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

[Lee]

I am a practicing forester in Michigan. I work primarily with private
landowners and consultants on traditional forestry issues such as wildlife,
recreation, and timber production. I also have a tendency to work in urban
green infrastructure development. In both cases, QGIS has proved quite
useful.

My traditional forestry uses are very similar to that of Jake's.

I use QGIS to identify forested parcels, join soil layers, view aerial
photography, map sample plots, identify and delineate stands, map water
features, map roads, generate land ownership maps and forest maps for
management plans, and other associated forestry spatial analyses.

I have also found QGIS able to perform all associated forestry tasks that
used to be accomplished by ArcMap. However, I feel a plugin could be
developed further to create functionality similar to many of the commercial
forestry inventory software. I hope to look at this potential a little more
in depth as my schedule clears up.

I also am interested in what is going on in Switzerland. Perhaps some of
the tools I desire have already been developed?

--
all the best,
Lee Mueller
Registered Forester #46043





On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Jake Maier <j.m at jmforestry.com> wrote:

> I just installed it on my Nexus Prime. It has a 4.6" screen, and it seems
> to me, the screen is too small to run the program.
> Some screens don't show the OK button and you have to kill the program to
> get out of it. The program may need Tablets with larger screens.
> Jake
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:
> qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Andreas Neumann
> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 4:50 PM
> To: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Forestry Week? (was Case sensitive)
>
> Hi Tyler,
>
> Marco Bernasocchi is working on QGIS for Android - and is always looking
> for sponsors ;-)
>
> It works like QGIS on Desktop - but Python is not yet available. You, can
> however use custom forms, Spatialite and the Offline editing plugin, which
> can synchronize between a central Postgis data warehouse and spatialite for
> mobile workers. Postgis is also supported, but you would need a permanent
> network connection.
>
> It probably would need some real world testing, but it looks promising.
> You need at least a phone with a display size like the Samsung Galaxy
> Notes or a real tablet, like the Panasonic Toughpad.
>
> If you have specific questions, please contact Marco Bernasocchi directly
> or use http://hub.qgis.org/projects/android-qgis
>
> Hope this helps,
> Andreas
>
> BTW: in Switzerland there is a whole group of Forestry engineers that
> collaborate on the training of QGIS for forestry engineers and the
> development of tools.
>
> On 03/13/2012 08:03 PM, Tyler Mitchell wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > I have friends that I help who are working in forestry who are using
> > QGIS to visualise all their GPS traverses for harvest block and road
> layout.
> > They are also printing maps for field crews where necessary, but
> > mostly are all digital.  The only hiccup they have is using ArcPad on
> > their Trimble based GPS handhelds, which has actually added complexity.
> >
> > If you have other suggested workflows that you are using for form
> > based data capture and then syncing with data in QGIS somehow, I'd
> > love to hear it :)
> >
> > Tyler
> >
> >
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> >
> >
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