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

[Joseph Reeves]

Great, thanks Cameron,

Will you be making your presentation publicly available after the
event? It seems that you're compiling a lot of good information that
will be valuable to a large number of us.

Cheers, Joseph




On 5 April 2010 11:56, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Cameron Shorter
>>>>> Geospatial Solutions Manager
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>>>>> Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254
>>>>>
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