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Carleton University Open Source GIS Tutorials

Temporary Service Disruption

Please note: the ability to create your own user account has been temporarily suspended, due to excessive abuse by spambots, etc. If you would like an account to make legitimate contributions to the tutorials on this site, please contact Scott Mitchell (see http://www.carleton.ca/~smitch).

FOSS4G/GRASS workshops

• Intro to GRASS workshop General GRASS Introductory Tutorial (Used in workshop at Carleton, 17 October 2011)

Relevant help links for GEOM4008 Students

• Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.
• MediaWiki FAQ
• Students in GEOM 4008, please remember to create your own account in this system, and login to it when you write your wiki pages

Tutorials From 2012

• Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) by User: Sunflower
• Developing a Web Map Server Using GeoServer by Benjamin Jarmyn
• Evaluating Landscape Permeability in Quantum by Rosalie Murton and Sarah St. Germain
• Hawaii Emergency Shelter Allocation by User katiefeltz
• Exploring terrain analysis using Quantum GIS and GRASS plugin by Graham Rathwell
• Real Time GPS Tracking and Analysis with Yahoo Pipes and Quantum GIS by Siefat Fatin
• Off-Sea Evaluation of Unlicensed Mining Blocks in the North Sea by Matthew Judd and Brad Covell

Tutorials From 2010

These are from a completed class, and the students have released control of the tutorial contents to the community. If you want to update/correct/improve any of these tutorials, please feel free to log in and help improve our tutorials.

Unless otherwise noted in the individual tutorial, all of these were originally developed on/for a Windows environment. Specifically, most students were using classroom computers running Windows XP, with QGIS 1.5 (including GRASS Tools), and FWTools. Please note that this environment imposed a 32 bit Windows XP constraint that prevented the system from using all the RAM in the computers, which is likely the culprit in those cases where the tutorial authors complained that the tools could not work with larger datasets.

2010 contributions:

• Image Classification Tutorial using Orfeo Toolbox by Philippe Gratton
• Spatial data management using PostGIS by Jean Bouffard
• Using GIS for Decision Support in Emergency Medical Services by Matt Leyenaar
• Multiple Criteria Evaluation in Allocating Land for Waste Incineration by Ja'far Rogers
• Wind turbine location suitability by Joe Rogers
• Oil Platform Location Suitability using WMS by Kurtis Boyce
• Displaying Mineral Deposit Locations Across Canada using Web Services by Abuzar Popal
• Suitable Locations for the Reintroduction of the Black Tailed Prairie Dog by Jesse van den Berg
• Generating Wetness Indices for Watersheds in GRASS by Matt Giles

Previous Tutorials

Scott is slowly moving over content from the 2008 class.

• Vancouver-Whistler race planning with GRASS and QGIS by Christian Bews
• Using GPX for the novice geocacher by Pauline Pyke