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<DIV>Hi Gavin</DIV>
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<DIV>Please let me know when you find it. I have the Agileworks CD. I was looking for an open source equivalent to Idrisi for the Learners her at CSIR. </DIV>
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<DIV>Please advice on your findings and which one I can use for the learners.</DIV>
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<DIV>Thank you</DIV>
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<DIV>Ramsley Sono<BR>Learnership Co-ordinator<BR>CSIR<BR>Meiring Naude Road<BR>Brumeria<BR>Pretoria<BR>South Africa<BR>P O Box 395<BR>Pretoria<BR>0001<BR>+2712 841 2133<BR>+2783 586 9013<BR><BR>>>> GavinF@mintek.co.za 15/06/2006 11:31:28 >>><BR></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Hi al<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Have any of you worked on or do you know about a good CD of OS GIS resources that you’d recommend for distribution? Or, are you keen to help develop one that we could all use?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I’m aware of a few CDs: FreeGIS, UbuntiGIS, KnoppixGIS and a local compilation by Agileworks. What do you think of these?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">What I’m after is something like the following, to promote and facilitate the availability and use of GIS in <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place>:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">- simple interface to contents, perhaps html-browser driven.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">- collection of recent, stable, popular/good OS GIS software binaries for multiple platforms (min Windows and Linux). A complete suite from desktop to spatial DB to web map server to analysis to image processing to develop tools and libraries, etc.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">- compilation or pointers to support material for installation and configuration<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">- a collection of free data<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">- a collection of metadata, available through metadata software like GeoNetwork desktop.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">- standalone, but with extra resources that can be obtained if you have a network connection. Many users will not be online.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">- Nice to have: multilingual<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">- not a once-off – this can be a resource that we can update over time.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">- everything as standards-compliant as possible<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">- the whole thing released under open content / open source licences<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I‘d appreciate any comments, offers of assistance or suggestions for other content or good ideas for setting it up.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">thanks<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Gavin Fleming<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">GISSA Open Source SIG <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Sustainable Development Researcher<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">Mintek <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">w: +27-11-709-4668<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">c: 0845965680<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">f: 0866164820</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Tahoma size=1><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 7.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">xmpp (Jabber, Google Talk, etc.): </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"><A href="mailto:gavinjfleming@gmail.com"></SPAN></FONT><FONT size=1><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 7.5pt">gavinjfleming@gmail.com</A></SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">postal: P/Bag X3015, Randburg, 2125<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">physical: <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">200 Hans Strijdom Drive</st1:address></st1:Street>, Randburg<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">South Africa</SPAN></FONT></st1:place></st1:country-region><o:p></o:p></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma size=3><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">27.9782E 26.0896S<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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