[OSGeo-Discuss] What GeoSpatial Open Source Software do Surveyors use?

[Joseph Reeves]

Hi Cameron,

You might find these Oxford Archaeology produced guides interesting:

http://openarchaeology.net/project/survey-and-gis-manual

There's also the MapAction Field Guide to Humanitarian Mapping:

http://www.mapaction.org/content/view/183/59/

If you're looking for a couple of real feel good use cases (although I
can imagine it may not be 100% applicable to what you're doing),
there's the amazing work conducted by various people (Mikel Maron and
Robert Soden spring immediately to mind, although there are many more)
mapping Haiti and Kibera, Kenya into OpenStreetMap.

Cheers, Joseph



On 1 April 2010 21:00, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Chris, it would count if Total Open Station was more stable (reported
> as alpha software on the website).
>
> I'm wanting to convince Open Source skeptics that there is robust Open
> Source Software available for surveyors which they can use right now.
>
> Eg, here is a list of tasks that surveyors regularly perform:
>
> Task 1:
> * XXX organisation (ideally big name organisation), uses YYY OS software to
> achieve task.
>
> Task 2:
> ...
>
> Chris Puttick wrote:
>>
>> Well we have surveyors trialling Total Open Station into gvSIG and people
>> using Leica's software into gvSIG; I guess here is the message that "into
>> GIS" is a move forward for all but building survey and that there are open
>> source GIS packages well up to the job.
>>
>> And for building survey? Well, we're doing some work with various open
>> source tools to generate dense point clouds from photos; we think the
>> resulting output could reach millimetre accuracy using known cameras/lenses
>> and with many shots. Photograph, process, measure at your leisure... And a
>> lovely 3D photo-realistic model for client as an output too!
>>
>> Does that count?
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> ----- "Cameron Shorter" <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> I'm giving a presentation on GeoSpatial Open Source at the
>>> international Surveyors conference here in Sydney.
>>> http://www.fig2010.com/
>>>
>>> I'd like advice on what use cases and Open Source packages I should focus
>>> on during the presentation.
>>> Feedback from Surveyors welcomed.
>>>
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