[GRASS-user] Springer Encyclopedia of GIS, GRASS entry

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1

Hello,

I am a contributing author for the upcoming Springer Encyclopedia of GIS (Entries for SVG and Webmapping) and noticed that they have entries for some commercial GIS and spatial DB products (e.g. Oracle, Smallworld) but don't mention OS or other commercial alternatives, such as UMN Mapserver, Postgis, GRASS, ESRI, etc. I asked the editors and they agree to include additional entries into the encyclopedia if they can be written until december.

Are there any volunteers that would be willing to write an entry for GRASS?

Additional information is available at http://refworks.springer-sbm.com/geograph/

If you are interested in writing such an entry (3000-4000 words, 8-12 pages incl figures), please contact me and I'll send you the emails of the editors and responsible person at Springer. Entries can be written in Word or Latex.

Thanks for your interest,
Andreas

--
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Andreas Neumann
Institute of Cartography
ETH Zurich
Wolfgang-Paulistrasse 15
CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland

Phone: ++41-44-633 3031, Fax: ++41-44-633 1153
e-mail: neumann@karto.baug.ethz.ch
www: http://www.carto.net/neumann/
SVG.Open: http://www.svgopen.org/
Carto.net: http://www.carto.net/

2

Dear colleagues,

I think we should not take this to lightly.
It is of * great * importance to place open source GIS and
geodata infrastructures in this book, as this looks like it could
evolve into a widely circulated reference.

I believe that the chapter on "Organizational, Professional, Social, Legal Aspects of GIS" would be the suitable place for an OS GIS chapter.
In addition, there is already a chapter called "Control of Information - dissemination of GIS information" and this should be subsituted with
some background on open geodata (if that has not already been done).

However, most of the GRASS developers and users can only contribute
such things in their spare time and I would guess that I will be
hard to find someone to write up a whole chapter 'til December.
I would be willing to add a few paragraphs and some pretty figures
on archaeological GRASS applications.

Mark, Michael -- maybe we could cooperate on this?

Best,

Benjamin

Andreas Neumann wrote:

Hello,

I am a contributing author for the upcoming Springer Encyclopedia of GIS (Entries for SVG and Webmapping) and noticed that they have entries for some commercial GIS and spatial DB products (e.g. Oracle, Smallworld) but don't mention OS or other commercial alternatives, such as UMN Mapserver, Postgis, GRASS, ESRI, etc. I asked the editors and they agree to include additional entries into the encyclopedia if they can be written until december.

Are there any volunteers that would be willing to write an entry for GRASS?

Additional information is available at http://refworks.springer-sbm.com/geograph/

If you are interested in writing such an entry (3000-4000 words, 8-12 pages incl figures), please contact me and I'll send you the emails of the editors and responsible person at Springer. Entries can be written in Word or Latex.

Thanks for your interest,
Andreas

--
Benjamin Ducke, M.A.
Archäoinformatik
(Archaeoinformation Science)
Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte
(Inst. of Prehistoric and Historic Archaeology)
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
Johanna-Mestorf-Straße 2-6
D 24098 Kiel
Germany

Tel.: ++49 (0)431 880-3378 / -3379
Fax : ++49 (0)431 880-7300
www.uni-kiel.de/ufg

3

Hi Benjamin,

If you agree to write an entry, the responsible persons at Springer will provide you with a full list of entries. This is much more detailed than the TOC at the website I provided. It is ok if the entry is written by several persons, but they need one corresponding address and a person for signing the legal stuff (contract).

I am sorry that the timeframe is so short, I only recently had a glance at all the entries and only recently proposed the editors to add a few other projects/products to the list. Of course this shouldn't be an advertisement chapter, but should provide background information on the project, general software capabilities, history of the project, etc.

Maybe there are some existing articles out there on GRASS to start from.

Andreas

Benjamin Ducke wrote:

Dear colleagues,

I think we should not take this to lightly.
It is of * great * importance to place open source GIS and
geodata infrastructures in this book, as this looks like it could
evolve into a widely circulated reference.

I believe that the chapter on "Organizational, Professional, Social, Legal Aspects of GIS" would be the suitable place for an OS GIS chapter.
In addition, there is already a chapter called "Control of Information - dissemination of GIS information" and this should be subsituted with
some background on open geodata (if that has not already been done).

However, most of the GRASS developers and users can only contribute
such things in their spare time and I would guess that I will be
hard to find someone to write up a whole chapter 'til December.
I would be willing to add a few paragraphs and some pretty figures
on archaeological GRASS applications.

Mark, Michael -- maybe we could cooperate on this?

Best,

Benjamin

--
----------------------------------------------
Andreas Neumann
Institute of Cartography
ETH Zurich
Wolfgang-Paulistrasse 15
CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland

Phone: ++41-44-633 3031, Fax: ++41-44-633 1153
e-mail: neumann@karto.baug.ethz.ch
www: http://www.carto.net/neumann/
SVG.Open: http://www.svgopen.org/
Carto.net: http://www.carto.net/

4

On 11/8/06, Andreas Neumann <neumann@karto.baug.ethz.ch> wrote:

If you agree to write an entry, the responsible persons at Springer will
provide you with a full list of entries. This is much more detailed than
the TOC at the website I provided. It is ok if the entry is written by
several persons, but they need one ...

Will it not be better to start it on Wiki, so that many person can add
content quickly.
Needless to say, there need only one person who should lead and be
responsibe for final content.

--
H.S.Rai

5

I don't know if I have time to do this alone, but a doctoral student in my
lab (who has already taught a course on GRASS) is interested in
contributing. He is Isaac Ullah and I'm copying him so that all have each
others' emails.

Michael
__________________________________________
Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
Arizona State University

phone: 480-965-6213
fax: 480-965-7671
www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton

From: Andreas Neumann <neumann@karto.baug.ethz.ch>
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 14:26:06 +0100
To: Benjamin Ducke <benjamin.ducke@ufg.uni-kiel.de>
Cc: <grassuser@grass.itc.it>, Mark Lake <mark.lake@ucl.ac.uk>, Michael Barton
<michael.barton@asu.edu>
Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] Springer Encyclopedia of GIS, GRASS entry

Hi Benjamin,

If you agree to write an entry, the responsible persons at Springer will
provide you with a full list of entries. This is much more detailed than
the TOC at the website I provided. It is ok if the entry is written by
several persons, but they need one corresponding address and a person
for signing the legal stuff (contract).

I am sorry that the timeframe is so short, I only recently had a glance
at all the entries and only recently proposed the editors to add a few
other projects/products to the list. Of course this shouldn't be an
advertisement chapter, but should provide background information on the
project, general software capabilities, history of the project, etc.

Maybe there are some existing articles out there on GRASS to start from.

Andreas

Benjamin Ducke wrote:

Dear colleagues,

I think we should not take this to lightly.
It is of * great * importance to place open source GIS and
geodata infrastructures in this book, as this looks like it could
evolve into a widely circulated reference.

I believe that the chapter on "Organizational, Professional, Social,
Legal Aspects of GIS" would be the suitable place for an OS GIS chapter.
In addition, there is already a chapter called "Control of Information
- dissemination of GIS information" and this should be subsituted with
some background on open geodata (if that has not already been done).

However, most of the GRASS developers and users can only contribute
such things in their spare time and I would guess that I will be
hard to find someone to write up a whole chapter 'til December.
I would be willing to add a few paragraphs and some pretty figures
on archaeological GRASS applications.

Mark, Michael -- maybe we could cooperate on this?

Best,

Benjamin

--
----------------------------------------------
Andreas Neumann
Institute of Cartography
ETH Zurich
Wolfgang-Paulistrasse 15
CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland

Phone: ++41-44-633 3031, Fax: ++41-44-633 1153
e-mail: neumann@karto.baug.ethz.ch
www: http://www.carto.net/neumann/
SVG.Open: http://www.svgopen.org/
Carto.net: http://www.carto.net/

6

Hi.

I am starting a project to model ocean waves refraction using GRASS, by applying the Runge-Kutta method for solving differential equations.

I have made a search on the internet, and found scarce references to existing works.

I would appreciate any leads to examples and previous works.

Thanks

Armando Scalise
Argentina

7

Hi all,

I am currently in discussion with Springer if enhancing a Wiki entry and publishing it both to Wikipedia and Springer would work.

The postgis people proposed something similar.

Here is an example entry from Springer: http://www.carto.net/neumann/temp/VoronoiEntry.pdf just to show you how it may look like and that it will be doable until mid of december. It is 8 to at maximum 12 pages, incl. figures and references.

I would need one volunteer as a contact person. Who should I propose? It is ok, if there are multiple authors.

Andreas

Michael Barton wrote:

I don't know if I have time to do this alone, but a doctoral student in my
lab (who has already taught a course on GRASS) is interested in
contributing. He is Isaac Ullah and I'm copying him so that all have each
others' emails.

Michael
__________________________________________
Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
Arizona State University

phone: 480-965-6213
fax: 480-965-7671
www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton

--
----------------------------------------------
Andreas Neumann
Institute of Cartography
ETH Zurich
Wolfgang-Paulistrasse 15
CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland

Phone: ++41-44-633 3031, Fax: ++41-44-633 1153
e-mail: neumann@karto.baug.ethz.ch
www: http://www.carto.net/neumann/
SVG.Open: http://www.svgopen.org/
Carto.net: http://www.carto.net/

8

Dear All,

I think we should not take this to lightly.
It is of * great * importance to place open source GIS and
geodata infrastructures in this book, as this looks like it could
evolve into a widely circulated reference.

No doubt about that, but I'm hopelessly overcommitted at the moment with outstanding work. I might be able to contribute to a Wiki, or a specific paragraph or too if there's something others think I'm in a particularly strong position to contribute.

Mark

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Institute of Archaeology
University College London
31-34 Gordon Square
London. WC1H 0PY

Tel: +44 (0)207 679 7495
Fax: +44 (0)207 383 2572

9

2006/11/9, Mark Lake <mark.lake@ucl.ac.uk>:

Dear All,
>
> I think we should not take this to lightly.
> It is of * great * importance to place open source GIS and
> geodata infrastructures in this book, as this looks like it could
> evolve into a widely circulated reference.

wouldn't it be better to forward this to the OSGEO folks? Maybe Tyler
Mitchell would act as the contact person...
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10

Armando Scalise wrote:

I am starting a project to model ocean waves refraction using GRASS,
by applying the Runge-Kutta method for solving differential equations.

I have made a search on the internet, and found scarce references to
existing works.

I would appreciate any leads to examples and previous works.

A couple of us have used the SWAN wave model (GPL, FORTRAN) with GRASS.
  http://fluidmechanics.tudelft.nl/swan/default.htm

workflow was like:

generate DEM bathymetry in GRASS (v.surf.* and friends)
export bathymetry as ascii grid (r.out.ascii)
set up and run the model
load results into Matlab
do_stuff()
import back into GRASS with r.in.mat
do_stuff()
plot it. (ps.map, d.rast.arrow, r.contour, thresholds, ...)

Hamish

11

Hello,

I'd like to check back if we have decided for one person to write such an entry. Or if someone is already working on an entry.

I have someone else writing on Postgis and Qgis. It would be nice to have an entry on Grass as well.

Thanks for any information on this issue,
Andreas

Michael Barton wrote:

I don't know if I have time to do this alone, but a doctoral student in my
lab (who has already taught a course on GRASS) is interested in
contributing. He is Isaac Ullah and I'm copying him so that all have each
others' emails.

Michael
__________________________________________
Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
Arizona State University

phone: 480-965-6213
fax: 480-965-7671
www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton

--
----------------------------------------------
Andreas Neumann
Institute of Cartography
ETH Zurich
Wolfgang-Paulistrasse 15
CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland

Phone: ++41-44-633 3031, Fax: ++41-44-633 1153
e-mail: neumann@karto.baug.ethz.ch
www: http://www.carto.net/neumann/
SVG.Open: http://www.svgopen.org/
Carto.net: http://www.carto.net/

12

Unfortunately, I find myself unable to meet the December deadline.

I would be willing to review text and flesh it out but I don't have
the time to create anything substantial myself.

Really sorry about this, but I cannot realistically make a comitment
beyond that with my current workload.

Benjamin

Andreas Neumann wrote:

Hello,

I'd like to check back if we have decided for one person to write such an entry. Or if someone is already working on an entry.

I have someone else writing on Postgis and Qgis. It would be nice to have an entry on Grass as well.

Thanks for any information on this issue,
Andreas

Michael Barton wrote:

I don't know if I have time to do this alone, but a doctoral student in my
lab (who has already taught a course on GRASS) is interested in
contributing. He is Isaac Ullah and I'm copying him so that all have each
others' emails.

Michael
__________________________________________
Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
Arizona State University

phone: 480-965-6213
fax: 480-965-7671
www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton

--
Benjamin Ducke, M.A.
Archäoinformatik
(Archaeoinformation Science)
Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte
(Inst. of Prehistoric and Historic Archaeology)
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
Johanna-Mestorf-Straße 2-6
D 24098 Kiel
Germany

Tel.: ++49 (0)431 880-3378 / -3379
Fax : ++49 (0)431 880-7300
www.uni-kiel.de/ufg

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Okay,
I have some ressources to do that (I'm travelling a lot by train at
the moment).

But I need some facts:
1. When is the december deadline
2. Who#s already writing something about GRASS
3. Where are all pieces collected
4. What needs to be done?
5. which format (latex, odf, ...)

Just let me know....

Regards and good night
(yawning) Malte

Benjamin Ducke schrieb:

Unfortunately, I find myself unable to meet the December deadline.

I would be willing to review text and flesh it out but I don't have
the time to create anything substantial myself.

Really sorry about this, but I cannot realistically make a comitment
beyond that with my current workload.

Benjamin

Andreas Neumann wrote:

Hello,

I'd like to check back if we have decided for one person to write
such an entry. Or if someone is already working on an entry.

I have someone else writing on Postgis and Qgis. It would be nice
to have an entry on Grass as well.

Thanks for any information on this issue,
Andreas

Michael Barton wrote:

I don't know if I have time to do this alone, but a doctoral
student in my
lab (who has already taught a course on GRASS) is interested in
contributing. He is Isaac Ullah and I'm copying him so that all
have each
others' emails.

Michael
__________________________________________
Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
Arizona State University

phone: 480-965-6213
fax: 480-965-7671
www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton

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Hi Malte,

This would be great.

1. When is the december deadline

I don't know exactly. It might be in the middle of december or even in January? I am not the project manager. I had two different contracts with Springer. One was due in december, the other in january ...

2. Who#s already writing something about GRASS

?

3. Where are all pieces collected

Springer has an upload and review system. But anything prior to that should be organized by the Grass community (there was the proposal to use a Wiki page for that purpose, but I don't think there is anything concrete, currently)

4. What needs to be done?

the entry should be 8-12 pages - here is an example: http://www.carto.net/neumann/temp/VoronoiEntry.pdf

5. which format (latex, odf, ...)

they have latex or doc templates

If you agree to be the primary contact, I'll forward your contact information to the responsible person at Springer.

Thanks a lot,
Andreas

--
----------------------------------------------
Andreas Neumann
Institute of Cartography
ETH Zurich
Wolfgang-Paulistrasse 15
CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland

Phone: ++41-44-633 3031, Fax: ++41-44-633 1153
e-mail: neumann@karto.baug.ethz.ch
www: http://www.carto.net/neumann/
SVG.Open: http://www.svgopen.org/
Carto.net: http://www.carto.net/

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Andreas Neumann wrote:

>3. Where are all pieces collected
>
Springer has an upload and review system. But anything prior to that
should be organized by the Grass community (there was the proposal to
use a Wiki page for that purpose, but I don't think there is anything
concrete, currently)

I have now set up a wiki page for this:

http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/About_GRASS

Hamish

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Hi Andreas,
if it's okay for the grass- community, I'll be the primary contact.

I think we should promote grass as much as possible, because it's
pretty good software!

The first thing I need to know exactly is the december deadline.

Regards
Malte

Andreas Neumann schrieb:

If you agree to be the primary contact, I'll forward your contact
information to the responsible person at Springer.

Thanks a lot,
Andreas

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Hi Andreas,
if it's okay for the grass- community, I'll be the primary contact.

ok - if noone objects until tonight, I'll propose this to Jennifer Carlson (Springer).

I think we should promote grass as much as possible, because it's
pretty good software!

sure

The first thing I need to know exactly is the december deadline.

can't answer this one. Jennifer will answer it.

Thanks for stepping forward, Malte!

Andreas

--
----------------------------------------------
Andreas Neumann
Institute of Cartography
ETH Zurich
Wolfgang-Paulistrasse 15
CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland

Phone: ++41-44-633 3031, Fax: ++41-44-633 1153
e-mail: neumann@karto.baug.ethz.ch
www: http://www.carto.net/neumann/
SVG.Open: http://www.svgopen.org/
Carto.net: http://www.carto.net/

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Malte Halbey-Martin wrote:

Hi Andreas,
if it's okay for the grass- community, I'll be the primary contact.

Cheers! All good luck to you!

Maciek

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On Tuesday 21 November 2006 01:33, Malte Halbey-Martin wrote:

Hi Andreas,
if it's okay for the grass- community, I'll be the primary contact.

I think we should promote grass as much as possible, because it's
pretty good software!

The first thing I need to know exactly is the december deadline.

Regards
Malte

Andreas Neumann schrieb:
> If you agree to be the primary contact, I'll forward your contact
> information to the responsible person at Springer.
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Andreas

Thanks for stepping up to the task.

Cheers,

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Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group
University of California at Davis
530.754.7341