[postgis-users] Book recommendations, geospatial gangsta posturing, and more

[dnrg]

Thanks for the recommendations.

I've ordered Producing Open Source Software by Karl
Fogel for practical matters and Wikinomics and The
Success of Open Source (Steven Webber) for some
background. The latter evidently has an entire chapter
on FOSS developer motivations. The ESR (one letter
short of...) stuff I'll browse first to see if it
suits me.

For proprietary contrast, deeper roots, and even more
fun, I'm getting "Charting The Unknown: How Computer
Mapping At Harvard Became GIS" by Nick Chrisman. Been
meaning to read it and now seems as good a time as
ever.

I could use a good book on spatial statistics. Took a
course once in spatial stats, but never cared for the
text. And I'm wanting to get back into stats. A gentle
reintroduction to spatial stats is what I'm after.

Hi Tim. You wrote:
> I would second that the discussion held here
> represents extreme points of view perhaps to make
for 
> a more lucid debate. In reality we as developers do
> greatly care about our users, get upset when people
> criticise our work, and generally have human
> reactions to these things. In most case the only
> reward and pleasure we get from our hard work is
> seeing our work 'out in the wild', being used and
> enjoyed by people.

I expected as much. The geospatial gangsta posturing
of, essentially, "You don't matter and we don't care"
didn't ring true. Just kidding about the gangsta part
of course.

Sorry for being hyper-critical of QGIS and thanks for
the help. I will re-generate the spatial index and
re-try.

QGIS has great potential for being part of GLAMP. :-)
(Quantum GIS +) Grass + Linux + Apache + MapServer +
PostgreSQL/PostGIS.

That's the combination of FOSS / FOSS GIS that
initially strikes me as a good, de facto FOSS GIS
suite, in the spirit of something like LAMP. The GRASS
integration in QGIS is a real plus. Who else has it?
I'm looking forward to playing with that. 

Thanks again for all the help and sorry for cluttering
the list with bad jokes--and worse.

Spatially,

Dana




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