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

[Cameron Shorter]

Joseph,
These Oxford Archaeology guides provide some excellent material for an 
Open Source Surveyors presentation. Thanks for the link.

Joseph Reeves wrote:
> 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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>>>> Cameron Shorter
>>>> Geospatial Solutions Manager
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Cameron Shorter
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