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  • From: Michael Snow <msnow@valley.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Cc: Sustainable Agriculture Network Discussion Group <SANET-MG@LISTS.IFAS.UFL.EDU>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] GIS Revisited with permaculture, homesteading and market farming/gardening uses in mind.
  • Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:22:18 -0500

For your own farm, precise information layers can be most helpful, particularly if you're dealing with infrastructure like underground power lines and the like. Another spin on the use of GIS in (permaculture) design might be to use something a little more fuzzy to create conflict and then dialogue.

I had a GIS professor who did work in Central America. At one point, he was working with indigenous groups in Panama, helping them to define their territory to present to the central government. There were often disputes over boundaries between groups, at least in part because these territories were fluid. This professor took the least advanced technology with him, instead of taking the best available to him. Because the old stuff was imprecise, so were the boundaries each group drew - and this required the groups to sit down together to come to agreement. His intention was to create dialogue and build relationships between indigenous groups. If I remember right, he was pretty successful.

Mike
On Nov 15, 2008, at 6:16 PM, Lawrence F. London, Jr. wrote:


I'd like to start a thread on GIS and try to uncover technology that can be applied
to farms and land on which permaculture systems have been built.

Is it affordable for the non-corporate world?

Is there equipment and software available that a properly informed farmer or permaculturist can
use to log, with GIS coordinates plus calculated space within identified areas (with GIS device, walk off
the perimeter of an area such as a garden or a bed within a garden, calcuate the area within and give it an ID
corresponding to its GIS coordinates)? This data could be entered into a database as a record with an array of
appropriate fields.

It seems this technology could have unlimited uses. It would be a complex system or reduced to a fairly simple one.

Questions:

What equipment is available?
What software is available?
What can be done in house without hiring an outside specialist?
Can GIS data be exported to a laptop?

LFLondon
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