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

2010-04-06 Thread Seven (aka Arnulf)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

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

2010-04-05 Thread Cameron Shorter
Joseph, These Oxford Archaeology guides provide some excellent material for an Open Source Surveyors presentation. Thanks for the link. Joseph Reeves wrote: Hi Cameron, You might find these Oxford Archaeology produced guides interesting:

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 nete...@osgeo.org: Cameron, On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Cameron Shorter

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 cameron.shor...@gmail.com 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:

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

2010-04-02 Thread Markus Neteler
Cameron, On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com 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.

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

2010-04-02 Thread maria . brovelli
Hi Cameron Def. Quota Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com: Thank you Marina, That is a good example. To be complete, could you also answer: * What would be the proprietary equivalent software you would use? to filter the LiDAr point cloud the most used software is Terrasolid

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

2010-04-02 Thread Cameron Shorter
Maria, Under what circumstances should we recommend people use GRASS over Terrasolid Terrascan, and under what circumstances should they stick with Terrasolid Terrascan? I can see that GRASS is better if you plan to write your own algorithm, because you have access to the source code. I'm

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

2010-04-01 Thread Cameron Shorter
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. -- Cameron Shorter

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

2010-04-01 Thread Chris Puttick
Well we have surveyors trialling Total Open Station into gvSIG and people using Leica's software into gvSIG; I guess here is the message that into GIS is a move forward for all but building survey and that there are open source GIS packages well up to the job. And for building survey? Well,

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

2010-04-01 Thread maria . brovelli
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

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

2010-04-01 Thread Cameron Shorter
Thank you Marina, That is a good example. To be complete, could you also answer: * What would be the proprietary equivalent software you would use? * Why did you decide to use GRASS instead of proprietary software? (Hopefully more than it was cheaper) * It seems you are officiated with a

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

2010-04-01 Thread Joseph Reeves
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