[Geomoose-users] documentation ideas

[Dan Little]

Any and all help on the documentation side is appreciated. I've been
happy to be writing code and getting new features going but am
loatheful to do too much documentation work.  Frankly, I'm not great
at it (if it's more than "copy and paste this and it will work").

Brent, whatever I can do to support your efforts will be met with as
much immediacy and glee as I can offer!


On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)
<bob.basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us> wrote:
> Brent,
>
> We could still link to these sorts of things remotely as sub-components from the main graphic.
>
> Let me think on it some.
>
> bobb
>
>
>
>> On Dec 18, 2015, at 11:59 AM, Brent Fraser <bfraser at geoanalytic.com> wrote:
>>
>> bobb,
>>
>>   Good idea.  I did a diagram for mapserver 15 years ago that seemed to help understand the flow of browser - web server - cgi app - data.  I see they've got a much better one now http://mapserver.org/introduction.html#anatomy-of-a-mapserver-application
>>
>> The trick is to keep is simple but useful.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Brent Fraser
>>
>> On 12/18/2015 10:30 AM, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) wrote:
>>> Brent,
>>>
>>> For item number 3, I’ve often thought about some sort of flowchart looking thing, that would show data flow through components used by GeoMOOSE, etc.  There are many capabilities of GeoMOOSE that are hard to convey quickly that a diagram might help with, both for the new user as well as potential users in a sales capacity.
>>>
>>> I could put a graphic together for something like this.  It also seems like something that would be easy to keep up to date, as well as something that could be made to expose even more details at some point in the future.
>>>
>>> bobb
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Dec 18, 2015, at 11:07 AM, Brent Fraser <bfraser at geoanalytic.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>>  I'm considering doing a little re-organization of the Geomoose doc and I'm looking for opinions.
>>>>
>>>> After several years of answering questions on the Geomoose email list, I've seen a pattern.  Most of the first-time users with questions:
>>>>    - use (or at least start with) Windows and MS4W
>>>>    - want to use their data (and start with shapefiles) after confirming the demo works
>>>>    - have trouble understanding the architecture and syntax of Geomoose components
>>>>
>>>> While the current set of docs is a great start, I think we can improve by filling in a few holes and re-ordering some of the sections.  Basically I'd like to give those first-time users a document to follow along as they integrate their data.
>>>>
>>>>    And of course we still need doc for the power implementers and developers.
>>>>
>>>> If anyone has some suggestions please let me know.  Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Best Regards,
>>>> Brent Fraser
>>>>
>>>>
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