[Lexicon] GDAL Documentation Glossary
Nick Bearman
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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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