Simon, I'm also watching your progress with interest, and hope that we
can align your work and the OSGeo-Live material.
On the point of datasets, I'm open to incorporating a fine grained
dataset on OSGeo-Live, if it is going to be valuable to a number of
projects, and is suitably compact to fit on the OSGeo-Live DVD.
On 28/04/11 12:02, Simon Cropper wrote:
On 28/04/11 11:28, Jody Garnett wrote:
You should find that the committees mentioned are aware of these
issues. In
particular the osgeo live project is standardising on the use of the
natural
earth dataset in order to be above board.
This is good but very few people actually do work at that scale. I
hope that now we have some data at a finer resolution we will see some
other tutorials demonstrating techniques typically done on a day to
day basis.
If it helps; for the next release of uDig I was going to switch to the
natural earth dataset in order to better fit with OSGeo live; and be
> more generally interesting for a world wide audience.
This sounds good but as stated most users work at a regional level not
continent wide level.
From my standpoint it is annoying having any number of projects
asking for
content to be written; and no procedures in place to easily accept the
content that is available.
The first project that sits down and defines how submit word, pdf, html,
rst, odf etc... (with manual steps if needed) will have a much greater
chance of success. Perhaps that project will be yours?
I agree. I have resisted finalising my tutorial on 'preparing
tutorials' so I can iron out any nuances before asking others to
follow the same procedure. I think that after a couple of more
tutorials I should be happy with the process and will publish my notes.
I have also developed a few simple python routines that make those
finicky things deeded to make a webpage functional, easy to do. These
will be published and explained on the scripting subdomain.
So far I have...
1. A reasonable HTML template (no need for contributor to change)
2. A reasonable style setup (no need for contributor to change)
3. Sound metadata model
4. Appropriate and diverse dataset to demonstrate techniques
5. Easy screen capturing procedure
6. A range of simple to use scripts to automate those few irritating
tasks (gather images data and insert tags into HTML document,
create/maintain navigation lists, synchronise metadata throughout
website, create PDFs).
Most of these are reasonably stable now, so as stated above, after a
few more published tutorials I will be releasing these for others to use.
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