[Geomoose-users] documentation ideas

[Dan Little]

Maybe a little bit.  The feature report hasn't been on my radar.  I
will say that the new service.php code in 2.9 will give those looking
to do customizations a lot more power.

On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 9:53 PM, Brent Fraser <bfraser at geoanalytic.com> wrote:
> Thanks Dan!  One thing I've got on my list I don't know what to do with is
> "Feature Reports".  You may recall I was trying to help someone a few months
> ago and dug into the code.  I found it was fairly specific to the demo
> dataset; not the usual easy to configure stuff.   Maybe this will be cleaned
> up with the new query system?
>
> Best Regards,
> Brent Fraser
>
>
> On 12/21/2015 9:04 AM, Dan Little wrote:
>>
>> Any and all help on the documentation side is appreciated. I've been
>> happy to be writing code and getting new features going but am
>> loatheful to do too much documentation work.  Frankly, I'm not great
>> at it (if it's more than "copy and paste this and it will work").
>>
>> Brent, whatever I can do to support your efforts will be met with as
>> much immediacy and glee as I can offer!
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)
>> <bob.basques at ci.stpaul.mn.us> wrote:
>>>
>>> Brent,
>>>
>>> We could still link to these sorts of things remotely as sub-components
>>> from the main graphic.
>>>
>>> Let me think on it some.
>>>
>>> bobb
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Dec 18, 2015, at 11:59 AM, Brent Fraser <bfraser at geoanalytic.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> bobb,
>>>>
>>>>    Good idea.  I did a diagram for mapserver 15 years ago that seemed to
>>>> help understand the flow of browser - web server - cgi app - data.  I see
>>>> they've got a much better one now
>>>> http://mapserver.org/introduction.html#anatomy-of-a-mapserver-application
>>>>
>>>> The trick is to keep is simple but useful.
>>>>
>>>> Best Regards,
>>>> Brent Fraser
>>>>
>>>> On 12/18/2015 10:30 AM, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Brent,
>>>>>
>>>>> For item number 3, I’ve often thought about some sort of flowchart
>>>>> looking thing, that would show data flow through components used by
>>>>> GeoMOOSE, etc.  There are many capabilities of GeoMOOSE that are hard to
>>>>> convey quickly that a diagram might help with, both for the new user as well
>>>>> as potential users in a sales capacity.
>>>>>
>>>>> I could put a graphic together for something like this.  It also seems
>>>>> like something that would be easy to keep up to date, as well as something
>>>>> that could be made to expose even more details at some point in the future.
>>>>>
>>>>> bobb
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Dec 18, 2015, at 11:07 AM, Brent Fraser <bfraser at geoanalytic.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   I'm considering doing a little re-organization of the Geomoose doc
>>>>>> and I'm looking for opinions.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> After several years of answering questions on the Geomoose email list,
>>>>>> I've seen a pattern.  Most of the first-time users with questions:
>>>>>>     - use (or at least start with) Windows and MS4W
>>>>>>     - want to use their data (and start with shapefiles) after
>>>>>> confirming the demo works
>>>>>>     - have trouble understanding the architecture and syntax of
>>>>>> Geomoose components
>>>>>>
>>>>>> While the current set of docs is a great start, I think we can improve
>>>>>> by filling in a few holes and re-ordering some of the sections.  Basically
>>>>>> I'd like to give those first-time users a document to follow along as they
>>>>>> integrate their data.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>     And of course we still need doc for the power implementers and
>>>>>> developers.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If anyone has some suggestions please let me know.  Thanks!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Best Regards,
>>>>>> Brent Fraser
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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