Hi Mathieu,
Expanding on Chris' point, you might want to check out the manuals we have here:
http://www.openarchaeology.net/project/survey-and-gis-manual
Cameron Shorter mentioned them in a presentation he did - I seem to
have lost all original links, but here's an embedded video:
Now, do you know any other UN FAO sponsored FOSS / Geo projects?
Not only software, but data too; the FAO have released Africover data:
http://www.africover.org/
This has made its way into OpenStreetMap:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Africover/DEPHA
Cheers, Joseph
On 20 July 2010
Hi Cameron,
You might find these Oxford Archaeology produced guides interesting:
http://openarchaeology.net/project/survey-and-gis-manual
There's also the MapAction Field Guide to Humanitarian Mapping:
http://www.mapaction.org/content/view/183/59/
If you're looking for a couple of real feel
Hi Simon,
I can't help with everything, but I'll make a couple of suggestions.
For road data, CloudMade produce shapefile exports from OpenStreetMap:
http://downloads.cloudmade.com/oceania/australia
OSM is pretty exciting in Oz at the moment as there's a lot of users
tracing data from some
