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This is the planning and work page for the OSGeo Journal - Volume 4 publication.

If you want to contribute an article, add it to this list in the appropriate category.

Please review the Journal License and Guidelines page before adding your article to either article list.

Deadlines

Articles welcome: Now
Articles requiring peer review, Submission Ends: TBD
Article Submission Ends: February 15, 2008
Editing will take places as articles are received
Final Publication: March 31, 2008

Special Section: Annual Report

There will be a substantial section of this volume to covering the OSGeo 2007 Annual Report. Other articles, as below will also be included in this volume.

Contributors / Topics

See Journal for definition of the following categories. Add yourself if you are interested. Note that all categories don't have to be filled, so this serves as a rough outline for the types of content we generally hope to have.

Editorials

Tyler Mitchell: General updates

News

Editor: Jason Fournier
Author: Rafal Wawer; email: Rafal.Wawer@sadl.kuleuven.be An International Symposium and an International Information Workshop on FOSS4G. Warsaw, June 16th-19th http://www.geostudio.pl/tmp/OSGeoNews_CaSCADOSS_2008_events_v3.pdf
Author: Rafal Wawer; email: Rafal.Wawer@sadl.kuleuven.be Summer Course on FOSS4G http://www.geostudio.pl/tmp/News_KOI_2008.pdf
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Event Reports (2-3 articles)

Ahmed Abu El Nasr, Jos Van Orshoven, Rafal Wawer. Rafal.Wawer@sadl.kuleuven.be, 2007 Summer training course Land evaluation with Open Source Geomatics tools with emphasis on the GRASS for Windows software http://www.geostudio.pl/tmp/EventReport_KOI07.pdf

Project Introductions (1-2 articles)

Jason Jorgenson LandUse Analyst This project aims to define a settlement's use of, and impact on, their surrounding landscape.

Case Studies (2-3 articles)

Peter Löwe: Wanderlust 2.0: The state and future of hiking trail management in Germany with FOSS GIS
Peter Wilkins: An Image Request application using FOSS4G tools
Chris West, Mark Gillis, Brian Low, and Alex Song. chwest@nrcan.gc.ca, Using Open Source to Analyze Canada's National Forest Inventory

Integration Studies (2-3 articles)

Aaron Peeke-Vout and Brian Low, Aaron.Peeke-Vout@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca, Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI)-In-A-Box, a Footprint to Deliver Geospatial Data through Open Source Applications.
Tomas Cebecauer and Marcel Suri, tomas.cebecauer@jrc.it, Exporting geospatial data to web Tiled Map Services Using GRASS GIS.
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Topical Studies (1-2 articles)

Markus Lupp: Standards for Styling: OGC publishes 1.1.0 version of Symbology Encoding and Styled Layer Descriptor (about[1])

Landon Blake: Geospatial Metadata (Sample Chapter From The Free GIS Book)

Programming Tutorials (1-2 articles)

Interview(s)

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Sponsor Perspectives

WhereGroup...
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Developer Announcements

OSGeo project summaries
OSGeo Local Chapter updates
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 #Aaron Peeke-Vout and Brian Low, Aaron.Peeke-Vout@nrcan-rncan.gc.ca, Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI)-In-A-Box, a Footprint to Deliver Geospatial Data through Open Source Applications.
+#Tomas Cebecauer and Marcel Suri, tomas.cebecauer@jrc.it, '''Exporting geospatial data to web Tiled Map Services Using GRASS GIS.'''
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