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QGIS/GeoServer / Re: A possible combination of Open Source systems
« on: 17 January 2017, 17:03:26 »
I am contemplating using QGIS at home. I have a book entitled Desktop GIS: Mapping the Planet with Open Source Tools by Gary E. Sherman. It looks very technical and although I am an IT professional it is rather daunting. It concentrates on QGIS, Grass and PostGIS. The mapping terminology is another hurdle to vault.
I am a volunteer on the Know Your Place project which is based in Bristol. We are currently adding Tithe maps for Somerset, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire. I am fairly sure that the project uses QGIS.
The KYP site is worth looking at to see what is possible given the resources.
We start off by photographing the tithe maps with a special rig and hi-res camera.
These images are then distributed to volunteers who crop the images to the parish boundaries.
The images are then loaded onto the server like a jigsaw puzzle.
Other volunteers then use special software to Geolocate points on the maps that is to tell the server that point A on the tithe map equates to point B on the current OS map. When enough points are identified, the software can stretch the tithe map to fit the OS map and apresto you can compare the two maps (and others) online via the website.
I am a volunteer on the Know Your Place project which is based in Bristol. We are currently adding Tithe maps for Somerset, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire. I am fairly sure that the project uses QGIS.
The KYP site is worth looking at to see what is possible given the resources.
We start off by photographing the tithe maps with a special rig and hi-res camera.
These images are then distributed to volunteers who crop the images to the parish boundaries.
The images are then loaded onto the server like a jigsaw puzzle.
Other volunteers then use special software to Geolocate points on the maps that is to tell the server that point A on the tithe map equates to point B on the current OS map. When enough points are identified, the software can stretch the tithe map to fit the OS map and apresto you can compare the two maps (and others) online via the website.