[Viscom-dev] RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Update on the Free GIS Book

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Landon-

The branding czars are here – what can we help you with?

-mpg

From: discuss-bounces@lists.osgeo.org on behalf of Sunburned Surveyor
Sent: Mon 3/19/2007 11:47 AM
To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Update on the Free GIS Book

I’ve added a post to the OpenJUMP Blog detailing my recent and upcoming work on the Free GIS Book. You can read the blog post here:
http://openjump.blogspot.com/

I’d like to know if anyone can provide me a source of information about the use of RADAR and other technology to measure distances in cartography and geodesy applications. I mention this briefly in my section of the Mapping Math chapter on “Measuring Distances”, but I don’t know very much about it and would like to do some research to make sure what I’m saying is correct.

I’d also like to start laying out a print version of the chapter, as I’m accumlating what will be at least a few pages of material. I can start on a layout for a hard copy version of the Free GIS Book, but I’d like to get some input from the OSGeo “branding” folks if possible.

As always, I welcome comments and suggestions on the chapter material.

Thanks,

Landon (A.K.A. - The Sunburned Surveyor)

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Michael,

I want to start setting up a PDF version of the Free GIS Book chapter I am working on in Scribus. Is there a place where I can get the OSGeo logo in digital format? Does the OSGeo have a set of preferred colors and fonts types?

Thanks,

Landon

On 3/20/07, Michael P. Gerlek <mpg@lizardtech.com> wrote:

Landon-

The branding czars are here – what can we help you with?

-mpg

From: discuss-bounces@lists.osgeo.org on behalf of Sunburned Surveyor
Sent: Mon 3/19/2007 11:47 AM
To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Update on the Free GIS Book

I’ve added a post to the OpenJUMP Blog detailing my recent and upcoming work on the Free GIS Book. You can read the blog post here:
http://openjump.blogspot.com/

I’d like to know if anyone can provide me a source of information about the use of RADAR and other technology to measure distances in cartography and geodesy applications. I mention this briefly in my section of the Mapping Math chapter on “Measuring Distances”, but I don’t know very much about it and would like to do some research to make sure what I’m saying is correct.

I’d also like to start laying out a print version of the chapter, as I’m accumlating what will be at least a few pages of material. I can start on a layout for a hard copy version of the Free GIS Book, but I’d like to get some input from the OSGeo “branding” folks if possible.

As always, I welcome comments and suggestions on the chapter material.

Thanks,

Landon (A.K.A. - The Sunburned Surveyor)

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Landon,
Have a peek at:
http://www.osgeo.org/visibility for logos, etc. Stick with the same colours as the logo uses and you can’t go wrong. We don’t have preferred font that I know of.

Tyler

On 2-Apr-07, at 6:54 AM, Sunburned Surveyor wrote:

Michael,

I want to start setting up a PDF version of the Free GIS Book chapter I am working on in Scribus. Is there a place where I can get the OSGeo logo in digital format? Does the OSGeo have a set of preferred colors and fonts types?

Thanks,

Landon

On 3/20/07, Michael P. Gerlek <mpg@lizardtech.com> wrote:

Landon-

The branding czars are here – what can we help you with?

-mpg

From: discuss-bounces@lists.osgeo.org on behalf of Sunburned Surveyor
Sent: Mon 3/19/2007 11:47 AM
To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Update on the Free GIS Book

I’ve added a post to the OpenJUMP Blog detailing my recent and upcoming work on the Free GIS Book. You can read the blog post here:
http://openjump.blogspot.com/

I’d like to know if anyone can provide me a source of information about the use of RADAR and other technology to measure distances in cartography and geodesy applications. I mention this briefly in my section of the Mapping Math chapter on “Measuring Distances”, but I don’t know very much about it and would like to do some research to make sure what I’m saying is correct.

I’d also like to start laying out a print version of the chapter, as I’m accumlating what will be at least a few pages of material. I can start on a layout for a hard copy version of the Free GIS Book, but I’d like to get some input from the OSGeo “branding” folks if possible.

As always, I welcome comments and suggestions on the chapter material.

Thanks,

Landon (A.K.A. - The Sunburned Surveyor)

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Sure we do: Bitstream Vera (open source font). It’s defined in the branding guide. Of course, the branding guide also says that you can buy copies of this font at fontshop.com (you can’t) :slight_smile:

http://www.osgeo.org/logos

http://www.bitstream.com/font_rendering/products/dev_fonts/vera.html

Vera is a bit limited in international character support; DejaVu (a Vera derivative) does a better job in many cases, and we may want to consider officially supporting this font in preference to Vera at some point:

http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Jason

From: Tyler Mitchell
Subject: Re: [Viscom-dev] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Update on the Free GIS Book

Landon,Have a peek at:
http://www.osgeo.org/visibility for logos, etc. Stick with the same colours as the logo uses and you can’t go wrong. We don’t have preferred font that I know of.

Tyler

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Keep in mind that fonts for logos & brochures & stuff are often not appropriate fonts for large amounts of text, e.g. a book… (that said, any decent serif font is probably okay)

-mpg

From: viscom-dev-bounces@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:viscom-dev-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jason Birch
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 8:40 AM
To: Visibility Committee Discussion List
Subject: RE: [Viscom-dev] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Update on the Free GIS Book

Sure we do: Bitstream Vera (open source font). It’s defined in the branding guide. Of course, the branding guide also says that you can buy copies of this font at fontshop.com (you can’t) :slight_smile:

http://www.osgeo.org/logos

http://www.bitstream.com/font_rendering/products/dev_fonts/vera.html

Vera is a bit limited in international character support; DejaVu (a Vera derivative) does a better job in many cases, and we may want to consider officially supporting this font in preference to Vera at some point:

http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Jason

From: Tyler Mitchell
Subject: Re: [Viscom-dev] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Update on the Free GIS Book

Landon,Have a peek at:
http://www.osgeo.org/visibility for logos, etc. Stick with the same colours as the logo uses and you can’t go wrong. We don’t have preferred font that I know of.

Tyler