Total Open Station 0.3 was released today! What is Total Open Station? Total Open Station (TOPS for friends) is a free software program for downloading and processing data from total station devices.
If you don't know what a total station is, please read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_station to get an idea. The task of managing survey data is usually done by proprietary, dedicated and Windows™-only software, but TOPS is different by nature, because: * it is free software released under the GNU GPLv3 license; * it works on any operating system, including some mobile platforms (OpenMoko); * it is designed to support as many devices and formats as possible, all within the same program, opposed to having one program per device. Total Open Station is available as a Python source install for GNU/Linux and other UNIX systems (possibly including Mac OSX, feedback welcome), and as a binary installer for Microsoft Windows. Downloads and install instructions at http://tops.iosa.it/installing.html TOPS 0.3 is our first official release, and already has support for different input formats (there are lots of them out there). More formats will be supported in next releases, and user feedback is essential. Total Open Station is developed within the IOSA Project, and is written in Python. The website and documentation is at http://tops.iosa.it/ if you want to find out how to contribute or read more detailed documentation. Ciao, Stefano _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss