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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">David, </font> </p>
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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">I've been impressed with the porting of QGIS to Android. I haven't fielded it at all, and have only tested it for my own interest, but it another viable option to your described use. I've been using it on a Toshiba Thrive Android Tablet.</font> </p>
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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">bobb</font> </p>
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>>> David Delorme <dmdelorme100@yahoo.ca> wrote:<br> </p>
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I have been thinking about and have ordered a Raspberry Pi.<br> </p>
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I have been looking for a low cost open source tough light solution for data gathering in the field.<br>My work for many years was in forestry and mineral exploration. I used arcpad in the past on a hardened ipaq ie able to with stand getting beat around a bit and with stand -40 - +40c rain snow ice mud real life stuff it held up well considering the abuse i put it though. My gis system at the time was Mapinfo/Grass with a postgresql back end. to hold points and other data and some GPS soft ware for data correction filtering.<br><br>I would like to try to do this with a Raspberry, small screen, input device, Gps, possible a camera packaged in a tough case running Qgis.<br>many areas i have worked are far from cell phone coverage some times 1000km so the cell thingy is not a option. i want a Linux response to Arcpad<br><br>I would like to hear and thoughts or suggestions.<br>
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