[Qgis-user] Forestry Week? (was Case sensitive)

[Jake Maier]

I just started using QGIS. I used a conservation copy of ArcMap before. Now
after a week or so on this list I can see that what I could do with ArcMap,
I will be able to do with QGIS. Therefore, I'll be using QGIS for all my
mapping needs.
That is I will delineate all stands, join soil information from a USDA
database to a soil polygons, draw lake and wetland buffers, and other basic
mapping tasks. I hope to extend to incorporate more database information to
the map like species density information and volume information. I guess
about all information in forestry has a spatial component therefore may be
and possibly should be incorporated in a GIS. For me that is a little work
in progress. :)
Jake

-----Original Message-----
From: Magnus Homann [mailto:magnus at homann.se] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 4:53 PM
To: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org; info at locatepress.com; j.m at jmforestry.com
Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Forestry Week? (was Case sensitive)

2012-03-13 20:03, Tyler Mitchell skrev:
> Much of my early GIS background was in forestry here in Western Canada.
> I think this week I've seen "forestry" mentioned 3-4 times on this 
> list.  I'd love to learn more about what folks are doing with QGIS in 
> forestry or other ecosystem management of natural resources.  Fire me 
> a note if you don't want to share on the list.

Here's a screenie of my Qgis use. Managing about 100 hectares of productive
forest with myself doing some work (precomercial thinning, thinning).

http://bayimg.com/eanFlAAdE

* Aerial photo (0.5m/pixel, color)
* Old survey map detailing measures and markers
* Parcels with info (se attribute table)
* Tracks from precomercial thinning (wearing my Garmin Forerunner 305 when
doing forestry work, makes it easy to kepp track what I've done)
* Roads, paths
* Layers detailing what has been planted, thinned, and cut down.
* Borders and markers, also exported to handheld GPS (and to Android phone
with Oruxmaps and google earth aerial in the background).
* Notes where I found old barbed wire.
* Notes of good places to pick mushroom... ;)

Standard QGIS, data stord in shapefiles.

Magnus