<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hey Mike:<div><br></div><div>I am not sure about other projects; but for uDig we have a "tasks" section; and we depend on our contributors to populate it. You will find that many of the contributors have not used ArcMap and are not in a position to write a from this perspective.</div><div><br></div><div>For uDig the tasks section is in a wiki (allowing anyone to contribute); the result[1] is exported out and processed into online help for the application.</div><div><br></div><div>Jody</div><div>[1] <a href="http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/EN/Home">http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/EN/Home</a></div><div><br><div><div>On 04/02/2011, at 3:17 AM, Mike wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">I've often thought a document like this would be quite useful. <div><a href="http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/165">http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/165</a></div><div><a href="http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/165"></a>This one says "You do this in ArcMap, here's how to do it in Manifold"</div>
<div><br></div><div>Is there a guide like this for some of the OSGeo applications?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Bob Basques <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Bob.Basques@ci.stpaul.mn.us">Bob.Basques@ci.stpaul.mn.us</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">Could an expanded version of something like this comparison work: </font><font color="#0000ff" size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"><u><a href="http://geotux.tuxfamily.org/index.php?option=com_myblog&task=view&id=257&Itemid=59&lang=en" target="_blank"><i>http://geotux.tuxfamily.org/index.php?option=com_myblog&task=view&id=257&Itemid=59&lang=en</i></a></u></font><font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS"> I really like this comparison, and the fact that there are many versions available, each with added content, makes the whole process that much more valuable over time.</font> </div>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">If so, is there marketing fund available for building an expanded version. Germain may be interested in something like this. May also have a good bead on what interested parties are looking for in a Geoproduct.</font> </div>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">This type of question/answer packet seems like a good fit for a promotional piece of OSGEO propoganda materials, and could be regularly upgraded. Germain for example already has a third (v5) english version on the side lines waiting to be converted to english. This type of product with the right additions seems like it might satisfy a large part of the question "what tool for what purpose?".</font> </div>
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I don't think a FAQ needs to point to one "single best tool". As Frank noted in his examples, the answer could be a list of tools if more than one provides the capability. Answers that include links to a description of the capability (and/or examples of usage) in the project documentation would be especially helpful. </div>
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On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:07 AM, Hamish <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hamish_b@yahoo.com" target="_blank">hamish_b@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> </div>
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> This request comes up yearly; and was<br>> one of the ideas for content for the osgeo website. The<br>> difficulty is finding resources to produce the content.<br>><br>> The trouble is just because a request is common, and makes<br>
> perfect sense from a marketing open source geospatial point<br>> of view, does not imply the foundation has the marketing<br>> muscle to get it done.<br><br> </div>
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as noted in the original thread on the live-demo ML, much of the OSGeo software is somewhat interchangeable, especially for common desktop GIS tasks. Asking the collective authors/representatives of all OSGeo projects which is the best single tool to get the job done is not likely to converge on a single answer that doesn't leave at least one or two projects feeling a bit ignored.<br>
<br>this may be frustrating & overwhelming to the new recruit, but the only honest answer I could give to it is "explore the Live DVD and find something that fits you well".<br><br><br>what's the best FOSS tool to edit a text file?<br>
debian$ apt-cache search editor | wc -l<br>603<br><br>... "it depends", take your pick :-/<br><br><br>solutions welcome,<br><font color="#888888">Hamish<br style="color:#888888"></font> </div>
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