[Aust-NZ] Introduction: Simon Cropper (Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd)

[Jody Garnett]

Welcome; and thanks for the nice background.

I think you will find the group in Victoria to be active in the
Melbourne area as they occasionally organize a get together.

Jody

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Simon Cropper
<scropper at botanicusaustralia.com.au> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is a quick introduction. My name is Simon Cropper and I run a small
> ecological consultancy in Victoria (see webpage if interested).
>
> I conduct flora and fauna surveys and do vegetation mapping within south-east
> Australia. Nearly every job I conduct I use GIS to help collect, synchronise,
> analyse and present spatial data. I have used GIS in over 100 projects.
>
> Over the last 15 years I have used ArcView but recently replaced this with
> gvSIG Desktop. I use this GIS on Vista (on a tablet PC) and on my Ubuntu
> Desktop.
>
> Since adopting gvSIG, following an extensive review of FOSS GIS Desktop
> systems, I have been actively involved in this community (creating tutorials,
> helping with translations, reporting bugs, helping on the mail list, etc). I
> am preparing some Australian tutorials for this ostensibly Spanish system.
> This and other technological publications are being released on my website
> (see webpage if interested under the Technology Section).
>
> I also dabble in the use of QGIS, OpenJUMP, SAGA, Sextante, GDAL, Kosmo, GRASS
> and FWTools/OpenEV.
>
> I have submitted a paper to the next issue of OSGeo Journal (in draft) and
> another paper to the Conference Newsletter for the gvSIG 2010 Conference later
> this year (also in draft) on the topic "gvSIG a robust and reliable
> alternative to ArcView". The first paper is essentially an outline of my
> typical workflow and whether a particular package can do that task. The second
> paper is a list of the last 5-6 projects (big and small), what I need a GIS to
> do and how gvSIG performed doing it. My comments are predominantly positive
> although I don't shirk at telling it as it is when a problem is identified.
>
> So, that's me...    well the short version anyway.
>
> I look forward to participating in this local chapter of OSGeo and getting to
> know others on the list a bit better.
>
> --
> Cheers Simon
>
>        Simon Cropper
>        Botanicus Australia Pty Ltd
>        PO Box 160 Sunshine 3020
>        P: 03 9311 5822. M: 041 830 3437
>        W: http://www.botanicusaustralia.com.au
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