[Pacific] Fw: Re: Solomon Islands GIS Users Meeting - March 6th 2013

Tue Mar 5 21:35:49 PST 2013

Way to go guys. This is awesome. Will try out QGIS Server when i have time.
Looks really really good.

Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,

Nome

On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Edwin Liava'a <liavaa.edwin at gmail.com>wrote:

>  My Pacific Islands 1Toks,
>
> Forwarded here is email about first meeting here at the Solomon Islands in
> view of Open Source GeoSpatial Software.
>
> I hope to see more in other parts of our region.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ed
>
> ------ Forwarded Message ------
> From: "Edwin Liava'a" <liavaa.edwin at gmail.com>
> To: "wolf forstreuter" <wforstreuter at yahoo.co.uk>; "MiaR at spc.int" <
> MiaR at spc.int>; "jvaikota at lands.gov.sb" <jvaikota at lands.gov.sb>; "
> bjoern.hecht at giz.de" <bjoern.hecht at giz.de>; "drove at planning.gov.sb" <
> drove at planning.gov.sb>; "okekiniNTU at gmail.com" <okekiniNTU at gmail.com>; "
> ttitiulu at yahoo.com.au" <ttitiulu at yahoo.com.au>; "gkofana at yahoo.com" <
> gkofana at yahoo.com>; "misimakarobert at gmail.com" <misimakarobert at gmail.com>;
> "j_saelea at yahoo.com" <j_saelea at yahoo.com>; "yoko.ebisawa at undp.org" <
> yoko.ebisawa at undp.org>; "bbago at mdpac.gov.sb" <bbago at mdpac.gov.sb>; "
> jrouhanna at yahoo.com" <jrouhanna at yahoo.com>; "c_tatapu at mines.gov.sb" <
> c_tatapu at mines.gov.sb>; "bpitakia at solomon.com.sb" <bpitakia at solomon.com.sb>;
> "woodzie4411 at gmail.com" <woodzie4411 at gmail.com>; "phasikag at gmail.com" <
> phasikag at gmail.com>; "charles.oloka at undp.org" <charles.oloka at undp.org>; "
> rmkaro at gmail.com" <rmkaro at gmail.com>; "freddymakabo at gmail.com" <
> freddymakabo at gmail.com>; "vilisi at sopac.org" <vilisi at sopac.org>; "Vuki
> Buadromo" <vukib at spc.int>
> Cc: "Russell Howorth" <russell at sopac.org>; "conwaypene.sopac at gmail.com" <
> conwaypene.sopac at gmail.com>; "Dalton Hone" <tillyhone at gmail.com>
> Sent: 3/5/2013 6:20:40 PM
> Subject: Re: Solomon Islands GIS Users Meeting - March 6th 2013
>
>  Hi All,
>
> In preparations for tomorrow's GIS users meetings, the Ministry of Mines,
> Energy and Rural Electrification GIS server is online and you can visit it
> to check out some of the things Carlos Tatapu and our team will be talking
> about tomorrow.
>
> There is still a lot more content to be added but here is something to
> start with and work is ongoing, click here http://202.1.180.107/
>
> Further to that, you can also find information on the Pacific Chapter of
> Open Source GeoSpatial Foundation here
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Pacific_Islands_Chapter that has link to above
> initiative.
>
> The beauty of this system is that it is transferable can be replicated at
> any government ministry or utility or non-profit and its fully Open Source.
>
> In view of a National GIS for the Solomon Islands, this is a great avenue
> to be adopted and we have local capacity here to carry it through, namely
> Mr. Brian Pitakia, Mr. Carlos Tatapu and Mr. Japhliet Rouhanna.
>
> Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Edwin
>
> ------ Original Message ------
> From: "Edwin Liava'a" <liavaa.edwin at gmail.com>
> To: "wolf forstreuter" <wforstreuter at yahoo.co.uk>; "MiaR at spc.int" <
> MiaR at spc.int>; "jvaikota at lands.gov.sb" <jvaikota at lands.gov.sb>; "
> bjoern.hecht at giz.de" <bjoern.hecht at giz.de>; "drove at planning.gov.sb" <
> drove at planning.gov.sb>; "okekiniNTU at gmail.com" <okekiniNTU at gmail.com>; "
> ttitiulu at yahoo.com.au" <ttitiulu at yahoo.com.au>; "gkofana at yahoo.com" <
> gkofana at yahoo.com>; "misimakarobert at gmail.com" <misimakarobert at gmail.com>;
> "j_saelea at yahoo.com" <j_saelea at yahoo.com>; "yoko.ebisawa at undp.org" <
> yoko.ebisawa at undp.org>; "bbago at mdpac.gov.sb" <bbago at mdpac.gov.sb>; "
> jrouhanna at yahoo.com" <jrouhanna at yahoo.com>; "c_tatapu at mines.gov.sb" <
> c_tatapu at mines.gov.sb>; "bpitakia at solomon.com.sb" <bpitakia at solomon.com.sb>;
> "woodzie4411 at gmail.com" <woodzie4411 at gmail.com>; "phasikag at gmail.com" <
> phasikag at gmail.com>; "charles.oloka at undp.org" <charles.oloka at undp.org>; "
> rmkaro at gmail.com" <rmkaro at gmail.com>; "freddymakabo at gmail.com" <
> freddymakabo at gmail.com>; "vilisi at sopac.org" <vilisi at sopac.org>; "Vuki
> Buadromo" <vukib at spc.int>
> Sent: 3/4/2013 11:49:26 AM
> Subject: Solomon Islands GIS Users Meeting - March 6th 2013
>
>  Hi All,
>
> We are currently moving ahead with Ministry of Mines & Energy QGIS Server
> and would on their behalf invite you to meet with us here on Wednesday the
> 6th, whereby Carlos will showcase the QGIS server with centralized PostGIS
> database with multiple access over the LAN using QGIS and also Web browser
> Web Map Service (WMS) .
>
> Date: 6th March 2013
> Venue: Ministry of Mines & Energy, Lengakiki
> Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm
>
> Best regards,
>
> Edwin
>
> ------ Original Message ------
> From: "wolf forstreuter" <wforstreuter at yahoo.co.uk>
> To: "MiaR at spc.int" <MiaR at spc.int>; "bpitakia at myrealbox.com" <
> bpitakia at myrealbox.com>; "jvaikota at lands.gov.sb" <jvaikota at lands.gov.sb>;
> "bjoern.hecht at giz.de" <bjoern.hecht at giz.de>; "drove at planning.gov.sb" <
> drove at planning.gov.sb>; "okekiniNTU at gmail.com" <okekiniNTU at gmail.com>; "
> ttitiulu at yahoo.com.au" <ttitiulu at yahoo.com.au>; "gkofana at yahoo.com" <
> gkofana at yahoo.com>; "misimakarobert at gmail.com" <misimakarobert at gmail.com>;
> "j_saelea at yahoo.com" <j_saelea at yahoo.com>; "yoko.ebisawa at undp.org" <
> yoko.ebisawa at undp.org>; "bbago at mdpac.gov.sb" <bbago at mdpac.gov.sb>; "
> jrouhanna at yahoo.com" <jrouhanna at yahoo.com>; "c_tatapu at mines.gov.sb" <
> c_tatapu at mines.gov.sb>; "bpitakia at solomon.com.sb" <bpitakia at solomon.com.sb>;
> "woodzie4411 at gmail.com" <woodzie4411 at gmail.com>; "phasikag at gmail.com" <
> phasikag at gmail.com>; "charles.oloka at undp.org" <charles.oloka at undp.org>; "
> rmkaro at gmail.com" <rmkaro at gmail.com>; "freddymakabo at gmail.com" <
> freddymakabo at gmail.com>; "vilisi at sopac.org" <vilisi at sopac.org>; "
> liavaa.edwin at gmail.com" <liavaa.edwin at gmail.com>; "Vuki Buadromo" <
> vukib at spc.int>
> Sent: 2/17/2013 2:01:43 PM
> Subject: Edwin Liava’a, second Assignment
>
>   Hi All,
>
> Edwin is prepared to come over to Honiara again to assist in setting up
> the internal Solomon Islands GIS network and to enforce the link SOPAC Suva
> to Honiara. The purpose is to ensure the continuation of the joint land
> cover mapping task.
>
> He will bring an external hard drive with all data including all scanned
> soil maps and the latest soil maps digitised at SOPAC.
>
> He also will bring the open source GIS software QGIS to install wherever
> is need.
>
> Edwin would like to have a GIS&RS user meeting to bring everybody at the
> same information level, if this is also in interest of Solomon Islands GIS
> users. Somehow the mapping strategy should be discussed again including the
> establishment of a centralised server on national level with SOPAC as
> international backup facilitator.
>
> If there is demand addressed for a further QGIS Server or MapInfo GIS
> training Edwin can deliver a crash course as well, however, I assume that
> this is not necessary at this stage.
>
> Vilisi is preparing the travel, etc. for three Honiara GIS officers to
> come to Suva and carry out the 1:50,000 scale mapping at SOPAC like in
> November December last year:
>
>
>    - Mr. Andrew Melanolu - Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock
>    - Mr. Manasseh Haridi - Ministry of Lands
>    - Mr.Geoffrey Pakipota - Choiseul Provincial Government
>
>
> The three officers are covered by USAID funding. One additional officer
> from Forestry might get financed by GIZ.
>
> The 1:10,000 scale image data for Choiseul and Rennell did not arrive at
> SOPAC yet.
>
>
> Edwin further wants to see all parties who were not addressable shortly
> before Christmas, which we will try to prepare during this week.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wolf
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Dr Wolf Forstreuter
> *SOPAC (SPC)*
> *SECRETARIAT OF THE PACIFIC COMMUNITY*
> Applied Geoscience and Technology Division (SOPAC)
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>
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>
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