[Freegis-list] FS GIS book?

[Brian Wilson]

FreeGIS'ers,

A few months ago I put up a Wiki on http://www.seafloor.org/
as a repository for stuff related to my interest in GIS/GPS
especially as related to marine sciences.

I would be honored to have you all use it.

It's running the same software as the wikipedia which seems to
be about the best out there right now.

I've been using it as a personal spot but I'd love to have
it become a focus for more.

I even started a Grass book outline even though I have almost zero
Grass experience so far.

Feel free to connect and edit pages, even if you just want a sandbox
to try out mediawiki ideas.

--Brian

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Frank Warmerdam wrote:

> Ian Turton wrote:
> > OK what's the best way to move this forward, should we just hijack the
> > GIS section of wikipedia
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_information_system? or do we
> > want to run a separate site?
> >
> > I'd been thinking about publishing the book as an Open Source book (like
> > the svn book: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/) what do people think?
>
> Ian,
>
> I don't think it should be developed within the Wikipedia wiki.  Wikipedia
> has alot of rules and conventions that would be inappropriate for an indepth
> FS GIS technical book.  I would suggest either setting up a new wiki instance
> somewhere or working within a less structured existing wiki that wouldn't mind
> the extra material.   Setting up a wiki isn't really too hard.
>
> I thinking working towards a form like the svnbook would be great, though in
> the meantime an evolving wiki can be a good community resource before things
> are cleaned up into a more publishable format.
>
> Best regards,
>

-- 
Brian Wilson
Corvallis, Oregon
541-368-4120