Geopaparazzi is a free and open source mobile application for collecting geospatial data and taking geotagged photos. It allows users to easily create notes, bookmarks, and track GPS data. Geopaparazzi supports a variety of basemaps and spatial databases. Data can be edited, imported, exported, and viewed in GIS software like gvSIG using plugins. Geopaparazzi has a variety of uses including engineering surveys, emergency management, and field data collection.

1. GEOPAPARAZZI STATE OF
THE ART
Silvia Franceschi and Andrea Antonello
FOSS4G-EU 2017 – 2017/07/21
ydroloGIS nvironmental
HydroloGIS S.r.l. - Via Siemens, 19 - 39100 Bolzano
ngineering
www.hydrologis.com
gisforchange
www.gis4change.org
gvSIG Association
www.gvsig.org

2. Who am I?
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environmental engineer specialized in hydrology,
hydraulics, geomorphology and forestry
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co-founder of HydroloGIS member of gvSIG
association
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main promoter and user of Geopaparazzi for digital
field mapping
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OSGeo Charter Member

3. Basically an engineering survey tool
but it can be used also for emergency
management, general field activities
(sport) and tourism. The aims are:
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can be always at hand when needed
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gives the possibility to take
georeferenced pictures with possibility
to import them into a main GIS
application
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is extremely easy to use and intuitive,
providing just few basic functionalities
What is Geopaparazzi?

4. Geopaparazzi base functionalities
complex notes
text sketch
picture
gps logs
Raster or vector
basemaps spatialite
vector overlays

5. Supported basemaps
Geopaparazzi supports the following
basemap sources:
- Mapsforge offline map files
- MBtiles offline databases
- Mapurl config files
* TMS offline tiles folders
* TMS online sources
* WMS online sources
- Rasterlite2 offline databases

6. Notes and bookmarks can be visualized/zoomed to/edited in a
dedicated list view.
notes list bookmarks list
Notes and bookmarks

7. TAP OPENS MENU
GPS logs
GPS tracks can be registered with the app or imported as GPX. It
is possible to manage and visualize some basic information.

8. GPS logs properties
center the map
on starting or
ending point
delete
update length
visualize trends of
height and
velocity

9. Spatialite databases
Tap the + to add
new spatialite db
Add a single
entry or a whole
folder

10. Spatialite databases

11. Spatialite databases
Support for vector data style and conversion from GIS data into the
geopaparazzi spatialite database based on SLD standard (JGrassTools).
if the shapefiles have SLD it will be
imported together with features and
attributes for each layer

12. Spatialite databases
Support for for unique values map theming (readonly) for all the features
type.

13. Spatialite editing
Editing of spatialite layers is supported with simplified tools
long tap: select
editable button
select among the list of
visible Spatialite layers
edit one layer
at a time (red) tap to enter/exit
editing mode for
the selected layer

14. Spatialite editing
continuing lines is
supported.
Moving lines vertexes
is NOT supported.
Moving points is
NOT supported.
new points: GPS
position, center of
the map or tapping
Edit options for point, lines and polygons are: add new, delete,
selection, edit geometry and edit attributes.

15. Spatialite editing
edit polygons geometry:
remove/add pieces of
polygons
draw a line starting
from the polygon
you want to keep
to the one to use
to cut
draw a line starting
from the polygon
you want to
expand to the one
to add

16. Import / Export
Geopaparazzi supports some simple import - export directly from
the device.
complex notes (form) can
be exported in a PDF

17. Geopaparazzi tools for gvSIG
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in gvSIG it is possible to:
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create the map background data as .mbtile
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export and browse the image notes
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export all the data contained in the project as shapefile
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the plugin for Geopaparazzi in gvSIG is available at:
https://we.tl/ROxgEc267P
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read carefully the installation guidelines available:
https://github.com/moovida/hydrologis4gvsig/releases/download/release_0.1.0___jgt_0.8.1/h
ydrologis4gvsig_quickstart.pdf
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once installed you can find a new item in the menu bar JGTools
containing the following tools

18. Create background maps
In the new plugin there is a nice tool to create background maps for
Geopaparazzi:
The user just sets the wanted zoomlevels and a name and output folder
for the database. In this example we wanted to have a local map as
background:

19. Once launched it takes the current view and active layers (rasters +
vectors) and generates an mbtiles database for Geopaparazzi.
Pay attention on the upper zoomlevel, it might be
hard on your PC and time consuming.
On large areas 19-20 might be a good compromise.
Create background maps

20. Background maps on the device
On the device that will then look like the following:
Versus the same region on gvSIG:

21. Convert a project to GIS data
In gvSIG do an ADD LAYER, it will present you Geopaparazzi as
option (new tab).
just select the project to
convert in shp

22. Convert a project to GIS data
All the data will be exported in different shapefiles + a folder for
media files.

23. Convert a project to GIS data
All the collected info are
stored as attributes.

24. Convert a project to GIS data
The images can be selected and browsed directly in the GIS

25. Sync data with gvSIGonline
We are working with Scolab on a connection with gvSIG Online (GOL)
* download layers list
* select layers to download: GOL
packages them as Spatialite DBs
* download the dataset
* ...local editing
* upload of modified dataset

26. EXAMPLE OF OTHER USE/APPLICATIONS

27. Osaka: disaster management
Disaster management System of Osaka with Geopaparazzi and
MapGuide Open Source

28. The New York natural heritage program
Mapping invasive species in the iMapInvasives program with
Geopaparazzi

29. INEGI (Mexico): field data collection
The Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI) of
Mexico is financing some development to support geological and
hydraulics surveys.

30. THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION!
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ydroloGIS nvironmental
HydroloGIS S.r.l. - Via Siemens, 19 - 39100 Bolzano
ngineering
www.hydrologis.com
gisforchange
www.gis4change.org
gvSIG Association
www.gvsig.org