I just started using QGIS. I used a conservation copy of ArcMap before. Now after a week or so on this list I can see that what I could do with ArcMap, I will be able to do with QGIS. Therefore, I'll be using QGIS for all my mapping needs. That is I will delineate all stands, join soil information from a USDA database to a soil polygons, draw lake and wetland buffers, and other basic mapping tasks. I hope to extend to incorporate more database information to the map like species density information and volume information. I guess about all information in forestry has a spatial component therefore may be and possibly should be incorporated in a GIS. For me that is a little work in progress. :) Jake
-----Original Message----- From: Magnus Homann [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 4:53 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Forestry Week? (was Case sensitive) 2012-03-13 20:03, Tyler Mitchell skrev: > Much of my early GIS background was in forestry here in Western Canada. > I think this week I've seen "forestry" mentioned 3-4 times on this > list. I'd love to learn more about what folks are doing with QGIS in > forestry or other ecosystem management of natural resources. Fire me > a note if you don't want to share on the list. Here's a screenie of my Qgis use. Managing about 100 hectares of productive forest with myself doing some work (precomercial thinning, thinning). http://bayimg.com/eanFlAAdE * Aerial photo (0.5m/pixel, color) * Old survey map detailing measures and markers * Parcels with info (se attribute table) * Tracks from precomercial thinning (wearing my Garmin Forerunner 305 when doing forestry work, makes it easy to kepp track what I've done) * Roads, paths * Layers detailing what has been planted, thinned, and cut down. * Borders and markers, also exported to handheld GPS (and to Android phone with Oruxmaps and google earth aerial in the background). * Notes where I found old barbed wire. * Notes of good places to pick mushroom... ;) Standard QGIS, data stord in shapefiles. Magnus _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
