Course Development Through Group Study

Course Development through Group Study An application of Open Source GIS

Alex Mandel Geography Graduate Group University of California, Davis Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

Rapid Development of Technology

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Software Options Black Box ●

White Box

Closed Source

B

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vs.

Open Source

W

Software Options Black Box ●

Closed Source

White Box ●

Open Source

B

W Cost Availability Compatibility Technical barriers Customization

Sorting the pile? 3 hours/1 week ⋅10 weeks⋅12 people

W

B

G

W

G

W

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Building a Stack of Software from the pile ●

Python

Takes a team and the right tools

GDAL R OpenLayers Photo courtesy of Legozilla on Flickr

Increasing the Collaboration

Tome of GIS ●Knowledge ●Tools

Computer Science

Knowledge

Increasing the Collaboration

Tome of GIS ●Knowledge ●Tools

Computer Science

Knowledge

Learning the Trade Tools ●

Version Control –

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Subversion (SVN)

Wiki –

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Techniques

Trac

Project Management –

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Work in Teams –

2-3 people

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1 expert : 1 novice

Break down the project into small modules

-Trac

Graduate Students the Foremen of Tomorrow

Workflow Algorithm NMEA

Avg. Filtering

shp file Tool option Rpy

Standardize table format

RINEX

Post Process

shp file

Transform

shp file

Projection (proj4)

WGS84, UTM

Import to R

Survey

shp file

Map:

Paper Map

• Known Locations

Stats

• GPS Points

•RMSE Table

• RMSE Radius

Web Map

Results POINT

ID

0 p0_T02P00 1 p1_T03P00 2 p2_T01P00

X -121.7491376 -121.7521604 -121.7508878

Y 38.5403902 38.5399308 38.5428883

RMSE(ft2) 11.6576 28.8927 18.7726

Smaller Pieces

Hand Holding To Do: ● Software Tutorials ● Recruit Experts ● Research Examples

Applying to the Future New Coursework ● Graduate Level ● Undergraduate Level

Publishing: Ideas, lessons, examples, code, knowledge and experience. Using traditional and new tools(web).

Thank you Course Sponsor Jim Quinn

Course Site https://svn.cse.ucdavis.edu/trac/geo298-09f07/

Course Participants Dylan Beaudette Michele Tobias Nate Roth Sean Hogan Scott Phillips Alexandra Geddes Karen Beardsley Dave Waetjin Scott Beardsley Michael Treichler Elena Aguaron Scott Sjulin

Other Sites www.osgeo.org www.r-project.org www.python.org This presentation made with OpenOffice.org, Inkscape.org, QGIS.org