[OSGeo Africa] building a GIS workstation using free and open source software

[Josh Livni]

While it's not the most user-friendly site (yet), I've started putting 
together a wiki that I hope will become a fairly robust set of basic 
tutorials, screencasts, and the like for some of the OS GIS stack.  It's 
currently at http://os.umbrellaconsulting.com

I just started putting it together last week - the current stuff up 
there is meager, and there's no pretty pictures -- but I'd love to get 
feedback (and even contributions!)

Let me know if you find it useful, and how it could become moreso.  I 
intend to spend a few hours each week and slowly make it into a great 
resource. 

Cheers,

  -Josh

Gavin Fleming wrote:
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> building a GIS workstation using free and open source software
>
> -- see Matt Perry's blog - Turning Ubuntu into a GIS workstation 
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> http://www.perrygeo.net/wordpress/?p=10
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> The instructions take Ubuntu 7.10 and add the following desktop GIS 
> applications:
> Postgresql/PostGIS : a relational database with vector spatial data 
> handling
> GRASS : A full blown GIS analysis toolset
> Quantum GIS: A user-friendly graphical GIS application
> GDAL, Proj, Geos : Libraries and utilities for processing spatial data
> Mapserver : web mapping program and utilites
> Python bindings for QGIS, mapserver and GDAL
> GPSBabel : for converting between various GPS formats
> R : a high-end statistics package with spatial capabilities
> GMT : the Generic Mapping Tools for automated high-quality map output 
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> (If some on this list try following the instructions, please let the 
> list know how you got on with it)
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