On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Ramnarayan.K <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ramnarayan.k@gmail.com">ramnarayan.k@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Thanks<br><br>. shp mostly<br></blockquote><div><br>Ah! If you have stuff in .shp already, thats fun! Are the .shp files geo-referenced? What kind of data is it?<br><br>Sorry for asking all these questions:) - Nice datasets are always good -- I'd be happy to get you started with GeoDjango / web-stuff if you want to go in that direction - its actually really simple to get the data visualized on the web and have simple tools to add annotations and edit polygons / points.<br> <br>Best of luck,<br>Sanjay<br><br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>will look at all the stuff, and i guess only when we start working will we know what from which <br> <br>regards<br>ram<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Sanjay Bhangar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sanjaybhangar@gmail.com" target="_blank">sanjaybhangar@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div>On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Ramnarayan.K <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ramnarayan.k@gmail.com" target="_blank">ramnarayan.k@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> </div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi<br>Thanks<div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Sanjay Bhangar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sanjaybhangar@gmail.com" target="_blank">sanjaybhangar@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="gmail_quote"><div>Dont think there is a 'GIS distro', though it might be cool if you package one after installing all the stuff :-D<br><br>What exactly do you need to do ? <br>Here's some stuff I could think of that's probably useful:<br> sudo apt-get install qgis qgis-plugin-grass grass grass-dev gdal-bin python-gdal postgresql-8.3-postgis<br><br>If you want to do web stuff, I would recommend the GeoDjango frame-work .<br><br></div></div></blockquote></div> </div> will install all that<br><br>we have some bit of archived material, raw and well finished and we wanted to be able to see them, manipulate them etc<br></blockquote></div><div><br>What format is this material in? Try QuantumGIS (qgis), and you should be able to import and export shape files (.shp) . If by any chance your material is in autocad files, (.dwg), there are tools to convert this into .shp files, and then import them into a GPS tool. You can also try TangoGPS, which I haven't used myself.<br> </div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>add on new data, layers, <br><br>like the new maps that NASA has just released.<br> <br>import GPS points directly onto a layer etc<br><br>am a GIS novice, most of the work was done by others and on closed systems but i want to make sure as much works on Ubuntu.<br></blockquote></div><div><br>I'm really having a good time working with GeoDjango and OpenLayers to do web-based stuff like that. If you have some developer skills, its not so hard. Else, I think QGis is probably what you're looking for - explore TangoGPS, and also i think JOSM is a good user-friendly java-based tool to work with your data with Open Street Maps ..<br> <br></div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>am not sure of what all but right now want to install everything because once i get home won't have access to broadband to install</blockquote> </div><div><br>If you want to work with gps devices, apt-get gpsd and gpsbabel as well.<br><br>If you do have a lot of data that you want to work with, setting things up can be a bit hairy and complicated with different projections of data and other GIS stuff .. feel free to ping me, but am not really an expert with that stuff..<br> <br>take care,<br>Sanjay<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br> <br>regards<div><br>ram<br> <br>--<br> ubuntu-in mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in</a><br> <br></div></blockquote></div><br> <br>--<br> ubuntu-in mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in</a><br> <br></blockquote></div><br> </div></div><br>--<br> ubuntu-in mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in</a><br> <br></blockquote></div><br>