[Qgis-developer] CyberTracker integration

[Antonio Locandro]

Thats understandable the differences, now Justin can you specify more about how would you like to make the integration
 
I am thinking you would probably want to do the data collection using CyberTracker, then export it or download it to be used within QGIS. Now what is it that you would want to do with the data inside QGIS? Depending on your goals you may want to create a plugin that would take the data and do certain predefined analysis
 
Regards
Antonio Locandro





 
From: justin at steventon.com
To: antoniolocandro at hotmail.com; madmanwoo at gmail.com
CC: qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: RE: [Qgis-developer] CyberTracker integration
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2013 13:47:37 -0700

Hi Antonio, Yes, similar to Fulcrum. I’ve been following them for a while now and think they are doing a lot of things right. They’re missing a few components that are important for us, e.g. full offline (for security) and support for a number of in-field scenarios. It’s possible these features will be created over time. The proprietary nature of Fulcrum would tend to turn off some potential groups in the same way as it occasionally has for us.  So far, we have not seen meaningful support for low literate users in any major product. As more and more folks have smart phones, this may pick up.  Cheers,-Justin From: Antonio Locandro [mailto:antoniolocandro at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, July 7, 2013 8:54 AM
To: Justin Steventon; 'Nathan Woodrow'
Cc: qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: RE: [Qgis-developer] CyberTracker integration Hi Justin I think your project seems a little bit similar to http://fulcrumapp.com/   http://fulcrumapp.com/features/  for field data collection, maybe just missing the part for people who can read or write What they do is capture data using custom forms on the field and then you sync over the internet on the cloud, once on a computer you can export the data to use with GIS software and create PDF reports Probably a similar approach? 
Antonio Locandro



From: justin at steventon.com
To: madmanwoo at gmail.com
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2013 23:07:25 -0700
CC: qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] CyberTracker integrationThat’s true, I missed the concept of a form in the description on the site.  My interest is in a rich, user friendly data capture experience, especially for cases where the field user is not a QGIS user and may not be able to read or write. Our studies indicate that this is also a more efficient way to capture data for literate users. Over the years we’ve rolled our own mini-GIS for the desktop, but the scalability of this approach is clearly limited. Since we’re a non-profit and in the process of opening our code, it makes sense to leverage an existing system. Of the solutions I have investigated, QGIS seems most aligned at the technical level. We do bring some interesting work to the table. Our client supports Windows Mobile and Android and has a large library of customizable UI components which can capture many different data types, including images and sound. There is also support for timer tracks and a field map. I’m pretty new to the Open Source community, so apologies if this is off. I’m probably going about this all wrong. Cheers,-Justin From: Nathan Woodrow [mailto:madmanwoo at gmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, July 6, 2013 10:24 PM
To: Justin Steventon
Cc: qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] CyberTracker integration My project isn't about putting QGIS onto PDA.  QGIS doesn't run on PDAs and I doubt it ever will. QMap is meant to be a field collection version of QGIS. - Nathan On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Justin Steventon <justin at steventon.com> wrote:Thanks Jürgen, I see Nathan’s project is really about putting a stripped down version of QGIS onto a PDA. Nevertheless, it’s impressive. CyberTracker is designed more as a data capture conduit – highly customizable UI (via XML) that can be used even by low-literate folks. Integration with QGIS would be great. If anyone is interested in a collaboration, please let me know. Cheers,-Justin  
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