[Qgis-user] raspberry as a data logging platform for qgis

[Lee]

I am also in need of a similar setup. I've been looking at a few options.
I'm running into more free time this summer, and hoping I Can begin looking
a little harder at the Forestry Tools option (
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Forestry_Tools) and how I can begin developing
the platform I need to increase my effectiveness in the field.

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all the best,
Lee Mueller
ISA Certified Arborist
Registered Forester #46043





On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Tyler Mitchell <info at locatepress.com>wrote:

> Hi David (and Noli)  - I need this equipment too, better get my order in!
> :)
>
> Having the options for temporarily hooking up a display (when back at the
> truck), run off of modest mobile power sources and then sync back to an
> office db when back home... are some of the things I want to have running
> too.  I totally relate to your "cell thingy is not an option" comment - if
> something can't run offline then it's no use to many natural resource
> industries that are typically remote.  I also like the idea of being able
> to use some simple human input devices for capturing information - treating
> them like a keyboard on the Pi should be sooo simple.
>
> I'm old enough to remember the days of data loggers and learned to value
> them always chugging away in the background.  Many modern solutions require
> so much user and application intervention that it is certainly less
> inspiring.
>
> I'll have to start a topic at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Forestry_Tools -
> though it's obviously much bigger than forestry, it is a typical example
> users of arcpad style platforms.
>
> Got me thinking!
> Tyler
>
> p.s. I'm Canuck too - west coast.
>
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> On 2012-05-02, at 7:16 PM, David Delorme wrote:
>
> I have been thinking about and have ordered a Raspberry Pi.
> I have been looking for a low cost open source tough light solution for
> data gathering in the field.
> My work for many years was in forestry and mineral exploration. I used
> arcpad in the past on a hardened ipaq ie able to with stand getting beat
> around a bit and with stand -40 - +40c rain snow ice mud real life stuff it
> held up well considering the abuse i put it though. My  gis system at the
> time was Mapinfo/Grass with a postgresql back end. to hold points and other
> data and some GPS soft ware for data correction filtering.
>
> I would like to try to do this with a Raspberry, small screen, input
> device, Gps, possible a camera packaged in a tough case running Qgis.
> many areas i have worked are far from cell phone coverage some times
> 1000km so the cell thingy is not a option. i want a Linux response to Arcpad
>
> I would like to hear and thoughts or suggestions.
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