[OSGeo-Discuss] Request for help with OS farm and ranch mapping tool.

[Abe Collins]

Hello OS GIS community,

My name is Abe Collins.  I am a grazier and farmer in St. Albans, VT.

I belong to a community of farmers and graziers around the world who are
focused on improving soil health, reversing desertification, sequestering
carbon in soils and enhancing provision of environmental services to
communities through innovative grazing and agricultural management.

I've been working on the beginnings of a free and open source farm and ranch
mapping tool called New Soil Land Planner.
http://newsoilnet.ning.com/page/farm-mapping-tool

It is embedded within a social network, the purpose of which is to
facilitate grazing and agricultural management that improves soil health.
newsoilnet.ning.com

Everything above is in very early phases, but as soon as we have basic
functionality on the land planner tool, we will be releasing the bundle to a
sizable group of agricultural innovators to see what the regenerative
agriculture community can do with these tools and networking capacities.
 Our hopes are high.

I've had some good help from Bill Morris of Geosprocket Spatial Solutions.
http://www.geosprocket.com/portfolio/
He has written much of the existing code for the New Soil Land Planner and
for the New Soil Analysis tool, a companion project.

The New Soil Analysis tool draws from the soils and topographical datasets
created by the Soil Information System (SIS).
http://www.soilinfo.com/  The SIS offers unprecedented accuracy and
precision in soil properties mapping.  The SIS has mostly been used for
precision agriculture so far.  It has a lot of potential to reliably drive
environmental modeling of watersheds.

We eventually intend to use SIS data from regeneratively managed farms and
ranches to conduct research and environmental modeling at the watershed
level, generating alternate watershed function and environmental services
provision scenarios.

 Bill has to turn to other projects now, so I am turning to the OS GIS
community to ask for further help.

I'm seeking advice, code ninja cognitive surplus and bids if necessary to
finish the Phase I New Soil Land Planner punch list and achieve the basic
level of functionality needed to engage beta agricultural users.  Much of
the work to be done requires experience in customizing OpenLayers.

Feedback, advice, coding per the punchlist and bids are much appreciated.

An outline of what we are seeking, a list of fixes and access to the code,
data and websites can be found in this google doc:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1est8q9fUldsY-d9jal97YeL6W_u2L84X8nL5j5N7bFk/edit?hl=en_US

Thanks for your consideration, and I welcome communications.

Abe

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Abe Collins
Founder
New Soil Matrix, Inc.
(802) 782-1883
Skype: abe.collins

"Do civilizations fall because the soil fails to produce - or does a soil
fail only when the people living on it no longer know how to manage their
civilization?"--*-Charles Kellog, Soils and Men, the 1938 United States
Department of Agriculture Yearbook of Agriculture*
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*"Every era has been shaped by its response to the great water challenge of
its time....those societies that find the most innovative responses to the
crisis are most likely to come out as winners." *
*--  Steven Solomon, Water - The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power and
Civilization*

"Man, despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication and his many
accomplishments, owes his existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the
fact that it rains."* ---Author Unknown*

“Land, then, is not merely soil; it is a fountain of energy flowing through
a circuit of soils, plants, and animals.” *---Aldo Leopold*

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-- 
Abe Collins
Founder
New Soil Matrix, Inc.
(802) 782-1883
Skype: abe.collins

"Do civilizations fall because the soil fails to produce - or does a soil
fail only when the people living on it no longer know how to manage their
civilization?"--*-Charles Kellog, Soils and Men, the 1938 United States
Department of Agriculture Yearbook of Agriculture*
*
*
*"Every era has been shaped by its response to the great water challenge of
its time....those societies that find the most innovative responses to the
crisis are most likely to come out as winners." *
*--  Steven Solomon, Water - The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power and
Civilization*

"Man, despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication and his many
accomplishments, owes his existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the
fact that it rains."* ---Author Unknown*

“Land, then, is not merely soil; it is a fountain of energy flowing through
a circuit of soils, plants, and animals.” *---Aldo Leopold*

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