[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: What GeoSpatial Open Source Software do Surveyors use?

2010-04-03 Thread Stefano Costa
Il Fri, 02 Apr 2010 07:00:57 +1100, Cameron Shorter ha scritto:

> Thanks Chris, it would count if Total Open Station was more stable
> (reported as alpha software on the website).

Hi Cameron,
I am one of the authors of Total Open Station. While it is still in 
development, we are working steadily towards a new release (a few days I 
would say), that has been more widely tested and supports more models.

Feedback is more than welcome, obviously (Landon already made some 
suggestions a few months ago, for example)

Best regards,
steko

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] What GeoSpatial Open Source Software do Surveyors use?

2010-04-03 Thread Dave Patton

On 2010/04/01 12:44 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
I'm giving a presentation on GeoSpatial Open Source at the international 
Surveyors conference here in Sydney.

http://www.fig2010.com/

I'd like advice on what use cases and Open Source packages I should 
focus on during the presentation.

Feedback from Surveyors welcomed.


A possible source of some information:
http://www.profsurv.com/magazine/archives.aspx

For example, entering "software review" (without
the quotes") seems to list the various articles
published under that 'section' of the magazine.

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] What GeoSpatial Open Source Software do Surveyors use?

2010-04-03 Thread Richard Greenwood
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Cameron Shorter
 wrote:

> I'm wanting to convince Open Source skeptics that there is robust Open
> Source Software available for surveyors which they can use right now.
>
> Eg, here is a list of tasks that surveyors regularly perform:
>
> Task 1:
> * XXX organisation (ideally big name organisation), uses YYY OS software to
> achieve task.
>
> Task 2:
> ...


I would present OSGEO software as a "GIS on-ramp" for surveyors,
rather than a replacement for their existing software. Focus on areas
where surveying and CAD software are weak, but where GIS software
excels:
* working with imagery
* working in multiple coordinate systems
* database integration
* quick map production & printing

Rich

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] What GeoSpatial Open Source Software do Surveyors use?

2010-04-03 Thread G. Allegri
Some collegues of mine use this LIS DESKTOP [1] fromLaserData.
It's a proprietary/commercial module for SAGA [2]:

[1] http://www.laserdata.at/prod_desk.html
[2] www.saga-gis.org

Giovanni

2010/4/2 Markus Neteler :
> Cameron,
>
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Cameron Shorter
>  wrote:
>> Thank you Marina,
>
> (small correction: Maria)
>
>> That is a good example.
>> To be complete, could you also answer:
>> * What would be the proprietary equivalent software you would use?
>
> I'll leave that to Maria.
>
>> * Why did you decide to use GRASS instead of proprietary software?
>> (Hopefully more than "it was cheaper")
>
> ... note that she actually *author* of the code. She and her team have
> developed it over the last years.
>
>> * It seems you are officiated with a University?
>
> She is professor there.
>
>> Industry is more convinced
>> by case studies that come out of industry, as universities are often
>> associated with "smart geeks, who have a high tollerance to things going
>> wrong because they can fix it themselves". Is there a non-education
>> affilition you can draw upon? Did you do this work for a governement
>> department or similar?
>
> I leave this again to Maria.
>
> Best
> Markus
>
>> maria.brove...@diiar-topo.polimi.it wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear Cameron
>>> if you are interested also in LiDAR data filtering (to obtain from the
>>> LiDAR point cloud the digital terrain model), we developed  commands into
>>> GRASS. They have to be used in sequence.
>>>
>>> http://grass.osgeo.org/gdp/html_grass64/v.lidar.edgedetection.html
>>> http://grass.osgeo.org/gdp/html_grass64/v.lidar.growing.html
>>> http://grass.osgeo.org/gdp/html_grass64/v.lidar.correction.html
>>> http://grass.osgeo.org/gdp/html_grass64/v.surf.bspline.html
>>>
>>> A detailed description is available here:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.foss4g2006.org/getFile.py/access?contribId=48&sessionId=59&resId=7&materialId=slides&confId=1
>>>
>>> a more recent and summarised version can be found here:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://geomatica.como.polimi.it/corsi/remote_sensing/LiDAR_filtering_with_GRASS-lab4.pdf
>>>
>>> We worked also on calibration of  the filtering parameters (around 20
>>> parameters) by integrating the USGS UCODE and GRASS. Details are available
>>> here:
>>>
>>> http://www.isprs.org/proceedings/XXXVIII/1_4_7-W5/paper/Brovelli-126.pdf
>>>
>>> I hope it helps.
>>>
>>> Cheers.
>>> Maria
>>>
>>>
>>>
 - "Cameron Shorter"  wrote:

> I'm giving a presentation on GeoSpatial Open Source at the
> international
> Surveyors conference here in Sydney.
> http://www.fig2010.com/
>
> I'd like advice on what use cases and Open Source packages I should
> focus on during the presentation.
> Feedback from Surveyors welcomed.
>
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