Hi Mathieu, Expanding on Chris' point, you might want to check out the manuals we have here:
http://www.openarchaeology.net/project/survey-and-gis-manual Cameron Shorter mentioned them in a presentation he did - I seem to have lost all original links, but here's an embedded video: http://blogs.thehumanjourney.net/finds/entry/geospatial_open_source_for_surveyors And we have our own gvSIG release too: http://oadigital.net/software/gvsigoade Cheers, Joseph On 5 November 2010 10:21, Chris Puttick <chris.putt...@thehumanjourney.net> wrote: > You might be better on the Open Source Archaeology list :) > > http://list.iosa.it/ > > Speaking as a non-archaeologist working in archaeology, precision of > millimetre is nonsense, achieved or not, as (a) the things they are recording > were not built to that precision, nor in many built-structure cases even > designed and (b) stuff in the ground for that long has moved... > > CAD doesn't make sense, even though commonly used, as CAD (as any engineer > will tell you) is a design tool, not a recording tool. GIS makes much more > sense for the majority of recording as the data will require much analysis to > be really useful, and a map can be later produced via Inkscape. We have a > member of staff who's developed a nice survey workflow using QGIS and > Inkscape. > > Regards > > Chris (CIO, Oxford Archaeology :) ) > > ----- Original Message ----- >> Hello, >> >> I have been asked to analyze how FLOSS software could help to support >> an archaeological program that would take place in remote mountainous >> corners of Central Asia. >> >> I pretty much see which sensors and software to use for the small >> scale part, where standard GPS precision is enough. >> >> But the most important part is a large scale work, where they need a >> much higher precision in order to position their findings and draw >> very precise maps of the excavation sites. >> When they work in Europe they have sensors and are in a context which >> give them a precision of the millimeter. >> For this project they know that they won't have access to the same >> tooling and they could live with a precision of the centimeter. >> >> My questions to the list therefore are: >> - is it relevant to use "our" usual FOSS4G software (GRASS, QGIS, >> etc.) for such tasks? or do only CAD tools make sense? >> - do some of you have experience with sensors/methodologies which >> would provide centimeter order precision, be transportable and usable >> in remote areas and not too expensive? >> - more generally, if somebody has experience with similar >> problematics, I'd be very interested in pointers to documentation, >> software, sensors... >> >> I hope that I am not (too much) out of topic: I must say that it is >> not yet completely clear to me at how large a scale do GIS stop... >> >> Thanks in advance for your comments, >> >> Mathieu >> _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list >> Discuss@lists.osgeo.org >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > ------ > Files attached to this email may be in ISO 26300 format (OASIS Open Document > Format). If you have difficulty opening them, please visit > http://iso26300.info for more information. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss