[Lexicon] GDAL Documentation Glossary

Nick Bearman nick at nickbearman.com
Mon Jul 7 03:02:59 PDT 2025


Hi Seth,

Thanks for the update - it is looking great! :-D

Best wishes,
Nick.

On 03/07/2025 08:46, Seth G via Lexicon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just to let you know, the glossary pull request was accepted into GDAL 
> [1], and can be seen in the docs at 
> https://gdal.org/en/latest/glossary.html (credits at the bottom of the 
> page). This will continue to grow over the next few months.
> Thanks all for the suggestions and links,
>
> Seth
>
> [1] https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/12306
>
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> On Sat, May 24, 2025, at 3:14 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>> Good question re license, and one I don't have a perfect answer for.
>> I can state with confidence that the intent during the development of 
>> this glossary has been to share the glossary under an open license, 
>> selecting CC-By as the most appropriate license. (I'd suggest using 
>> the latest, CC-By-4.0) 
>> https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en
>> Glossary terms have been sourced from many sources, many people, many 
>> organizations, often without a clear license definition in the 
>> source, and then improved by multiple people.
>> For legal reference, we were working within the framework of The Good 
>> Docs Project, which makes use of 0BSD and CC-By, per: 
>> https://www.thegooddocsproject.dev/terms-of-use, which you can 
>> consider as your best source of a license to refer to.
>>
>> You might we to refer to "Contributors to glossaries from various 
>> sources" or "contributors to glossary initiatives within The Good 
>> Docs Project"
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 19 May 2025 at 17:55, Seth G <sethg at geographika.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     Thanks Cameron. From the notes it looks like activity around this
>>     has moved to a Slack channel and away from the mailing list?
>>     Also is there a licence for the terms at
>>     https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Oq8Ey78t1TiLsSIH-cf0pWNnWko0CTaMhdR9qhXmJvM/
>>     ? Would it be possible to add these to a GDAL glossary, with an
>>     acknowledgement at the bottom of the page?
>>
>>     Seth
>>
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>>     On Tue, May 13, 2025, at 12:17 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>>>     Hi Seth,
>>>     Movement on the OSGeo Glossary terms has lapsed.
>>>
>>>     You can pick up the prior list of terms from this Google
>>>     Directory
>>>     <https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1v5ir_VrR71RFxR8ipf9xmpIIH8muEvEK>,
>>>     and in particular, the "Useful stuff" summarized at the top of
>>>     our old meeting notes
>>>     <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yzncnQB7uYktPnAQ4DqZYVPDdYnqDrWmqHzcpXrjkPg/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.2fmsyrn3jw6h>.
>>>     It is also worth noting that AI tools like ChatGPT are now very
>>>     effective at creating a reasonably decent Glossary from source
>>>     content.
>>>
>>>     Good luck,
>>>     I'll be interested to hear how you go.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>     On Thu, 8 May 2025 at 19:51, Seth G via Lexicon
>>>     <lexicon at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>         Hi all,
>>>
>>>         I'm looking at the feasibility of setting up a glossary for
>>>         the GDAL documentation (using Sphinx). I was wondering if
>>>         anything came out of previous discussions in regard to a
>>>         common/open list of terms and definitions relating to GIS?
>>>         It would be great if there was a common starting point that
>>>         could be used.
>>>
>>>         Seth
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>>
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