Hi All<br><br>I don't <span class="gmail_quote">think there is anything like </span><span class="gmail_quote">IDRISI</span><span class="gmail_quote"> available as OSS. GRASS can do most of what IDRISI offers, although the UI and basic approach is vastly different. I have found that people are reluctant to work with GRASS, especialy since the approach is sometimes cumbersome.
<br><br>Gavin, why don't we arrange a series of hackfests, including one for GRASS. (I especially would like to see us do a PostGIS one)<br><br>Gaby<br></span><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/15/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Gavin Fleming</b> <<a href="mailto:GavinF@mintek.co.za">GavinF@mintek.co.za</a>> wrote:<br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Open Source equivalent to Idrisi? I'm
not aware of anything with a similar interface, but you should be able to do
everything that Idrisi can do with GRASS. I think it would be great to develop
some GRASS skills in SA. </span></font></p>
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<p><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold;" lang="EN-US">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;" lang="EN-US">
Ramsley Sono [mailto:<a href="mailto:rsono@csir.co.za" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">rsono@csir.co.za</a>] <br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> 15 June 2006 12:15 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:africa@africa.osgeo.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">africa@africa.osgeo.org</a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [OSGeo Africa] open
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<p><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">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. </span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">Please advice on your findings and which one I can use for
the learners.</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">Thank you</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">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>
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>>> <a href="mailto:GavinF@mintek.co.za" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">GavinF@mintek.co.za</a> 15/06/2006 11:31:28 >>></span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Hi al</span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">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?</span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">I'm aware of a few CDs: FreeGIS,
UbuntiGIS, KnoppixGIS and a local compilation by Agileworks. What do you think
of these?</span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">What I'm after is something like
the following, to promote and facilitate the availability and use of GIS in Africa:</span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">- simple interface to contents, perhaps
html-browser driven.</span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">- 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.</span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">- compilation or pointers to support
material for installation and configuration</span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">- a collection of free data</span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">- a collection of metadata, available
through metadata software like GeoNetwork desktop.</span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">- standalone, but with extra resources
that can be obtained if you have a network connection. Many users will not be
online.</span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">- Nice to have: multilingual</span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">- not a once-off – this can be a
resource that we can update over time.</span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">- everything as standards-compliant as
possible</span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">- the whole thing released under open
content / open source licences</span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">I'd appreciate any comments, offers
of assistance or suggestions for other content or good ideas for setting it up.</span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">thanks</span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: black;">Gavin Fleming</span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: black;">GISSA Open Source SIG </span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: black;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: black;">Sustainable Development Researcher</span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: black;">Mintek </span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: black;">w: +27-11-709-4668</span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: black;">c: 0845965680</span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: black;">f: 0866164820</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"></span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Tahoma" size="1"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: black;">xmpp (Jabber, Google Talk, etc.): </span></font><font color="black" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: black;">
<a href="mailto:gavinjfleming@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><font face="Times New Roman" size="1"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt;">gavinjfleming@gmail.com</span></font></a>
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<p><font color="black" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: black;">postal: P/Bag X3015, Randburg, 2125</span></font></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><font color="black" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: black;" lang="EN-US">physical: 200 Hans
Strijdom Drive, Randburg</span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: black;" lang="EN-US">South Africa</span></font><font color="black"><span style="color: black;"></span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Tahoma" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Tahoma; color: black;" lang="EN-US">27.9782E 26.0896S</span></font></p>
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