Difference between revisions of "Developing Geospatial Solutions using Open Source"

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== Approach for writing this book ==
 
== Approach for writing this book ==
  
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We will start writing this book by listing practical development problems and then identifying how free geospatial tools can be used to solve those problems.  
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Using the application categories from http://freegis.org we'll gather problems or use cases, maybe divide them into subproblems, and describe how they can be solved using the free tools.
  
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We need to list the tools and link to pages, which describe their general capabilities. http://freegis.org has a good list, which contains short descriptions and it has a quite good classification scheme with the only problem that it seems not possible make complex queries. Probably it would be a good idea to share the ontology as much as possible.
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The tools are [[Programming Languages Project|programming languages]], libraries, command line tools, and customizable applications.
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We'd like to develop this page somehow coordinated with the [[Programming Languages Project]]
 
  
 
== GPS related ==
 
== GPS related ==

Revision as of 11:05, 30 August 2006

This is one of the three books identified by the Education and Curriculum Committee that should be written. The other books are Using open source GIS and Developing web mapping solutions using open source.

Approach for writing this book

Using the application categories from http://freegis.org we'll gather problems or use cases, maybe divide them into subproblems, and describe how they can be solved using the free tools.

The tools are programming languages, libraries, command line tools, and customizable applications.

GPS related

  • Problem: Share GPS data between applications
    • Subproblem: Parse GPX
    • Explanation: GPX is an XML application for GPS data. Parsing gives us the GPS data.
  • Problem:
    • Subproblem: GeoTag Media
    • Explanation:
  • Problem:
    • Subproblem: Track logs
    • Explanation:


Use case Description Perl Ruby Python
Parse GPX What is GPX? Perl based solution Ruby based solution PyGPX
GeoTag Media RDFWeb geoloc_media.pl (original geoloc_media) Ruby? Python?
Track logs Geo::Track::Log Ruby Python
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