This weekend I have had the pleasure of taking part in the European GIS Education Symposium at University College Cork.
I organised a workshop on Scrappy GIS, using simple web mapping tools in this case Google Maps Engine Lite to teach the concepts of GIS, without needing a GIS !
The tutorial is online here and should take around an hour to complete. It could form a great introduction to GIS at any level, and is of course a bit scrappy itself !
Scrappy is popular approach at Google, building simple and cheap tools from what you have to hand rather than waiting for the ideal solution, the famous Lego rack used for Google’s first server is the classic example of the approach.
Now I’m off to find a pint of Beamish..
One reply on “Scrappy GIS tutorial”
Ed
I like your humour in your article on scrappy GIS
https://sites.google.com/a/blakeparsons.com/maps-engine-tutorial/projections
“over a spehrical rather than a flat surface”
Cheers
MICKY