[TZGISUG] Course in Open GIS and research on spatial analysis in climate change planning

[Mike Shand]

Joseph,

Thanks for sharing this with us, I am sure it will be very useful for 
those on this list with some experience in QGIS and wish to make the 
step up to using geodatabases.

Regards,
Mike

On 17/10/2015 16:12, Joseph Holler via TZGISUG wrote:
> Dear TZGIS Group,
>
> Last year, I developed an advanced GIS undergraduate course teaching 
> open source data and software (mainly SpatiaLite databases, QGIS, and 
> SAGA).  The end-goal of the course was individual student projects 
> analyzing population change and land cover change for a developing 
> country.  I'm sending this to you all because I used Tanzania as a 
> case study and we struggled with many of the same issues with census 
> data previously discussed on this listserv.
>
> The lab manual for the course is free under creative commons, 
> available here: http://www.josephholler.com/files/GIS4DEV.pdf
>
> It is definitely not perfect yet.  We did not, e.g. solve all of the 
> census data problems (e.g. huge errors in digitizing enumeration areas 
> around Lake Victoria).  I was teaching methods to students, not 
> employing interns to slog through every digitization error.  But, you 
> all may still find value in the strategies to diagnose error and in 
> the introduction to spatial SQL and I warmly welcome any feedback you 
> have.
>
> On a different topic, is anyone on this list involved with any 
> Tanzanian activity to use GIS / spatial analysis for assessing 
> vulnerability to climate change or for planning climate change 
> adaptation?  Either within government or NGOs...  I'm concluding a 
> research project on spatial planning in national adaptation programmes 
> of action (for climate, under UNFCCC) and looking to propose future 
> research on spatial planning in the NAP process in East African 
> countries.  I'd greatly appreciate any contacts in Tanzania. My email 
> is holler.joseph at gmail.com <mailto:holler.joseph at gmail.com> or 
> joseph at josephholler.com <mailto:joseph at josephholler.com>
>
> Best,
> Joseph Holler
> Visiting Assistant Professor of Geography
> Middlebury College
>
>
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