JTS Topology Suite

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Landon Blake
<sunburned.surveyor@...:

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Landon Blake <sunburned.surveyor@...>
> Date: Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 2:11 PM
> Subject: JTS Book Table of Contents
> To: JTS Topology Suite Development <jts-devel@...>
>
>
> I put together a preliminary table of contents for JTS, based on the
> organization of the code into packages. Please take a look and let me
> know what you think.
>
> If there is interest in tackling this project, I can start us a
> project on Wikibooks. I'm willing to contribute Chapter 1 and maybe
> also Chapter 2. I'd also be willing to produce a PDF of the
> contributed material using Scribus.
>
> I think the license for Wikibooks is GNU FDL. If we want to use the
> Creative Commons License we could host in the SurveyOS or JTS SVN
> repo.
>
>
I just blundered across this while looking for something else on the
mailing list.  I think an open source JTS book is a great idea.  However, I
see that this was posed in 2011; what's the status, if any, of this book?
 Certainly if we make this a collaborative effort, then it increases the
likelihood of getting done!  I don't mind making some small contribution,
myself.

Cheers!

Mark

Hi Mark,

so no response from Landon.. mhm... I can forward him directly (or you).
As fas I know he wrote a bit on geometry basics for the OSGeo journal or 
so while ago ... but not sure if there happend much more and how related 
that is.

 From my part, I also started end of last year with making an outline, 
which is vastly different to Landons - since I thought to cater for a 
student audience.
Unfortunately, like with most projects of that sort, I have made it to 
an introduction and the section "What is GIS" - for people with a 
computer science background. Thought, the next sub-section on the JTS 
history should be easy as Martin wrote it already. Then, I got stuck 
because I moved to a different country, etc.

My original idea was also to offer the chapters for free except for 2-3 
key chapters, to make people buying it (maybe the funds could then be 
used for JTS (2.0) development by Martin... but who really makes that 
much money from books...). However - if I look at my time in the near 
future (new job???), I can't really see that I will make progress on it 
(...except some comes and gives me 40k$ for a year to write it ;)

But if others are willing to contribute. I can post my outline and my 
learning objectives (details for OpenJUMP based hands-on exercises are 
still missing).

cheers from Santiago de Chile,
stefan

Am 25.11.12 21:33, schrieb Mark Coletti:
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Landon Blake
> <sunburned.surveyor@... <mailto:sunburned.surveyor@...>> wrote:
>
>     ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>     From: Landon Blake <sunburned.surveyor@...
>     <mailto:sunburned.surveyor@...>>
>     Date: Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 2:11 PM
>     Subject: JTS Book Table of Contents
>     To: JTS Topology Suite Development <jts-devel@...
>     <mailto:jts-devel@...>>
>
>
>     I put together a preliminary table of contents for JTS, based on the
>     organization of the code into packages. Please take a look and let me
>     know what you think.
>
>     If there is interest in tackling this project, I can start us a
>     project on Wikibooks. I'm willing to contribute Chapter 1 and maybe
>     also Chapter 2. I'd also be willing to produce a PDF of the
>     contributed material using Scribus.
>
>     I think the license for Wikibooks is GNU FDL. If we want to use the
>     Creative Commons License we could host in the SurveyOS or JTS SVN
>     repo.
>
>
> I just blundered across this while looking for something else on the
> mailing list.  I think an open source JTS book is a great idea.
>   However, I see that this was posed in 2011; what's the status, if any,
> of this book?  Certainly if we make this a collaborative effort, then it
> increases the likelihood of getting done!  I don't mind making some
> small contribution, myself.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Mark
>
>
>
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