Hi Ed. Thanks for the warm welcome. I am glad you like our web page but we have a lot more work to do on it. I only started looking at Arches and going though the installation process and that of *Arches-HIP <http://arches-hip.readthedocs.org/en/latest/>*
thanks! Roshan On Thursday, 7 July 2016 11:00:21 UTC+2, Edmund Lee wrote: > > Hi Roshan, and welcome to the Arches group! You are joining hundreds of > members from around the world who have an interest in the development of > the Arches software. > > I'm sorry to hear you don't have a great view from you window, but your > project website looks truly amazing. Many thanks for the link. > > There are many GIS experts here who can I'm sure contribute thoughts on > any question you may have. I'm less familiar with the potential for Arches > to handle large 3D datasets, though it's a proposal that has been discussed > previously here e.g. > > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qa9cvqq3-8paIaD5yIi-qdjJdehylCp9mcZ8SEif2W4/edit > > Can anyone else on the project team comment on 3D data handling? Perhaps > we need a discussion thread to cover that? > > All good wishes > > Ed > > On Wednesday, July 6, 2016 at 10:59:35 AM UTC+1, Roshan Bhurtha wrote: > >> Hi Ed. >> I am Roshan Bhurtha, from the Zamani Project, Geomatics Division, >> University of Cape Town. I am an Electrical Engineer/Programmer and I work >> in a team which documents heritage sites in the Middle East and Africa. >> We have been documenting heritage sites for more than a decade and worked >> with international institutions, incl. the Getty ( Valley of the Queens >> Project). My function in the team is: writing code when needed for our >> laser scan processing pipeline, processing 3D terrestrial lidar, automating >> processes, teaching programming, fieldwork (the most interesting part), >> metadata stuff, and some admin :) >> >> Arches looks like a very nice way to present our data to the public ( and >> we have a lot of it ). I want a system that can help me manage users with >> different access levels, with the possibility to upload download data and >> present our massive 3D data sets and GIS data on the web. We do that, >> partially on our web site, but there is lots of room for improvements ( >> www.zamaniproject.org) ! >> I currently use FTP when having to dish out data to people, but starts to >> be a pain. >> >> We are based at the beautiful University of Cape Town, at the foot of the >> Devil's Peak. Out of my window is, unfortunately, another set of ugly >> windows. But a 1 minute walk out of the office building gives me a nice >> panoramic view of the city. >> >> I look forward to Arches! >> Roshan >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Thursday, 22 August 2013 17:29:37 UTC+2, Edmund Lee wrote: >>> >>> Hello all, ... and welcome in particular to those who have joined the >>> Arches Discussion Forum recently. >>> >>> This online group was initially set up for the project team, and has >>> just recently been opened up as the public, so some of us haven't met >>> before. How about we all share a bit of background, just like we would if >>> we were meeting in the real world? If that sounds good to you, reply to >>> this thread and share with the group some or all of the following: >>> >>> - what is your interest in Arches? >>> >>> >>> - where in the world are you working? >>> >>> and, just to make it a bit more fun, >>> >>> - what can you see out of the window? Is there any heritage in your >>> view? >>> >>> I look forward to getting to know everyone a bit better! >>> >>> >>> Ed >>> >> -- -- To post, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]. For more information, visit https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Arches Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
