[Openev-discuss] Our company used OpenEV on a project with good results!

[Vic K. <vi...@k-...>]

To the OpenEV discussion list:

Our company, WHPA Inc., is a hydrological consulting firm based in 
Bloomington, Indiana.  We recenty completed a project in which we delineated 
467 wellhead protection areas using our groundwater flow model, ModAEM (an 
analytic element code soon to be released under the GPL, 
http://modaem.sourceforge.net).  We initially were interested in OpenEV only 
for the final presentation of results, since the client wanted them in 
shapefiles, but after investigating OpenEV we decided to use it for 
preprocessing and visualization during project execution.  Our pre- and 
post-processing was accomplished by our own Python scripts which 
used the Shapelib extensions.

The whole combination worked very well, both while building models and during 
the final (manual) delineation steps.  This was pretty remarkable, given that 
the modeler who did the bulk of the work had no prior experience with OpenEV 
and much of the manual work of drawing polygons for the final results was 
done by summer interns with little GIS or Linux experience.  OpenEV also 
simplified the job of quality-assurance checking once the manual work was 
complete.

We're very pleased with OpenEV (and of course Python) and we are now 
embarking on the development of analytical tools which are to be 
plugged-into OpenEV.  The combination of Python with OpenEV is a very 
powerful one for environmental modeling -- you can accomplish a lot with 
much flexibility and low cost.

If you want to ask me any questions about this work or about WHPA Inc., 
please send email.

All the best,

Dr. Vic Kelson
Vice President, Research and Technology
Wittman Hydro Planning Associates Inc.
Bloomington, IN
vi...@wi...
http://www.wittmanhydro.com