Comments on: Ecotrust Gains Trust of Fishermen for Fishing Maps http://www.vector1media.com/spatialsustain/ecotrust-gains-trust-of-fishermen-for-fishing-maps.html Promoting Spatial Design for a Sustainable Tomorrow Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:39:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tim Welch http://www.vector1media.com/spatialsustain/ecotrust-gains-trust-of-fishermen-for-fishing-maps.html/comment-page-1#comment-9557 Tim Welch Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:59:02 +0000 http://vector1media.com/spatialsustain/?p=1714#comment-9557 It's worth mentioning that Open OceanMap, the tool that received the award, is free and open source, which is a requirement for the Mellon Award. The idea of course is to make the tool available to the larger community to use and extend for their own purposes and improve the product overall. The desktop version is based on Quantum GIS and QT/PyQt. Without the fine work of those communities, this tool wouldn't exist. More information on Open OceanMap can be found here: http://www.ecotrust.org/ocean/OpenOceanMap.html Props to Aaron Racicot, now with Z-Pulley, the original developer of Open OceanMap. It’s worth mentioning that Open OceanMap, the tool that received the award, is free and open source, which is a requirement for the Mellon Award. The idea of course is to make the tool available to the larger community to use and extend for their own purposes and improve the product overall.

The desktop version is based on Quantum GIS and QT/PyQt. Without the fine work of those communities, this tool wouldn’t exist.

More information on Open OceanMap can be found here:
http://www.ecotrust.org/ocean/OpenOceanMap.html

Props to Aaron Racicot, now with Z-Pulley, the original developer of Open OceanMap.

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