Next Steps

Next Steps#

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After a brief overview and introduction to geovista, hopefully you’ll be keen to explore and learn more.

The next step you choose to take is a personal one. It depends on how you best learn given what you want to achieve.

To help us, help you, get the best out of geovista, we’ve adopted the Diátaxis framework to authoring our documentation.

It provides best practice advice on how to organise documentation in a systematic way, with a focus on content and style that addresses the four distinct needs of documentation users (see Fig. 3:).

Diátaxis Axes of Needs

Fig. 3: Diátaxis Axes of Needs#

So if you learn by doing, then explore our hands-on themed lessons or topic specific how-tos:

Tutorials

Topic driven themed lessons.

Tutorials
🚧 How-To Guides

Treasure trove of focused guides.

How-To Guides 🚧

If you learn by studying, then delve into unfolding explanations or simply consult the facts:

🚧 Explanation

Deeper understanding awaits.

Explanation 🚧
Reference

No fuss facts.

Reference

If you’re visually motivated and simply want to see some eye-candy, then why not dive straight into our gallery. Alternatively, use our topic based tags to navigate your way to gallery examples organised by specific features:

Examples

Peruse the Gallery.

Examples
Tags

Examples themed by feature.

Tags

However, if you’re a developer and want to contribute, then we’ve curated some best practice, process and advice that’ll help you get up and running in a snap:

Contributing

Developer guidelines.

Contributing