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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Welcome aboard Simon,<BR>
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It would be good to hear more about your experiences with gvSIG and other FOSS4G Desktop spatial systems when you get the time.<BR>
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Bruce<BR>
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On 27/07/10 4:36 PM, "Simon Cropper" <<a href="scropper@botanicusaustralia.com.au">scropper@botanicusaustralia.com.au</a>> wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Hi,<BR>
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This is a quick introduction. My name is Simon Cropper and I run a small<BR>
ecological consultancy in Victoria (see webpage if interested).<BR>
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I conduct flora and fauna surveys and do vegetation mapping within south-east<BR>
Australia. Nearly every job I conduct I use GIS to help collect, synchronise,<BR>
analyse and present spatial data. I have used GIS in over 100 projects.<BR>
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Over the last 15 years I have used ArcView but recently replaced this with<BR>
gvSIG Desktop. I use this GIS on Vista (on a tablet PC) and on my Ubuntu<BR>
Desktop.<BR>
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Since adopting gvSIG, following an extensive review of FOSS GIS Desktop<BR>
systems, I have been actively involved in this community (creating tutorials,<BR>
helping with translations, reporting bugs, helping on the mail list, etc). I<BR>
am preparing some Australian tutorials for this ostensibly Spanish system.<BR>
This and other technological publications are being released on my website<BR>
(see webpage if interested under the Technology Section).<BR>
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I also dabble in the use of QGIS, OpenJUMP, SAGA, Sextante, GDAL, Kosmo, GRASS<BR>
and FWTools/OpenEV.<BR>
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I have submitted a paper to the next issue of OSGeo Journal (in draft) and<BR>
another paper to the Conference Newsletter for the gvSIG 2010 Conference later<BR>
this year (also in draft) on the topic "gvSIG a robust and reliable<BR>
alternative to ArcView". The first paper is essentially an outline of my<BR>
typical workflow and whether a particular package can do that task. The second<BR>
paper is a list of the last 5-6 projects (big and small), what I need a GIS to<BR>
do and how gvSIG performed doing it. My comments are predominantly positive<BR>
although I don't shirk at telling it as it is when a problem is identified. <BR>
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So, that's me... well the short version anyway.<BR>
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I look forward to participating in this local chapter of OSGeo and getting to<BR>
know others on the list a bit better.<BR>
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--<BR>
Cheers Simon<BR>
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Simon Cropper<BR>
Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd<BR>
PO Box 160 Sunshine 3020<BR>
P: 03 9311 5822. M: 041 830 3437<BR>
W: <a href="http://www.botanicusaustralia.com.au">http://www.botanicusaustralia.com.au</a><BR>
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