Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Making the chat more visible?
A proposed feature
After Vince suggested to a user who had a question that it could be treated as a nice open discussion on the chat, I tried to search for it on our main page.
I found only two ...
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Does offline geocoding have perspectives in 21st Century? [closed]
There was a question Would you consider online geocoding a breach of privacy? asked 9 years ago. Since that time many things have been changed and evoked, e.g. much efficient algorithms and data ...
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GIS Chat and the Hot Network Questions
Many of you know of, and occasionally use, the GIS SE Chat Room. In January of this year I modified the chat room to also include a feed that posted a link to GIS SE Questions whenever they feature ...
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Relevant question on Open Data
GIS has migrated many questions to OpenData. We are happy to try to answer them!
I posted this data about how to package geojson timeseries for public accessibility. It's more appropriate on OD, but ...
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Community Promotion Ads — 2020
2020 has come! But… oops, where did the time go? It’s already March! Belated as it is, it’s time for a refresh of Community Promotion Ads!
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads ...
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Understanding why post is hidden
How do I make the answers to my questions posted earlier visible?
https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/294451/using-rasterfromxyz-in-r-for-qgis-under-krige-baye?noredirect=1#comment472727_294451
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Is GIS stackexchange ill?
I come here from time to time, mostly to read the month top questions and answers. Even if I haven't been very active, I've been around for quite some time (my first recorded interaction with this ...
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Do Google Earth and Google Earth Pro need separate tags?
Currently we have tags for:
google-earth with 584 questions and a wiki excerpt of:
Google's virtual globe application that allows users to view 3D
buildings, imagery, terrain, any other ...
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What do you think is the most appropriate way to apply the “Needs more focus” close reason?
Today I found the following question post:
Multiple perpendicular cross sections
It seemed to me that the question was "too broad", and I wanted to cast a closing vote for that reason.
In ...
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Is tag [vector-grid] appropriate for the Leaflet plugin for vector tile layers (L.VectorGrid)?
The description of the vector-grid tag says:
Use for questions about vector grids which are also known as fishnets
However there are these questions, which are about the Leaflet plugin for vector ...
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Using version tags for PostgreSQL
We currently have the following tags related to PostgreSQL:
postgresql with 3,042 questions
postgresql-10 with 27 questions
postgresql-9.6 with 17 questions
postgresql-9.5 with 8 questions
Do we ...
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Why was question about PostGIS spatial functions closed?
Why was the question Finding holes in proposed districts (Polygons/Multipolygons) closed?
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Why was a solaris question closed?
can someone clarify why CRS error working with Solaris was closed as off-topic?
It is asking about the solaris python library for geospatial analysis and is asking a specific question about a bug/...
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2019: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...
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Spam flag on a post with obvious undisclosed affiliation declined
On Nov 24 I red-flagged this post because:
it is a link-only answer
the username of the OP partly matches the domain name
the avatar of the author in the About page of the blog matches the gravatar ...
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Is the [tag:qgis-plugins] tag for questions about *writing* plugins, or questions about *using* plugins?
The qgis-plugins tag has three main categories of questions:
Questions by people who are developing a plugin. These questions tend to be highly technical, and involve pyqgis code.
Example: Object ...
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Evaluation of tag [nearest-neighbor] being wrongly used to tag questions about [proximity]/[nearest] & [knn]? [duplicate]
I found Improving tagging of questions with [nearest-neighbor] and related tags addressing the issue exactly, but neither can I follow if there have been any changes made, nor, and more importantly, ...
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Answer gets accepted but does not answer revised question
I am quite unsure about what to do, if my answer got accepted, but does not (in my opinion) answer the actual problem, but the original question.
In comments to my answer the actual problem got ...
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python-X vs pythonX tags
Would it be better to use, for example, python3 tag instead of python-3 because python3 is the command used to launch python3 on any operating system?
A related and interesting question is
Tagging ...
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Do we need [projection-mathematics] and [reprojection-mathematics] tags?
At Using/synonymizing/merging [coordinate-system] and [projection] tags? we synonymized a number of tags related to coordinate systems.
Today I noticed Re-projection issues with Azimuthal Equidistant ...
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Should [Oracle-18c] tag be added?
I see that we have version-specific tags for Oracle:
oracle-10g with 13 questions
oracle-11g with 89 questions
oracle-12c with 11 questions
Do we need to add a tag for Oracle 18c?
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Do we need [customization] tag?
There is currently a customization tag which has 112 questions and a tag wiki excerpt of:
Modifying the default state of an application to suit a user's
preferences or to address the unique ...
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Are the [arcgis-portal] and [portal] tags duplicates?
It looks like there are two tags in GIS-SE that are related to the concept of portal:
ArcGIS-Portal:
Portal for ArcGIS allows you to share maps, applications, and other
geographic ...
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Adding ArcGIS-10.7 tag
It looks like the ArcGIS 10.7 tag has not yet been added to GIS SE.
Now that 10.7 is available, should we add this tag?
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Why are titles being edited from questions to phrases?
In 2011 and 2012 there were discussions on Meta about ensuring that titles were grammatically correct questions.
I seem to remember there was a campaign to edit new questions to ensure that:
A ...
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Is a Pythonic MCVE acceptable for this top voted accepted GIS SE answer?
I am in the process of writing my question requesting a clarification of this top voted accepted GIS SE answer - Using Geohash for proximity searches and I have a pythonic attempt as an MCVE. Is that ...
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Questions closed for “a specific problem/error and code to reproduce it” when the question is not about an error
Recently, I have seen several questions closed for the close reason
"When seeking help to debug/write/improve code always provide the desired behavior, a specific problem/error and the shortest ...
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GIS Survey similar to Stack Overflow's Developer Survey?
I think that it would be really helpful and insightful if there was an annual GIS Survey for gis.stackexchange in the model of Stack Overflow's Developer Survey.
Is there a particular way that this ...
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Using [bbox] and [extents] tags?
We currently have tags for:
bbox which has 32 questions and a tag wiki which says:
bbox is a shortened form of bounding box
extents which has 543 questions and a tag wiki which says:
An extent ...
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Are Google abusing us?
I've noticed a recent(ish) uptick in poor quality questions about Google Earth Engine google-earth-engine and we appear to have currently 259 unanswered questions (out of 1027).
So wondering why ...
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Closing non-coding questions for no code included?
Sometimes a person will ask a "How to do X?" question. Then someone comments, "You could use code to implement [general approach Y]." Then the question gets closed as off-topic because they didn't ...
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A chat room for posting or discussing SE questions from other sites related to GIS [duplicate]
Most SE sites will have a general purpose chat room as a sort-of catch-all; a way to:
ping a moderator
ask for advice about the topicality of an issue before posting it or writing an explanation in a ...
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Should a Parallel (or so-called “fourth”) Site Exist for GIS Stack Exchange?
A lot of people come here asking questions in good faith in the understanding that GIS Stack Exchange exists primarily to help those who come to the table with GIS questions. Unfortunately, a lot of ...
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Should Moderators Stop Pointing to the Chat Room on Questions?
I see a lot of moderators pointing users to the chat room (often without hint as to where to find the chat room). And when users do manage to find it (or are actually given a link to it), they find ...
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How does the community feel about non-arcpy answers to arcpy questions?
Background
Due do the nature of my current workload, I've been ending up at gis.stackexchange (instead of stackoverflow) more often.
Once here, I poke around the python and help someone out if time ...
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Is question about finding API to get UK postcode for city on-topic at GIS SE?
I am looking for a simple, reliable and free (gratis) API which will return the corresponding UK street name for a UK postcode (preferably with no registration or key required) and am wondering where ...
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What if we receive offer to pay?
Usually, I receive responses to my post like "hey your answer does not work", or "thank you, but..." and it seems natural (as it is serious business for OPs).
Just recently I received a generous ...
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Asking for specific custom implementations?
Would you deem a question like (highly simplified)
Did anybody implement [a specific function/algorithm] in the PostgreSQL/PostGIS environment [or know of someone who did/shares a
code-base]?
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Where to ask questions about OpenDataCube?
The OpenDataCube is an open source project that is aimed at making it easier to work with large volumes of earth observation data.
The ODC Steering Council is the technical governance group who lead ...
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Finding questions which are answered in comments?
It is a common problem in Stack Exchange when users use comments to write answers instead of posting them as actual answers in the answer box. Sometimes, the motive for doing so is legit, but it is ...
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Synonymizing ArcGIS dot release tags with ArcGIS major release tags?
The GIS Meta Q&A on Keep or delete [qgis-3] version tag? has resulted in:
all the QGIS 3.x tags being made synonyms of the qgis-3 tag; and
all the QGIS 2.x tags being made synonyms of the qgis-2 ...
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What are the downsides of not deleting our own comments?
From Meta Stack Exchange, How do comments work?:
... . Comments are often used to ask for clarification on, suggest corrections to, and provide meta-information about posts. ... .
Usually, users ...
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Why do some users close many questions as too broad or unclear?
As a beginner contributor, I have faced many of others' questions closed by a group consisting of similar users (which I'm not gonna say their names) while the questions were so helpful and they had ...
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Community Promotion Ads — 2019 [duplicate]
2019 is here! And with the new year, as usual, comes a new iteration of Community Promotion Ads! Let’s refresh these for the coming year :)
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads ...
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Is there any point approving minor edits to very old questions?
For example, this: https://gis.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/154910
It's just a minor edit "for grammer" to a question that is over 4 years old. I know this has been raised before, but it ...
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Are [iterator], [iteration] and [loop] tags all needed?
We currently have tags for:
iterator with 262 questions and a tag wiki excerpt of
In computer programming, an iterator is an object that enables a
programmer to traverse a container.
loop with ...
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Asking questions in English when using software version that is in another language?
I have one QGIS on my personal laptop in English, and another QGIS at work in French. I find it much harder to search for help when working from the French version because the keywords (and the tool ...
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2018: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...
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Deleting merged questions asked by the same OP?
Sometimes I run into merged posts asked by the same OP (so, nearly identical posts) which are then marked duplicates (the stub) from the canonical ones (the master). As a consequence of this process, ...
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Reputation limiting actions is a problem [duplicate]
I understand why reputation limits user actions, as it makes moderation easier, however it's very frustrating. I've got a few fairly niche GIS questions, and i'd love to be able to comment on older ...
