[Freegis-list] Categories for search or browse on freegis.org

[s duclos]

Hi Jan,

You might want to check the IOC/UNESCO site IODE on 
Marine GIS where you can find a bunch of stuff
that could be relevant/inspiring to your endeavour;
  -- GIS tutorial (starting from square one)
  -- free sofware (some GPL'ed)
  -- data
  -- ...

http://ioc.unesco.org/oceanteacher/resourcekit/


Cheers,

Sylvain.



--- Jan-Oliver Wagner <jan at intevation.de> wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> this monday Heiko <heiko at intevation.de> has
> joined the FreeGIS team for the rest of the
> year.
> 
> We plan to work on the following three
> topics (in the given order):
> 
> 1. improve the freegis.org site with
> 	improved browse and search
> 	opportunities including several
> 	other changes.
> 
> 2. release an updated version 1.1.1
> 	of the FreeGIS CD.
> 
> 3. write a tutorial for performing
> 	typical GIS operations with
> 	free GIS products (initial version
> 	in German, translations would be nice).
> 	Of course the tutorial will  be under
> 	FDL :-)
> 
> We already started with the first topic.
> The FreeGIS site should offer search
> via several kinds of categories similar to,
> but not the same as freshmeat.net.
> Each entry may belong to one or
> more categories. 
> 
> We want to start with three
> categories of which the first
> is the most important one:
>  
> Application type
> Operating system
> Programming language
> 
> We defined a set of categories
> (see below) for the application type.
> We would be happy if you
> could comment upon it, hint on errors
> or missing categories.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 	Jan
> 
> Application type
> ----------------
> 
> Base GIS
> 
> 	Applications that provide basic processing
> 	routines for geo-data.
> 
> 	Among basics there are geo-referencing,
> 	buffering and blending.
> 
> 
> Visualisation
> 
> 	Programs that generate (usually
> 	multi-dimensional) presentations of
> 	the given geo-data, enabling visual
> 	and other data analysis.
> 
> 
> Interactive Viewing
> 
> 	Applications to interactively
> 	explore geo-data.
> 
> 
> GPS
> 
> 	Programms for realtime-analysis, processing, and
> 	visualisation of gps-data.
> 
> 	GPS is the acronym for Global Positioning System.
> 	With GPS you are able to locate yourself in a
> 3-dimensional
> 	system by means of bow-beats to at least 3
> satelites.
> 	Common used systems are navstar-pgs (USA), glonass
> (GUS)
> 	and in near future gallileo (EU).
> 	
> 
> Remote Sensing
> 
> 	Programs that process, analyse and present
> 	data obtained via remote sensing.
> 
> 	Remote Sensing is a touch-free satellite- air- or
> earth-based
> 	aktive (radar, laserscanning, sonar, ...) or
> passive
> 	(photo, infrared-image, digital-image) observation
> method.
> 			
> 
> Web Mapping
> 
> 	Web Mapping applications offer to present maps
> 	(vektor and/or raster) interactively on the web
> (ie. via http).
> 
> 	Typical base functions are zooming and scrolling
> the map
> 	(navigating the map) as well as map-anchored
> hyperlinks (URLs) and
> 	object identification.
> 
> 
> Geo-Data
> 
> 	Geographic data packages.
> 
> 	Geo-Data covers data explaining objects,
> 	land shapes and infrastructure at
> 	the surface of the earth, including a spatial
> information.
> 
> 
> Flights
> 
> 	Tools for realising free or predefined flights over
> 	digital terrain models.
> 
> 
> File-format Conversion
> 
> 	Tools that convert form one file format for
> geo-data
> 	to one or many others.
> 
> 
> Projection Conversion
> 
> 	Tools and applications for transfering geo-data
> from
> 	one into another projection.
> 
> 	A projection is the visualisation of a point in
> 	n - dimensions onto a point of lesser dimension,
> 	e.g. 3 or 4 dimensions.
> 	The projections can be orthographic, stereographic,
> 	equal area, equal angle, equal distance and many
> more.
> 
> 
> Customizable with Add-ons
> 
> 	Packages/Applications that support adding
> 	custom applications on-top (e.g. various kinds
> 	of geo-data based simulations such as
> 	floods, run-off, clouds, etc).
> 
> 
> Misc/Fun
> 
> 	Anything not fitting into the other categories
> 	or related to 'fun with GIS'.
> -- 
> Jan-Oliver Wagner              
> http://intevation.de/~jan/
> 
> Intevation GmbH	              	    
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> 
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