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<p>Doing some cross-pollination of ideas between gdal list (techies)
and osgeo season of docs list (writers)...<br>
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<p>Feedback Lynden received from GDAL community based on his offer
to help with docs ...</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 16/6/19 2:02 pm, Lynden Noye wrote:<br>
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<div>While Cameron is not wrong about me being a dev, that's
been a more recent thing for me professionally, I'm a much
more experienced UX & UI designer ;)</div>
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<div>Cameron, I've subscribed to this list too, I look forward
to hearing back on where I might be able to help out!</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 10:00
PM Cameron Shorter <<a
href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>>
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<p>Hi GDAL folks,</p>
<p>I'd like to introduce you to Lynden who has dropped by
our OSGeo Season of Docs community. He is a developer, has
used ogr2ogr, is an "expert gdal newbie", and is keen to
give back to GDAL through documentation.</p>
<p>Do you have thoughts on where there are documentation
needs, and where Lynden could be most impactful?</p>
<p>Cheers, Cameron</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 17/6/19 10:43 pm, Even Rouault
wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Hi,
this is really great news ! Given my experience with the project, I'm rather
far from being representative of someone less familiar with it or with a non-
developer profile, so thoughts from the broader GDAL community on what they
feel is the most missing would be welcome.
One thing I've in mind - this is rather a detail - is that we lost a bit of
content (build requirements for each driver) during the Sphinx migration, as
pointed out by
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues/1204#issuecomment-498624481">https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues/1204#issuecomment-498624481</a> , so this
could be a potential task.
More generally, I feel we might need more tutorial-like / how-to style
documentation. The current documentation is hopefully rather decent as a
reference guide, but lacking on the quick-start side. On the wiki, there are
some source of information, mostly from
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/UserDocs">https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/UserDocs</a> , that could be interesting to
migrate partly on the main documentation, but with a critical eye (some of the
hints might be outdated due to later improvements, etc)
Lynden, perhaps you've also suggestions from your practice of the project and
its documentation on what you'd like to see added ?
Even
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 18/6/19 1:16 am, Eli Adam wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">There are some things that are very basic that might make the
documentation more understandable to a beginner. I'm not sure if
these things are true or I've made them up or they are supposed to be
too obvious to state.
-nln = New Layer Name
-nlt = New Layer Type
-a_srs = assign spatial reference system
-t_srs = target spatial reference system
-s_srs = source spatial reference system
-ot = output type
-of = output format
Are those true? If not, I've used them to better understand (and
remember) the options.</pre>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 18/6/19 3:15 am, Ivan Lucena wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:BN6PR2201MB12494A82B028F0FF9685E58AF2EB0@BN6PR2201MB1249.namprd22.prod.outlook.com"><span>Talking
about basics... Most of the SDK we download to build drivers
comes with an INSTALL file (.md or not) and that is what people
usually look for when they decide that they need to download and
build a FOSS. But GDAL doesn't have that. Yes, the information
is there, somewhere but it would be nice to have it more
accessible for newbies. </span></blockquote>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 18/6/19 6:11 pm, Jeremy Palmer
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CAA5WJYm+=QQL5FV6r62XmdKjd77tR7U8Cr+xqPHB198na3gSjw@mail.gmail.com">I
think we could do with documenting the <a
href="https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/ConfigOptions">https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/ConfigOptions</a> in
a more complete way and including it in the main website
documentation. We could also consider including all config options
that apply to a driver such as <a
href="https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/gtiff.html#configuration-options">https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/gtiff.html#configuration-options</a></blockquote>
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Cameron Shorter
Technology Demystifier
Open Technologies and Geospatial Consultant
M +61 (0) 419 142 254</pre>
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