[OSGeo Africa] open source GIS CD

[Gavin Fleming]

Open Source equivalent to Idrisi? I'm not aware of anything with a
similar interface, but you should be able to do everything that Idrisi
can do with GRASS. I think it would be great to develop some GRASS
skills in SA. 

 

Gavin

 

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From: Ramsley Sono [mailto:rsono at csir.co.za] 
Sent: 15 June 2006 12:15 PM
To: africa at africa.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo Africa] open source GIS CD

 

Hi Gavin

 

Please let me know when you find it. I have the Agileworks CD. I was
looking for an open source equivalent to Idrisi for the Learners her at
CSIR. 

 

Please advice on your findings and which one I can use for the learners.

 

Thank you

 

 

Ramsley Sono
Learnership Co-ordinator
CSIR
Meiring Naude Road
Brumeria
Pretoria
South Africa
P O Box 395
Pretoria
0001
+2712 841 2133
+2783 586 9013

>>> GavinF at mintek.co.za 15/06/2006 11:31:28 >>>

Hi al

 

Have any of you worked on or do you know about a good CD of OS GIS
resources that you'd recommend for distribution? Or, are you keen to
help develop one that we could all use?

 

I'm aware of a few CDs: FreeGIS, UbuntiGIS, KnoppixGIS and a local
compilation by Agileworks. What do you think of these?

 

What I'm after is something like the following, to promote and
facilitate the availability and use of GIS in Africa:

 

- simple interface to contents, perhaps html-browser driven.

- collection of recent, stable, popular/good OS GIS software binaries
for multiple platforms (min Windows and Linux). A complete suite from
desktop to spatial DB to web map server to analysis to image processing
to develop tools and libraries, etc.

- compilation or pointers to support material for installation and
configuration

- a collection of free data

- a collection of metadata, available through metadata software like
GeoNetwork desktop.

- standalone, but with extra resources that can be obtained if you have
a network connection. Many users will not be online.

- Nice to have: multilingual

- not a once-off - this can be a resource that we can update over time.

- everything as standards-compliant as possible

- the whole thing released under open content / open source licences

 

I'd appreciate any comments, offers of assistance or suggestions for
other content or good ideas for setting it up.

 

thanks

 

Gavin Fleming

GISSA Open Source SIG 

 

 

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