Course Development through Group

Study

An application of Open Source GIS

Alex Mandel
Geography Graduate Group
University of California, Davis

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 Rapid Development of Technology

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 Software Options
Black Box White Box
● Closed Source ● Open Source

vs.
B W
 Software Options
Black Box White Box
● Closed Source ● Open Source

B W
Cost
Availability
Compatibility
Technical barriers
Customization
 Sorting the pile?
+?=

3 hours/1 week ⋅10 weeks⋅12 people

W
W

G W
B
 Building a Stack
of Software from the pile

● Takes a team and the

right tools
Python

GDAL

OpenLayers

Photo courtesy of Legozilla on Flickr

Increasing the Collaboration

Computer
Science
Tome of GIS
●Knowledge

●Tools

Knowledge
Increasing the Collaboration

Computer
Science
Tome of GIS
●Knowledge

●Tools

Knowledge
 Learning the Trade
Tools Techniques
● Version Control ● Work in Teams
– Subversion (SVN) – 2-3 people
● Wiki – 1 expert : 1 novice
– Trac ● Break down the project
into small modules
● Project Management
– -Trac

Graduate Students the Foremen of Tomorrow

 Workflow Algorithm
NMEA Avg. Filtering shp file

Tool option
Standardize table format Rpy

RINEX Post Process shp file Transform shp file Import to R

Projection WGS84,
(proj4) UTM

Survey

Paper Map
shp file
Map:
• Known Locations
Stats
• GPS Points
•RMSE
• RMSE Radius
Table Web Map
 Results
POINT ID X Y RMSE(ft2)
0 p0_T02P00 -121.7491376 38.5403902 11.6576 Smaller
1 p1_T03P00 -121.7521604 38.5399308 28.8927 Pieces
2 p2_T01P00 -121.7508878 38.5428883 18.7726

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

Course Participants
Dylan Beaudette Other Sites
Michele Tobias
Nate Roth www.osgeo.org
Sean Hogan
Scott Phillips www.r-project.org
Alexandra Geddes
Karen Beardsley www.python.org
Dave Waetjin
Scott Beardsley
Michael Treichler This presentation made with
Elena Aguaron OpenOffice.org, Inkscape.org, QGIS.org
Scott Sjulin