Doing some cross-pollination of ideas between gdal list (techies) and
osgeo season of docs list (writers)...
Feedback Lynden received from GDAL community based on his offer to help
with docs ...
On 16/6/19 2:02 pm, Lynden Noye wrote:
While Cameron is not wrong about me being a dev, that's been a more
recent thing for me professionally, I'm a much more experienced UX &
UI designer ;)
Cameron, I've subscribed to this list too, I look forward to hearing
back on where I might be able to help out!
On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 10:00 PM Cameron Shorter
<cameron.shor...@gmail.com <mailto:cameron.shor...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi GDAL folks,
I'd like to introduce you to Lynden who has dropped by our OSGeo
Season of Docs community. He is a developer, has used ogr2ogr, is
an "expert gdal newbie", and is keen to give back to GDAL through
documentation.
Do you have thoughts on where there are documentation needs, and
where Lynden could be most impactful?
Cheers, Cameron
On 17/6/19 10:43 pm, Even Rouault wrote:
Hi,
this is really great news ! Given my experience with the project, I'm rather
far from being representative of someone less familiar with it or with a non-
developer profile, so thoughts from the broader GDAL community on what they
feel is the most missing would be welcome.
One thing I've in mind - this is rather a detail - is that we lost a bit of
content (build requirements for each driver) during the Sphinx migration, as
pointed out by
https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues/1204#issuecomment-498624481 , so this
could be a potential task.
More generally, I feel we might need more tutorial-like / how-to style
documentation. The current documentation is hopefully rather decent as a
reference guide, but lacking on the quick-start side. On the wiki, there are
some source of information, mostly from
https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/UserDocs , that could be interesting to
migrate partly on the main documentation, but with a critical eye (some of the
hints might be outdated due to later improvements, etc)
Lynden, perhaps you've also suggestions from your practice of the project and
its documentation on what you'd like to see added ?
Even
On 18/6/19 1:16 am, Eli Adam wrote:
There are some things that are very basic that might make the
documentation more understandable to a beginner. I'm not sure if
these things are true or I've made them up or they are supposed to be
too obvious to state.
-nln = New Layer Name
-nlt = New Layer Type
-a_srs = assign spatial reference system
-t_srs = target spatial reference system
-s_srs = source spatial reference system
-ot = output type
-of = output format
Are those true? If not, I've used them to better understand (and
remember) the options.
On 18/6/19 3:15 am, Ivan Lucena wrote:
Talking about basics... Most of the SDK we download to build drivers
comes with an INSTALL file (.md or not) and that is what people
usually look for when they decide that they need to download and build
a FOSS. But GDAL doesn't have that. Yes, the information is there,
somewhere but it would be nice to have it more accessible for newbies.
On 18/6/19 6:11 pm, Jeremy Palmer wrote:
I think we could do with documenting the
https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/ConfigOptions in a more complete way
and including it in the main website documentation. We could also
consider including all config options that apply to a driver such as
https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/gtiff.html#configuration-options
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Cameron Shorter
Technology Demystifier
Open Technologies and Geospatial Consultant
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