<div>You may be correct Micha.</div>
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<div>I can always move the content of my article on spatial relationships to the Free GIS Book, so it will not be wasted. Perhaps I will consider writing an artcile that deals more specifically with open source software for a future issue of the journal.
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<div>In the meantime, I think it would be good to clarify the rules for content for future authors. It would have been good to know this constraint before I wrote the article on spatial relationships, althought it may be obvious to authors that aren't as dense as myself. :]
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<div>Landon</div>
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<div>P.S. - I will have no hard feelings if the article on spatial relationships is removed. I think it is important for the OSGeo Journal to have a consistent and focused message, and I wouldn't want my conrtibution to be out of place.
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<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">Hi Landon<br><br><br>Sunburned Surveyor wrote:<br><br>> My article was submitted for the "topical" section. I had imagined
<br>> that this section would contain articles written on general GIS<br>> topics, not on specific open source software. I did make a special<br>> effort in the article to avoid metnion of any specific software,<br>
> operating system, or programming language. I have personally found<br>> article's written in this way are of benefit to the broadest audience.<br>> I think too often GIS concepts are buried in "software-specific"
<br>> details, whether that software be proprietary or open source.<br>> If it matters, I was hoping to show how topology could be applied with<br>> the Java Topology Suite in a future article or articles. JTS is
<br>> released under the GPL, I believe.<br>> But Micha may be correct, perhaps the journal is not an appropriate<br>> place for articles that don't deal with FOSS specifically.<br>I'd like to assume that readers of the OSGeo Journal are indeed looking
<br>for the FOSS viewpoint. There's plenty of general GIS stuff out there.<br>But that shouldn't preclude an article on important basic GIS concepts,<br>as long as you bridge the gap and at least mention a FOSS HowTO, or
<br>something along those lines.<br>Just my 0.02€...<br>> I think we need to decide if we'd like to provide a place to discuss<br>> broader GIS topics and concepts without the taint from ESRI that comes<br>> with most information published in this arena. I think it would be
<br>> refreshing to have a mainstream (not a scientific journal) publication<br>> that offers instruction on GIS basics without the "this is how you do<br>> it in ArcGIS" stuff.<br>> Landon<br>><br>
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