This page is quite incomplete. Please email me with any suggested additions.

Talks / Presentations

A short list of talks that have been given to introductory GIS courses

• An assortment of GIS presentations and papers by Aaron Racicot
• An Introduction to Open Source GIS talk by Tim Welch for PSU students

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Tutorials Large selection of tutorials via OSGeo

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Blogs

• Import Cartography
• Technical Ramblings
• Paul Ramsey's blog
• Hobu, Inc
• Perry Geo
• Tyler Mitchell
• Planet Geospatial - every GIS blog and more (not necessarily open source related)

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Reference Materials for New Users

• Cheatsheets of common ArcGIS workflows using open source solutions.
• Proprietary lingo and Open Source slang: A vocabulary crosswalk to help dispel confusion.
• Using the 'ESRI Functionality Matrix' to compare how OS stacks up in ESRI terms,
  • Desktop Comparison: Comparing ArcGIS Desktop 9.2 to QGIS, uDig, GDAL, & PostGIS.
  • Server Comparison?: Comparing ArcGIS Server 9.2 to Openlayers, Mapguide, Mapserver, Geoserver, GDAL, & PostGIS.
  • Virtual Globes Comparison?: Comparing ArcGIS Explorer, Worldwind, Google Earth, Ossim Planet, and Marble.

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Getting Assistance

• IRC: freenode.net
  • #mapserver, #openlayers, #postgis, #gdal, #osgeo, #featureserver, #tilecache, #qgis
• Mailing Lists:
  • OSGEO hosted (look for 'users' lists)