[QGIS Commit] r10058 - trunk/articles/2009/geoinformatics

[svn_qgis at osgeo.org]

Author: pcav
Date: 2009-01-31 03:07:43 -0500 (Sat, 31 Jan 2009)
New Revision: 10058

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   trunk/articles/2009/geoinformatics/article.tex
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Modified: trunk/articles/2009/geoinformatics/article.tex
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--- trunk/articles/2009/geoinformatics/article.tex	2009-01-31 07:46:12 UTC (rev 10057)
+++ trunk/articles/2009/geoinformatics/article.tex	2009-01-31 08:07:43 UTC (rev 10058)
@@ -25,13 +25,13 @@
 contributions are mainly on a voluntary basis, except in a few cases where 
 contributors are able to contribute to QGIS as part of their daily work. QGIS 
 is managed by the Project Steering Committee (PSC), a five member committee
-providing technical guidance, community liason, release management, and
+providing technical guidance, community liaison, release management, and
 financial/marketing activities. The work of the QGIS project process is
 spread between numerous people who each have a specific area of
 responsibility, and ad-hoc contributors.
 
 These volunteers together with a large number of users make up the
-world-wide QGIS comunity. Over time their efforts have resulted in a comprehensive,
+world-wide QGIS community. Over time their efforts have resulted in a comprehensive,
 valuable and useful code and documentation base which is free for everyone 
 to use and improve upon.
 
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
 The QGIS-user mailing, forum and Internet Relay Chat (IRC) provide a valuable interface 
 with other users and for discussions of QGIS in general. In the spirit of open 
 process and sharing knowledge, contacting developers directly instead of going through 
-these community based avenues of communication is frowned apon.
+these community based avenues of communication is frowned upon.
 
 \subsection{Graphical User Interface}
 
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@
 \subsection{Plugin Architecture}
 
 QGIS has been designed with a plugin architecture and therefore new
-customized features and functions can easily be added to the application.
+customised features and functions can easily be added to the application.
 Many of the features in QGIS are actually implemented as core or external
 plugins. 
 
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@
 repository.
 \end{itemize}
 
-Beside these two respositories a number of QGIS developers provide and maintain
+Beside these two repositories a number of QGIS developers provide and maintain
 their own repositories. These can be added to the repository list of the
 Python Plugin Installer.
 
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@
 instance and to use and extend the objects in the core of QGIS. Plugins may be
 written in C++ or in Python. The QGIS documentation contains simple examples
 for both programming languages making it straightforward to start with plugin 
-programming. The development of python plugins is especially fast and convenient. Simple plugins require only a few hours of development. As a result, an increasing number of users are contributing new plugins, of either specialized or general use.
+programming. The development of python plugins is especially fast and convenient. Simple plugins require only a few hours of development. As a result, an increasing number of users are contributing new plugins, of either specialised or general use.
 
 \subsubsection{Custom applications that use the QGIS libaries}
 It is also possible to write new applications that provide their own user
@@ -208,6 +208,9 @@
 laptops. The QGIS libraries offer the potential to be used as a GIS backend for 
 applications targeted to mobile devices.
 
+\subsection{Who uses QGIS}
+QGIS is now widely used by professionals, government and local agencies, universities and students, and amateurs alike, for a large variety of tasks, from simply viewing raster and vector data (especially useful is the capability to deal with PostGIS layers) to running complex and custom analyses through GRASS modules. Often is used to replace or integrate proprietary software, and several migrations have been accomplished or are underway, both in small and in large companies and public administrations. Among the hundreds of people that have attended courses on QGIS use, a common feeling is that the switch from proprietary software is painless, because many tasks and menus are very similar, and the interface is generally judged intuitive.
+
 \subsection{Perspective / Conclusion}
 
 \minisec{Authors}
@@ -230,10 +233,6 @@
 \\QGIS User Mailing List: \url{http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user}
 \\QGIS IRC: Channel \#qgis port 6667 at \url{irc.freenode.net}
 \\Open Source Geospatial Foundation: \url{http://www.osgeo.org}
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