[Journal] Fwd: Re: OSGeo-Journal: proof reading

[Sunburned Surveyor]

You may be correct Micha.

I can always move the content of my article on spatial relationships to the
Free GIS Book, so it will not be wasted. Perhaps I will consider writing an
artcile that deals more specifically with open source software for a future
issue of the journal.

In the meantime, I think it would be good to clarify the rules for content
for future authors. It would have been good to know this constraint before I
wrote the article on spatial relationships, althought it may be obvious to
authors that aren't as dense as myself. :]

Landon

P.S. - I will have no hard feelings if the article on spatial
relationships is removed. I think it is important for the OSGeo Journal to
have a consistent and focused message, and I wouldn't want my conrtibution
to be out of place.


On 4/16/07, Micha Silver <micha at arava.co.il> wrote:
>
> Hi Landon
>
>
> Sunburned Surveyor wrote:
>
> > My article was submitted for the "topical" section. I had imagined
> > that this section would contain articles written on general GIS
> > topics, not on specific open source software. I did make a special
> > effort in the article to avoid metnion of any specific software,
> > operating system, or programming language. I have personally found
> > article's written in this way are of benefit to the broadest audience.
> > I think too often GIS concepts are buried in "software-specific"
> > details, whether that software be proprietary or open source.
> > If it matters, I was hoping to show how topology could be applied with
> > the Java Topology Suite in a future article or articles. JTS is
> > released under the GPL, I believe.
> > But Micha may be correct, perhaps the journal is not an appropriate
> > place for articles that don't deal with FOSS specifically.
> I'd like to assume that readers of the OSGeo Journal are indeed looking
> for the FOSS viewpoint. There's plenty of general GIS stuff out there.
> But that shouldn't preclude an article on important basic GIS concepts,
> as long as you bridge the gap and at least mention a FOSS HowTO, or
> something along those lines.
> Just my 0.02€...
> > I think we need to decide if we'd like to provide a place to discuss
> > broader GIS topics and concepts without the taint from ESRI that comes
> > with most information published in this arena. I think it would be
> > refreshing to have a mainstream (not a scientific journal) publication
> > that offers instruction on GIS basics without the "this is how you do
> > it in ArcGIS" stuff.
> > Landon
> >
>
>
>
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