<div>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.
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>But Micha may be correct, perhaps the journal is not an appropriate place for articles that don't deal with FOSS specifically.</div>
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<div>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.
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<div>Landon<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/16/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Micha Silver</b> <<a href="mailto:micha@arava.co.il">micha@arava.co.il</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Martin Wegmann wrote:<br><br>> Hello,<br>><br>> I asked Paolo Cavallini do do some proof-reading and he realized that in
<br>> Case-Studies about Mapguide, MS SQL server etc. the application is partly<br>> proprietary and we ought discuss how far we support the presentation of<br>> proprietary software in an OSGeo Journal.<br>><br>
> any opinions?<br>><br>> Martin<br>><br>><br>I noticed that when I first reviewed the article. The project uses<br>Mapguide Opensource integrated with other proprietary software. Mapguide<br>itself is FOSS - the way it was implemented in the San Francisco example
<br>is an integrated approach. The article clearly states that that was<br>their original design.<br>Furthermore Autodesk is a (founding?) member of OSGeo.<br><br>I'd like to point out a similar problem with a different article: Landon
<br>Blake did a write up on spatial relations. No where in his article is<br>FOSS (or any softwre for that matter) mentioned. It's a theoretical<br>presentation, and the FOSS aspect is totally ignored. I have more<br>
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