Fascinating discussion - and quite encouraging to someone like me who is just
moving into GIS and hoping to make good use of OS GIS tools in future.
As a newbie to all of this technology, I'd go along with the general feeling
that ESRI ArcMap is easier to get started with as an end user, and
Landon Blake wrote:
The lack of good user documentation is a weakness of many open source
projects. The problem is that most of us like to code, but few of us
like to write!
Speak for yourself! ;-) Am I the exception to the rule? *LOL*
Please don't regard the following as shameless promo. I
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Your open source career
Landon Blake wrote:
The lack of good user documentation is a weakness of many open source
projects. The problem is that most of us like to code, but few of us
like to write!
Speak for yourself! ;-) Am I the exception to the rule? *LOL
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Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Your open source career
Hi,
Don't forget that some people are not developers but are ready to write
documentation (in my native langage for me ;) ).
Open Source is not only for developers, but for everyone who want to share his
works
Landon Blake wrote:
The lack of good user documentation is a weakness of many open source
projects. The problem is that most of us like to code, but few of us
like to write! It is something that needs to be addressed, although I am
unsure of the solution. Maybe we need to invent an IDE for user
: Monday, May 05, 2008 8:28 AM
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Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Your open source career
Landon Blake wrote:
Bruno,
You are the exception!
I am familiar with your book, as I bought a copy about 4 months back.
iText is a great open source library! Please accept my
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The biggest problem with OS - nobody seems to have mentioned it yet - is the
lack of user-friendly or coherent documentation, even for mature tools like
GRASS (yes, I know there's a GRASS book, but getting hold of it
Thanks, Markus.
By the way, for anybody else looking of a fairly painless intro to FOSS GIS,
I can heartily recommend Scott Davis's book GIS for web developers. It's
aimed mainly at web mapping rather than heavy duty GIS, but it will get you
started with PostGIS, GeoServer, GDAL, uDig, QGIS and
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Hi everyone,
We've probably all heard of the typical business models for open
source companies, but I'm working on a few slides
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Tyler,
You know I can't pass up an opportunity to talk about myself. :] I
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