An enterprising journey with opensource GIS
summary
New Zealand Carbon Farming replaces static shapefile folders with a PostGIS database, Lizmap web maps and QGIS-driven reports, pushing edits from QField Cloud for near‑real‑time updates. The system covers QGIS + PostGIS + Lizmap + QField, manages about 110,000 ha and 25M+ tCO2 of estate, and uses machine learning tree counts to target variable density thinning. A report generator produces 90–100 fire plans in minutes (saving ~100 hours), QField photo sync and background tracking need work, but overall the pipeline is implemented and delivering time savings.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction to journey
- 4:02Enterprise GIS needs
- 7:41Open source GIS stack
- 12:18Solving real problems
- 18:01Summary and benefits
- 20:12Q&A session
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