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
Tutorials Large selection of tutorials via OSGeo
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)
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.
Getting Assistance
- IRC: freenode.net
- #mapserver, #openlayers, #postgis, #gdal, #osgeo, #featureserver, #tilecache, #qgis
- Mailing Lists:
- OSGEO hosted (look for 'users' lists)
