[Journal] Fwd: Re: OSGeo-Journal: proof reading

[Sunburned Surveyor]

My article was submitted for the "topical" section. I had imagined that this
section would contain articles written on general GIS topics, not on
specific open source software. I did make a special effort in the article to
avoid metnion of any specific software, operating system, or programming
language. I have personally found article's written in this way are of
benefit to the broadest audience. I think too often GIS concepts are buried
in "software-specific" details, whether that software be proprietary or open
source.

If it matters, I was hoping to show how topology could be applied with the
Java Topology Suite in a future article or articles. JTS is released under
the GPL, I believe.

But Micha may be correct, perhaps the journal is not an appropriate place
for articles that don't deal with FOSS specifically.

I think we need to decide if we'd like to provide a place to discuss broader
GIS topics and concepts without the taint from ESRI that comes with most
information published in this arena. I think it would be refreshing to have
a mainstream (not a scientific journal) publication that offers instruction
on GIS basics without the "this is how you do it in ArcGIS" stuff.

Landon


On 4/16/07, Micha Silver <micha at arava.co.il> wrote:
>
> Martin Wegmann wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I asked Paolo Cavallini do do some proof-reading and he realized that in
> > Case-Studies about Mapguide, MS SQL server etc. the application is
> partly
> > proprietary and we ought discuss how far we support the presentation of
> > proprietary software in an OSGeo Journal.
> >
> > any opinions?
> >
> > Martin
> >
> >
> I noticed that when I first reviewed the article. The project uses
> Mapguide Opensource integrated with other proprietary software. Mapguide
> itself is FOSS - the way it was implemented in the San Francisco example
> is an integrated approach. The article clearly states that that was
> their original design.
> Furthermore Autodesk is a (founding?) member of OSGeo.
>
> I'd like to point out a similar problem with a different article: Landon
> Blake did a write up on spatial relations. No where in his article is
> FOSS (or any softwre for that matter) mentioned. It's a theoretical
> presentation, and the FOSS aspect is totally ignored. I have more
> misgivings about that article than the Mapguide one.
>
> Regards,
> Micha
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