[OSGeo Africa] open source GIS CD

[Gaby van Wyk]

Hi All

I don't think there is anything like IDRISI available as OSS. GRASS can do
most of what IDRISI offers, although the UI and basic approach is vastly
different. I have found that people are reluctant to work with GRASS,
especialy since the approach is sometimes cumbersome.

Gavin, why don't we arrange a series of hackfests, including one for GRASS.
(I especially would like to see us do a PostGIS one)

Gaby

On 6/15/06, Gavin Fleming <GavinF at mintek.co.za> wrote:

>  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.
>
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>
> 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.
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> Please advice on your findings and which one I can use for the learners.
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> Thank you
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> Ramsley Sono
> Learnership Co-ordinator
> CSIR
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> South Africa
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> >>> 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?
>
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>
> I'm aware of a few CDs: FreeGIS, UbuntiGIS, KnoppixGIS and a local
> compilation by Agileworks. What do you think of these?
>
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>
> What I'm after is something like the following, to promote and facilitate
> the availability and use of GIS in Africa:
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> - 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
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>
>
> 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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