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Situation: – In a student project, we are building a cataster/registry of pollard trees. – We have geolocations of many trees and now we want to collect data about these trees in the field. – We want to use open source software and lowcost equipment: an efficient solution, basically.

What we have: – We are using QGIS for analysis – We have tablets running Windows 8.1 and QGIS – Optionally we have external Bluetooth GPS sensors (but the tablets have internal GPS sensors as well)

What we are able to do: – Use a customizes QGIS with an entry form in the field, to gather attribute data (got that already)

Questions, what we are lacking: – Is there a good way to capture images of trees with the tablet camera in the field AND link them to tree data? Maybe a plugin or script or something? – Is there a way to get the tablet internal GPS sensor working with Windows 8.1?

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This is a bit of self promotion but this is exactly what I built Roam (version) for.

Roam is built on QGIS with Python. It's a fully standalone Python application (apart from the making the maps for which you need QGIS installed).

EDIT Due to Windows 8 GPS and how it works you have to use a tool called centrafuse localizer into order to expose the GPS to a COM port. It's cheap and has worked for me.

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If you have your own application, you can see how I have done the camera stuff here: https://github.com/DMS-Aus/Roam/tree/master/src/roam/editorwidgets (It uses a third part lib vidcap.pyd with the Python wrapper)

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  • As you responded, I have looked into your tool already… I am still wrangling with 2 things: 1. Windows 8.1 Location API does not provide COM Port, I guess, we have to use an external GPS Logger 2. Is there a way to register new points using roam? Could be, that people in the field discover new trees…
    – Lars
    Commented Apr 18, 2015 at 9:42
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    For 1. see edit, and 2. of course that is the whole point of it. Follow this: roam-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/admin-guide/projectadmin
    – Nathan W
    Commented Apr 18, 2015 at 23:35
  • @NathanW may I ask you about the tablet or ultrabook you are using and would reccomend?
    – Paulo Cardoso
    Commented Feb 25, 2016 at 15:11
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Check out MapIt - GIS Data Collector

It is not dependent on any web or desktop applications; incoming and outgoing files for Mapit can cook and work in that geographic information system, which you prefer e.g. qGIS. Mapit has built a Form Designer: You can set the necessary fields and values ​​directly on the tablet or smartphone. Mapit able to import, create, edit and export points, lines and polygons; you can use the online service raster maps (eg, Google Maps or Open Street Map) or off-line tail cache; manager available flexible layers. Documentation is a simple but comprehensive and well illustrated…

MapIt - Main Functions Schema

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