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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Arial Narrow"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I think we may have an opportunity to kill two birds with one stone.
There has been some discussion about setting-up a multi-language dictionary for
GIS terms maintained by the OSGeo. One the OSGeo-Education mailing list we also
talked about setting up a wiki page to track definitions of common GIS terms
and technical jargon for authors of the Free GIS Book.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Arial Narrow"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Arial Narrow"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I was wondering if we could combine these two (1) tasks. If this is
possible I could get the dictionary started with entries for definitions I
would like to propose to other Free GIS Book Authors. (We’d like to get
consistent usage of technical jargon throughout the book.)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Arial Narrow"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Arial Narrow"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>If this won’t work I’ll start a separate page for the Free GIS
Book Definitions.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Arial Narrow"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Arial Narrow"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Arial Narrow"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Landon<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Arial Narrow"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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