[OSGeo-Edu] Free GIS Book - next step ideas

[Charlie Schweik]

Hi all,
Only have a second... 

- Great list of RS links Venka; thanks Ned...

- Helena: Great idea on organizing the inventory page by "current" and
archival tutorials". I'll try and do this but it might make sense for
you to do it (if you have the time) and move your GRASS stuff
accordingly.

- Victor, you said:
> As I said when Venka told us about his student who could translate from
> spanish to english, none ot the materials already written have been checked
> and reviewed, so somehow it is a waste of time to translate them. 
So it sounds like a new metadata field on your TOC wiki page: 
"status" - "being written", "waiting for translation to
english/spanish", being translated, etc.

As you suggest on this page we could also have a list of possible
translators. I think the book needs to be (obviously) an edited volume
in two languages, and translators need to get some credit. This would be
a good incentive for PhD students perhaps to get their name associated
with an edited volume that they could enter on their CV. I think we
should look at LuLu as a possible publishing option when that time
comes.

All the below is great stuff for the call for papers for the book or the
journal. It already raised in my mind a set of people I know who might
be willing to contribute chapters on GIS use in various fields who are
not on this email list. Let's get the calls written and we can send them
out via various listservs. Great stuff Victor.

Cheers

Charlie

> However,
> we can start talking to people (and trying hard to convince them to join
> us), so as to create a "squad" of translators, ready to start working once
> we finish (totally or partially) the book. By the end of the week I will
> have a more updated version of the pdf on the svn...the one that is there is
> a bit old. (but I am glad that you like it...;-) )
> 
> If you can get in contact with the guys at the EoE, go ahead. You probably
> know more about that project than anyone of us...For sure they will have
> plenty of information that we could use.
> 
> And finally, about the call for papers: The current structure of the spanish
> book has 5 parts: Introduction, Data, Technology, Operations, Cartographic
> Design, Organizational Factor (this translation might be a bit unaccurate,
> but I hope you get the idea...it is about implementing GIS, and the social
> and human implications of GIS...more or less) and Practical Applications.
> This last
> part should feature some practical applications of GIS in different fields,
> and I think it is perfect for the journal.
> I proposed the following chapters for this part:
> 
> GIS applied to Environmental Management (suitability models, landscape
> management...)
> GIS applied to Risk Analysis(flood analysis, fire spread modelling, water
> polution...)
> GIS applied to Ecology (predictive models, population modelling...)
> GIS applied to Climate Analysis
> GIS applied to Social Sciences(crime analysis, deomographic analysis,
> politics...)
> 
> We can publish something like "GIS applied to social sciences", for
> instance, and one such article in each journal number. Even, if we want it
> to be more suitable for the OSGeo Journal, we could write something like
> "Open Source GIS applied to social sciences"...and add some case studies and
> everything related to the use of GIS in that particular field. We can later
> remove the software stuff in the article to fit it into the theoretical
> philosophy of the book.
> 
> What do you think of this? Tyler, what's your opinion on this?
> 
> I have just asked the people in the spanish list to tell me their opinion on
> all that is going on here...so I guess I still have to wait a bit before I
> can start moving. However, I will try to have at least that ToC in english
> in the OSGeo wiki, so we can start discussing it.
> 
> Regards
> 
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