackers, maker’s, work flow — in order to acquire data, pre-process it, analyze it deeply and broadly, post-process it, to share, to generate report, to test the data with different mathematical models based on the study, to test under various scenarious, etc. etc.
In Free software realm we primarily have grass gis and qgis to help people to do gis things.
