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  • From: Chad Knepp <pyg AT galatea.org>
  • To: Permaculture Information Web <piw AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [piw] homesteaders
  • Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:06:11 -0600

Hi Joel,

I can't really read this. I think it might be interesting so could
you try and send it in plain text, not html?

Thanks,
Chad

joel gagnon writes:
> <html><div style='background-color:'><DIV class=RTE>
> <P>I have been homesteading for 27 years. There may be others on
> the list who would be willing to self-identify. Why do you ask?</P>
> <P>Joel Gagnon, West Danby, NY<BR><BR></P></DIV>From: "Lawrence
> F. London, Jr." &lt;lfl AT intrex.net&gt; <BR>Reply-To: Permaculture
> Information Web &lt;piw AT lists.ibiblio.org&gt; <BR>To:
> piw AT lists.ibiblio.org <BR>Subject: [piw] [Fwd: Re: [pcplantdb] Re:
> GIS] <BR>Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 01:48:40 -0800 <BR><BR><BR>Are
> there any homesteading gardeners in this list? Urban permaculture
> homesteaders OK. <BR><BR>-------- Original Message --------
> <BR>Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] Re: GIS <BR>Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005
> 01:38:52 -0800 <BR>From: Lawrence F. London,
> Jr. &lt;lfl AT intrex.net&gt; <BR>Reply-To: Permaculture Plant
> Database &lt;pcplantdb AT lists.ibiblio.org&gt; <BR><BR>Bear K wrote:
> <BR>&gt;&gt;&gt;I'd also like to say it seemed like a very good
> event. Met and <BR>&gt;&gt;&gt;talked with quite a few interesting
> people. One person (Mark) <BR>&gt;&gt;&gt;works with a guy (@
> onevillage.biz) who has done ecological GIS <BR>&gt;&gt;&gt;work in
> Kenya, etc and knows those systems very well. So good
> <BR>&gt;&gt;&gt;overlap with what Lawrence has been
> wanting. <BR>&gt;&gt; <BR>&gt;&gt; <BR>&gt;&gt;A GIS expert helping
> us would be a very valuable resource, usually <BR>&gt;&gt;hard to
> find <BR>&gt;&gt;for small projects and expensive (because of the
> high demand for <BR>&gt;&gt;GIS services, <BR>&gt;&gt;prices are
> very high). I wonder if there is a family of opensource
> <BR>&gt;&gt;GIS software <BR>&gt;&gt;products being developed?
> <BR>&gt; <BR>&gt;I've looked into it to some degree, and it seems
> there is... <BR>&gt;I can't pull all the links together right
> now... <BR><BR>Thanks. <BR><BR>&gt;This might get you started:
> <BR>&gt;http://opensourcegis.org/ <BR>&gt; <BR>&gt;Or the Virtual
> Terrian Project: <BR>&gt;http://www.vterrain.org/ <BR><BR>Just
> looked at this URL. To quote them: <BR><BR>"The goal of VTP is to
> foster the creation of tools for easily constructing any part of
> the real world in interactive, 3D digital form." <BR>and: <BR>"This
> goal will require a synergetic convergence of the fields of CAD,
> GIS, visual simulation, surveying and remote sensing. VTP gathers
> <BR>information and tracks progress in areas such as procedural
> scene construction, feature extraction, and rendering algorithms."
> <BR><BR>If VTP can "easily constructing any part of the real world
> in interactive, 3D digital form" with GIS coordinates for contour
> mapping, etc. <BR>and present this data in 3D format, could it or
> some software derived from it take "3 D" data,
> i.e. fauna/flora-habitat-environment <BR>information and present it
> in some three dimensional way similar to the way Touchgraph-like
> tools do? Say, if you (the user) could change <BR>something
> represented in one of the three dimensions represented in the image
> on your screen (like, for example change Johnson grass <BR>to
> pennyroyal) the data/image in the other two dimensions would change
> correspondingly (and maybe sprout branches of data to indicate
> <BR>other possibilities for displaying relationships 3
> dimensionally - maybe a data fractal would emerge to entrance the
> user. <BR><BR>Related to my notion of using PIW DB and GIS for
> market farmers, permaculturists and homesteaders is my notion of
> exploring plant culture <BR>methods on farmland (gardening) where
> data on existing land contours, land features, microclimates,
> drainage, exposure, land features and <BR>slopes, existing
> plantings, edge zones and native vegetation are cataloged and
> processed for graphical presentation of possibilities for
> <BR>planting locations and cultural methods (raised beds, row,
> orchard). I thought that with knowledge of this sort one could try
> out <BR>exotic planting schemes such as permanent notill raised
> beds in mandala and/or keyhole gardens laid out in a fractal
> pattern. <BR><BR>I have an array of exotic tractor tillage
> equipment that I can use to create the beginnings of gardening
> systems of this sort. I am about 2 <BR>acres of intensively
> prepared, very weedy soil into it so far. <BR><BR>LL <BR>--
> <BR>L.F.London <BR>lfl AT intrex.net <BR>http://market-farming.com
> <BR>http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech
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