<div dir="ltr">Hi Justin<div><br></div><div>Having a cybertracker sequence generator in QGIS would be great. In general for open source the way to go is to build something that solves your own needs and then put it out there for others to use and contribute to. You will probably get much more useful and directed feedback if people have something (even an initial prototype) to play with that they can then kick the tyres and give you pointers on what additions would make it more useful.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>Tim<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Justin Steventon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:justin@steventon.com" target="_blank">justin@steventon.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">That’s true, I missed the concept of a form in the description on the site. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">My interest is in a rich, user friendly data capture experience, especially for cases where the field user is not a QGIS user and may not be able to read or write. Our studies indicate that this is also a more efficient way to capture data for literate users. Over the years we’ve rolled our own mini-GIS for the desktop, but the scalability of this approach is clearly limited. Since we’re a non-profit and in the process of opening our code, it makes sense to leverage an existing system. Of the solutions I have investigated, QGIS seems most aligned at the technical level.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">We do bring some interesting work to the table. Our client supports Windows Mobile and Android and has a large library of customizable UI components which can capture many different data types, including images and sound. There is also support for timer tracks and a field map.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I’m pretty new to the Open Source community, so apologies if this is off. I’m probably going about this all wrong.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Cheers,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">-Justin<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Nathan Woodrow [mailto:<a href="mailto:madmanwoo@gmail.com" target="_blank">madmanwoo@gmail.com</a>] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, July 6, 2013 10:24 PM<br><b>To:</b> Justin Steventon<br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Qgis-developer] CyberTracker integration<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><div><div class="h5"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">My project isn't about putting QGIS onto PDA. QGIS doesn't run on PDAs and I doubt it ever will.<u></u><u></u></p><div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">QMap is meant to be a field collection version of QGIS.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">
- Nathan<u></u><u></u></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Justin Steventon <<a href="mailto:justin@steventon.com" target="_blank">justin@steventon.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
<div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks Jürgen,<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I see Nathan’s project is really about putting a stripped down version of QGIS onto a PDA. Nevertheless, it’s impressive.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">CyberTracker is designed more as a data capture conduit – highly customizable UI (via XML) that can be used even by low-literate folks. Integration with QGIS would be great.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">If anyone is interested in a collaboration, please let me know.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Cheers,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-Justin<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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