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  • From: christopher nesbitt <christopher.nesbitt@mmrfbz.org>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] GIS Revisited with permaculture, homesteading and market farming/gardening uses in mind.
  • Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:17:22 -0600

I now a little about this. I have a friend who doe GIS work here in Belize. He does it out of an old vanagon, and it involves a GPS, a laptop, and some software. The software, I have no idea how much it costs, but he is doing it on a 14 inch iBook with either a Magellan or Garmin GPS. His van has a solar panel on the roof, really low tech.

They had a project here, ESTAP, which did mapping, and they had layers, property lines, soil types, vegetation, it was very impressive, but that was 10 years ago. Now it is much cheaper.


Equipment is just a GPS
Sofware, I do Mac, and http://www.openosx.com/grass/ has Mac GIS software for USD50-229. http://www.esri.com/ has stuff for PCs
Any laptop with enough memory and space on the hard drive (and software!) can do GIS

Good luck,

Christopher

On Nov 15, 2008, at 5:16 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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