[OSGeo-UK] MapAction requirements for QGIS plugins

[Antony Scott]

Hi all,

Just in time for the QGIS Hackfest in Brighton, FOSS4G in Nottingham, not to mention all the other excitement in Maptember, MapAction has put together some requirements for QGIS plugin(s) which come from its  RAMP project (Resilient Action for Mapping Preparedness), whose aim is to help build capacity in information management and GIS amongst agencies dealing with humanitarian disaster response.

The requirements which have been developed (and are still being added to), plus a prototype QGIS plugin which implements some of them, have now been published as a GitHub  repository (RAMP-QGIS) at https://github.com/mapaction/RAMP-QGIS.  The aim is to extend QGIS to support users in file and data management, and in metadata harvesting and exploitation, building on work done at an AGI/MapAction hackathon earlier in the year, and on internal MapAction development work.

We are hoping that developers and others will want to get involved either by contributing directly, or by helping us develop and manage the process - this model of development is new to MapAction, so any support we can get in making it productive both for us and others who might find the outputs useful will be really welcome.

We'll be posting elsewhere (e.g. the QGIS lists) to publicise the repository, but please pass this on to anyone who you think might be interested, and post any questions or comments either here or on the GitHub site.

Thanks

Ant Scott
MapAction
http://www.mapaction.org/



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