[OSGeo-Discuss] Help authoring tools (John Lindsay)

2010-06-01 Thread John Lindsay
Hi Dan, For the Whitebox GAT project, I've been using html with ccs for formating and create the help files in Komodo Edit. It's quite a simple approach but find that I can create quite nice help entries in this way. I can embed graphics, equations, links to other help entries, etc. Using ccs a

[OSGeo-Discuss] StackOverflow like GIS website

2010-06-01 Thread George Silva
The guys at StackOverflow are promoting some new Q&A websites in the molds of StackOverflow, ServerFault, etc. http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/1425/geographic-information-systems?referrer=u45zxtCru4U%3d There is a propose for a GIS website like it, which I created - containing aspects o

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Help authoring tools

2010-06-01 Thread Paul Ramsey
PostGIS is docbook, a decision from Way Back. Docbook has served us well, and in particular has provided some unexpected benefits, in that the detailed markup have allowed documentation-driven test frameworks to be built (we can actually automatically test every documented function). That said, i

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Help authoring tools

2010-06-01 Thread Howard Butler
On Jun 1, 2010, at 12:34 PM, Stefan Steiniger wrote: >> On 06/01/2010 10:00 AM, Daniel Ames wrote: >>> Do any of you have a preferred open source help authoring tool? We're >>> looking for something to document our projects on web pages - something >>> better than wiki - and also to download and

[OSGeo-Discuss] referring FOSS4G 2010

2010-06-01 Thread Lorenzo Becchi
A little tribute to those sites and visitors that ends clicking on our website. here the list of top 120 referrals: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2010_Marketing#TOP_120_Referrals thanks lorenzo ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Help authoring tools

2010-06-01 Thread Stefan Steiniger
Hei, I would like to know some tools too that are used by others. As OpenJUMP is also lacking a help system (still...). Things that heard of are: - docbook - elml.ch (though not thought for documentation directly but it exports to several formats: pdf/html as it is xml based) - the Sextante b

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Help authoring tools

2010-06-01 Thread Dan Putler
Hi Dan, PAGC has its documentation written in text files with markdown markup, which is then converted into various formats (html and PDF via LaTeX in particular) using pandoc: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ I know gdal uses restructured text in a similar way. Dan On 06/01/2010 10:00 AM,

[OSGeo-Discuss] Help authoring tools

2010-06-01 Thread Daniel Ames
Do any of you have a preferred open source help authoring tool? We're looking for something to document our projects on web pages - something better than wiki - and also to download and install with software. Must be cross platform, etc. I'd like to use whatever others are using in the OSGeo commun

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] GPS Versus Maps

2010-06-01 Thread Bob Basques
David (and Peter?), Thanks for the pointer. I dont' know that Iagree 100% with the research conclusions, mostly on the grounds that I think a Digital map can be made to be as useful or more useful than a paper version. Forget about the GPS aspect for am minute, or put it into the background.

[OSGeo-Discuss] GPS Versus Maps

2010-06-01 Thread Sampson, David
This was an interesting resource passed around our offices I thought the OSGEO community might appreciate. Thanks Peter, === Source: Peter Paul, Natural Resources Canada A brief discussion from the CBC Radio Program 'Spark' ... Spark 115 - May 30 & June 1, 2010 http://www.cbc.ca/spark/ Sc

[OSGeo-Discuss] Request for a new project: GIS for Enterprise Linux

2010-06-01 Thread Mathieu Baudier
Hello, we would like to set up a new project within the OSGeo Foundation whose purpose would be to coordinate efforts around the packaging and usage of GIS software on Enterprise Linux (EL), that is, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and its community derivatives such as CentOS and Scientific Linux. We al