On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 10:57 PM, Jaakko Helleranta.com
jaa...@helleranta.com wrote:
I don't have a good enough internet access at hand here but a few thoughts:
* excellent!
* if/since u go the open source way for the book (which LearnOSM.org is
too, eih?):
It is open source right now.
That would be great. I also saw that someone cloned it to do a French
translation.
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 5:14 AM, Tomi Toivio t...@flossmanuals.net wrote:
We have been thinking about translating it to Finnish on the Finnish FLOSS
Manuals. That OK with you? :)
2011/10/23 Ian Dees
besfort was working on a book as well in albanian,
http://besiguri.wordpress.com/libri-book-openstreetmap-krijoni-harten-tuaj/
mike
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote:
That would be great. I also saw that someone cloned it to do a French
translation.
On Sun,
The book will never be finished. :-)
As I mentioned earlier we are happy to see further changes or suggestions
for more topics. It's very easy to publish another version for printing.
On Oct 23, 2011 1:05 PM, Besfort Guri besig...@gmail.com wrote:
The Book is finished ? or need more for the end
Jochen,
In regard to the other books already available:
- Had we known we were going to write a book, I might have thought twice
about creating a third one.
- Once we did know we were writing a book, we decided that having an open
source, low-cost alternative to the existing $40+ books was a
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Ian ian.d...@gmail.com wrote:
The existing
books don't serve the beginner's guide purpose.
I disagree. The RTC book goes well beyond my first mapping survey,
but also includes that. The Bennett book is almost entirely my first
mapping survey plus many
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Ian ian.d...@gmail.com wrote:
Jochen,
In regard to the other books already available:
- Had we known we were going to write a book, I might have thought twice
about creating a third one.
How did you get surprised by the goal of the event? Who changed the
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote:
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Ian ian.d...@gmail.com wrote:
Jochen,
In regard to the other books already available:
- Had we known we were going to write a book, I might have thought twice
about creating a third
It is not the price that matters, but the freedom to derive translations.
what good is a book that we cannot translate. Why would you ever
translate your book to some obscure language, and then who would print
it?
thanks,
mike
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Jochen Topf joc...@remote.org wrote:
What I like so far about this book over the other ones - that I have
not read, but I have seen their ToC - is the scope which is decidedly
more limited. That makes it a better guidebook for the aspiring mapper
than the other two that are undoubtedly more comprehensive, but for
that reason also
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