{"id":79,"date":"2007-10-01T15:42:50","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T20:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kralidis.ca\/blog\/2007\/10\/01\/fsu-and-foss4g\/"},"modified":"2007-10-01T15:42:50","modified_gmt":"2007-10-01T20:42:50","slug":"fsu-and-foss4g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kralidis.ca\/blog\/2007\/10\/01\/fsu-and-foss4g\/","title":{"rendered":"FSU and FOSS4G"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.co.mecklenburg.nc.us\/ft\/\" title=\"Fuzzy Tolerance\">Fuzzy Tolerance<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.co.mecklenburg.nc.us\/ft\/?p=164\" title=\"reports\">reports<\/a> that FSU is offering <a href=\"http:\/\/gis.coaps.fsu.edu\/moodle\/\" title=\"courses in open source GIS\">courses in open source GIS<\/a> packages such as <a href=\"http:\/\/udig.refractions.net\/\" title=\"uDig\">uDig<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qgis.org\/\" title=\"QGIS\">QGIS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think this is awesome, and that there is not enough on SDI and foss4g at the college\/university level.  Maybe there is confusion on whether this sort of thing belongs in computer science or geography programs (or both).  Maybe it&#8217;s still in early stages to introduce into formal curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>What I do know is that this would help students hit the ground running when they begin their career.<\/p>\n<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"http:\/\/cdn.leafletjs.com\/leaflet-0.5\/leaflet.css\" \/>\n<!--[if lte IE 8]>\n  <link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"http:\/\/cdn.leafletjs.com\/leaflet-0.5\/leaflet.ie.css\" \/>\n<![endif]-->\n<script src=\"http:\/\/cdn.leafletjs.com\/leaflet-0.5\/leaflet.js\"><\/script>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">#map79 { width: 300px; height: 200px; }<\/style>\n\n<div id=\"map79\"><\/div>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n  var map79 = L.map('map79').setView([43.620495, -79.513198], 10);\n  L.tileLayer('http:\/\/{s}.tile.osm.org\/{z}\/{x}\/{y}.png', {\n      attribution: '&copy; <a href=\"http:\/\/osm.org\/copyright\">OpenStreetMap<\/a> contributors'\n  }).addTo(map79);\n<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fuzzy Tolerance reports that FSU is offering courses in open source GIS packages such as uDig and QGIS. I think this is awesome, and that there is not enough on SDI and foss4g at the college\/university level. Maybe there is confusion on whether this sort of thing belongs in computer science or geography programs (or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geospatial","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kralidis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kralidis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kralidis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kralidis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kralidis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kralidis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kralidis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kralidis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kralidis.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}