GNU Gama

GNU Gama package is dedicated to the adjustment of surveying networks. It is intended for use with traditional geodetic surveyings which are still used and needed in special measurements, e.g. underground or high precision engineering measurements (engineering geodesy), where the Global Positioning System (GPS) cannot be used.

Adjustment in the local Cartesian coordinate systems is fully supported by the command-line program gama-local that adjusts surveying (free) networks of observed distances, directions, angles, height differences, 3D vectors and observed coordinates (coordinates with given variance-covariance matrix). You can use any orientation of XY axes and observed directions.

Adjustment in global coordinate systems is supported by gama-g3 program for observed 3D vectors, distances and coordinates.

Requirements

For parsing XML documents Gama uses XML parser expat, originally written by James Clark. If for any reason expat library is not installed on your system, Gama still can be compiled and built with old version 1.1 of expat, that is distributed with Gama (make dep-expat-1.1; make). XML parser expat is not part of GNU Gama, but is used with GNU Gama.

GNU Gama requires adjustment input data in XML format, see documentation for details.

Download

GNU Gama can be found in the subdirectory /gnu/gama/ on any of GNU FTP server mirrors https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gama.

All archive files on GNU FTP server mirrors are gpg signed. Read https://ftp.gnu.org/ how to verify the signature files.

Git

To get anonymous read-only access to the GIT repository for the latest GNU Gama source, issue the following command

git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/gama.git

If you are interested in a Qt based GUI qgama, build the application by following the steps given below.

git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/gama/qt.git
cd  qt
git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/gama.git

mkdir build
cd build

export CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=~/Qt/6.0.1/gcc_64/  # export path to Qt
cmake .. -G Ninja
cmake --build .

The collection of sample networks is available separately. To checkout the gama-local examples from GIT use the command

git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/gama/examples.git

Documentation

A manual is available online in several formats.

Related projects

Binary builds for Windows

• Native builds of the command-line interface (CLI) gama-local.exe for Windows 10 are distributed from https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnu-gama-local.

• Binary builds of Qt based GUI qgama for Windows 10 (including command line tools gama-local and gama-g3) are available from https://sourceforge.net/projects/qgama.

  

• GNU Gama builds for Linux, OSX and Windows are also available from https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/gama. Maintained by Kristian Evers.

Free surveying calculation and adjustment projects

• GeoEasy surveying calculation, network adjustment, digital terrain models, regression calculation. See also the article by Zoltan Siki GeoEasy an open source project for surveying calculations, DOI: https://doi.org/10.14311/gi.17.2.1

Contact us

GNU Gama has two moderated mailing lists:

• <info-gama@gnu.org> for announcements and discussion about GNU Gama;
• <bug-gama@gnu.org> to which you should send a mail whenever you find bugs, and have suggestions, ideas or questions related to GNU Gama. Whenever you report a bug, please include enough information so that we can understand what happened and even reproduce your problem in our machines. Excessive information is always better than no information.

If you prefer, you can always directly contact Petra Millarová or Aleš Čepek.