<br>Hello Open Layers developers,<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">My name is Abe Collins. I am a grazier and farmer in St. Albans, VT. I belong to a community of farmers and graziers around the world who are focused on improving soil health, reversing desertification, sequestering carbon in soils and enhancing provision of environmental services to communities through innovative grazing and agricultural management.</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"> Some of you may have already received this post on the OS GEO list - apologies for the overlap if so.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">
I am seeking both bids and code-ninja cognitive surplus inputs for completion of a punch list for the very basic farm and ranch mapping tool described (including current code) in this google doc:</div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1est8q9fUldsY-d9jal97YeL6W_u2L84X8nL5j5N7bFk/edit?hl=en_US" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1est8q9fUldsY-d9jal97YeL6W_u2L84X8nL5j5N7bFk/edit?hl=en_US</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>At this point, a from-the-hip bid is welcomed....price range and estimated time to complete the work. Most of the to-do items relate to Open Layers.</div><div>If people are located within reasonable shipping distance, I'd be pleased also to discuss a trade of organic, grassfed beef - a half of a steer - enough to build your reputation as the backyard barbecue king. This is some good beef, guaranteed tender. Here's a video of the herd getting fat under the sun....<a href="http://youtu.be/aKoAYLNqYFQ">http://youtu.be/aKoAYLNqYFQ</a></div>
<div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote">The New Soil Land Planner, as it stands today, is here:</div><div class="gmail_quote">
<div><a href="http://newsoilnet.ning.com/page/farm-mapping-tool" target="_blank">http://newsoilnet.ning.com/page/farm-mapping-tool</a></div><div><br></div><div>It is embedded within a social network, the purpose of which is to facilitate grazing and agricultural management that improves soil health. </div>
<div><a href="http://newsoilnet.ning.com" target="_blank">newsoilnet.ning.com</a></div><div><br></div><div>Everything above is in very early phases, but as soon as we have basic functionality on the land planner tool, we will be releasing the bundle to a sizable group of agricultural innovators to see what the regenerative agriculture community can do with these tools and networking capacities. Our hopes are high.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I've had some good help from Bill Morris of Geosprocket Spatial Solutions. <a href="http://www.geosprocket.com/portfolio/" target="_blank">http://www.geosprocket.com/portfolio/</a></div><div>Chris Schmidt and Tristan O'Neil also wrote a lot of code with Bill for this.</div>
<div>Bill and Chris wrote much of the existing code for the New Soil Land Planner and for the New Soil Analysis tool, a companion project.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The New Soil Analysis tool draws from the soils and topographical datasets created by the Soil Information System (SIS). </div><div><a href="http://www.soilinfo.com/" target="_blank">http://www.soilinfo.com/</a> The SIS offers unprecedented accuracy and precision in soil properties mapping. The SIS has mostly been used for precision agriculture so far. It has a lot of potential to reliably drive environmental modeling of watersheds. </div>
<div><br></div><div>We eventually intend to use SIS data from regeneratively managed farms and ranches to conduct research and environmental modeling at the watershed level, generating alternate watershed function and environmental services provision scenarios.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks for your consideration, and I welcome communications.</div><div>Abe<br clear="all"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div>-- <br><font face="garamond, serif">Abe Collins<br>
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</div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><font face="garamond, serif">Abe Collins<br>Founder<br>New Soil Matrix, Inc.<br>(802) 782-1883<br>Skype: abe.collins<br></font><div><font face="garamond, serif"><br></font></div>
<div><font face="garamond, serif">"Do civilizations fall because the soil fails to produce - or does a soil fail only when the people living on it no longer know how to manage their civilization?"--<i>-Charles Kellog, Soils and Men, the 1938 United States Department of Agriculture Yearbook of Agriculture</i></font></div>
<div><font face="garamond, serif"><i><br></i></font></div><div><font face="garamond, serif"><i><span style="font-style:normal;border-collapse:collapse">"Every era has been shaped by its response to the great water challenge of its time....those societies that find the most innovative responses to the crisis are most likely to come out as winners." </span></i></font></div>
<div><font face="garamond, serif"><i><span style="font-style:normal;border-collapse:collapse">-- <i> Steven Solomon, Water - The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power and Civilization</i></span></i></font></div><div><font face="garamond, serif"><br>
</font></div><div><font face="garamond, serif">"Man, despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication and his many accomplishments, owes his existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains."<i> ---Author Unknown</i></font></div>
<div><font face="garamond, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="garamond, serif">“Land, then, is not merely soil; it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants, and animals.” <i>---Aldo Leopold</i></font></div>
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