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Introduction to Geospatial Concepts
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overall episode organization #1

Closed ErinBecker closed 6 years ago

ErinBecker commented 6 years ago

Based on the CAC discussion, this repo is intended as a non-coding dependent introduction to geospatial data formats and project organization. This lesson will be taught before any R has been covered, and so must not require the learner to know any R. R code can be used in the lessons to create graphics / maps, but the learner should not have to interact with the R code.

Episode 1: Spatial data formats

Episode 2: Project organization and management

Episode 3: Spatial data landscape

This information is already (at least mostly) in this repo, but needs to be reorganized to fit this episode structure.

Note: although in other Data Carpentry lessons, data cleaning is often part of the initial lesson, it will not be included in this lesson as data structures for geospatial data are complicated and may be intimidating to learners to see at the very beginning of the workshop. Data cleaning should be integrated into the rest of the lessons.

ErinBecker commented 6 years ago

More information about the CAC's discussion of this reorganization can be found

In the CAC meeting minutes

ErinBecker commented 6 years ago

@obrl-soil - please note that this repository is a copy of the old Introduction to spatio-temporal data repo. It needs major reorganization (removal of entire episodes, moving parts from one episode to another, etc). Please make a fork before major rearrangement, but don't be afraid to slice and dice!

obrl-soil commented 6 years ago

Thanks @ErinBecker - I'm pencilling in some time on the weekend :)

ErinBecker commented 6 years ago

Hey @obrl-soil - have you been able to take a stab at this reorganization? With the Bug BBQ starting tomorrow, I'd like to have a fresh repo reorganization available for them if possible. I can take a crack at moving things around tomorrow morning, but I don't know anything about geospatial data, so I would probably break something. Please let me know if you'll be able to do some reorg before the Bug BBQ.

obrl-soil commented 6 years ago

HI @ErinBecker yes I've got some draft material so far at my forked repo, but I want to add more before I PR it. CRS and metadata content needs more work.

ErinBecker commented 6 years ago

Great to hear the work is coming along! I'd highly recommend putting in a PR with your materials (even if they're not done) before the Bug BBQ starts tomorrow morning. There will be a sizable cohort of people working on these lessons during the Bug BBQ and it would be nice to avoid a big snarly merge conflict right out the gate. Please let me know if there's anything I can help with.

obrl-soil commented 6 years ago

Cool cool, first PR is in. Might be able to write more tonight (now + 9 hours or so).

obrl-soil commented 6 years ago

@ErinBecker I think lessons 2 and 3 need to be swapped - currently its jarring to go from 'what is spatial data' to 'how to make an rstudio project' back to 'what is a GIS'. 1-3-2 seems like a more logical progression. What do you think?

ErinBecker commented 6 years ago

Closed with https://github.com/datacarpentry/organization-geospatial/pull/34