Total Open Station

[Joseph Reeves]

Gratuitous blog spamming aside, Luca Bianconi has just helped me get
Total Open Station on the Openmoko platform:

http://blogs.thehumanjourney.net/finds/entry/2

"The FreeRunner has a USB host port; you simply plug your phone into
the Total Station, download the data and send it over the mobile
network to our survey database in the office. No computers, no messing
about, just data from the field to the office ASAP. We don't have to
worry about laptops and the like; everyone will have the tools
necessary to get the job done."

Thanks to all involved for a really exciting piece of software, my
mind's racing about the future possibilities of it.

Joseph



On 18/03/2008, Luca Bezzi <luca.bezzi@arc-team.com> wrote:
> Hi Stefano,
>
> I think this project is really interesting.
>
> If you want we can help testing it with our two total station (Geodimeter
> 500 and Foucs 10), but i think i can try it also with the total station of
> the university of Innsbruck, Pisa and Padua, when i work for them (but
> before i have to ask). When the software is ready and working we can insert
> it in ArcheOS (if you agree). We released the second version (based on
> Ubuntu), but we are tensting a lot of new software we would like to insert
> in a new version that maybe we will release during the workshop of Padua.
>
> Nice greetings,
>
> Luca Bezzi
>
> Arc-Team
> Archaeology & Free Software
> http://www.arc-team.com/
> luca.bezzi@arc-team.com
>
>
> On Fre Mar 14 18:20 , Stefano Costa sent:
>
> Dear all,
>  this e-mail is to inform you about a new software project that I started
>  writing recently. The project is called Total Open Station. From the
>  README:
>
>  """
>  I started writing this program for making it easier to manage different
>  models of total stations in a GNU/Linux environment. However, I try to
>  develop following standards, so porting to Windows or Mac shouldn't be
>  difficult.
>
>  Every model has its own quirks. So, I decided to use a modular
>  structure, that is based on an abstract interface. Each time a new model
>  is added to the program, you create a new instance of this base class,
>  with all needed data.
>  """
>
>  Total Open Station is developed with the Python programming language.
>  For those who are interested in participating the project website is at
>
>  http://sharesource.org/project/totalopenstation/
>
>  The (few lines of) code that I have written as of today are here in a
>  Mercurial repository:
>
>  http://hg.sharesource.org/totalopenstation/
>
>  Let me know if you want to help - even a test with your total station is
>  welcome!
>
>  Best regards,
>  Stefano
>
>  --
>  Stefano Costa
>  http://www.iosa.it Archeologia e Software Libero
>  Io uso Debian GNU/Linux!
>
>
>  --
>  Mailing list info:
> http://lists.linux.it/listinfo/archaeology
>
>
>
>
>
>
>  --
>  Mailing list info:
> http://lists.linux.it/listinfo/archaeology
>
>