Earth Engine Data question policy

Question

Landsat 8 Collection 2 anomalies in TIRS1 data (from QA_PIXEL and ST_QA) was recently closed as off-topic, but as the google-earth-engine data ingestion lead, I'm very interested in seeing such questions - it's hard to tell in some cases whether the problem is with EE itself or with the data. Even if the problem is about data, keeping these questions in the same GIS site seems convenient to me, as people are likely to search it later.

I now know there's also an Open Data Stack Exchange, but it covers so much that keeping GIS data in the GIS SE seems preferable to me but in cases when Open Data is a better fit, can I ask to close such questions with a comment about using Open Data instead so that users would know what to do?

Answer 1

Any speculation that the question you referenced was closed because it involved Open Data seems unwarranted, although I do note that a user not involved in the close/re-open voting process did mention Open Data in a comment.

The timeline for the question shows:

1. I voted to close the question for our Custom Close Reason of:

Not suitable for this site → When seeking help to debug/write/improve code always provide the desired behavior, a specific problem/error and the shortest code (as formatted text, not pictures) needed to reproduce it in the question body. Providing a clear problem statement and a code attempt helps others to help you.

2. Asker edited their question but did not include "code (as formatted text, not pictures) needed to reproduce it in the question body". That edit triggered the question to enter the review queue.

3. Three users reviewed the question and voted to leave the question closed because the "Original close reason(s) were not resolved"

4. Asker edited their question and included code as formatted text in the question body.

5. Five users reviewed the question and voted to re-open the question, thereby re-opening the question.

I can see no reason to "close such questions with a comment about using Open Data instead" because this question was closed for lacking code as formatted text in the body of the question, and its closure was unrelated to Open Data.