Many thanks to you all for this helpful information! Cheers,
Mathieu On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 12:44, Joseph Reeves <iknowjos...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss