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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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
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 ...
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Choosing Geographic Information Systems or Earth Science Stack Exchange to ask Geographic questions? [duplicate]
I want to ask here first because I want to know well okay I check out the list of question here and many are about Geographic but in programming my question is could I ask about Geographic general ...
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Adding 'bug reports' to off-topic close reasons dialog?
This is mainly about bug reports, but not only about them. We already discussed in What should we do with bug reports? and decided to close these as off-topic.
This is also linked in our help center ...
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Why was question closed for being primarily opinion-based?
The intent of my question was to ask if you can improve accuracy for position determination when you have a local atomic clock at hand.
Can GNSS precision be improved with a local atomic clock?
Why ...
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Using [fields] and [field-properties] tags?
We currently have:
419 questions tagged only as fields which has a tag wiki excerpt of:
In GIS, Fields, also known as attributes, contain information about
features.
35 questions tagged only as ...
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Branding our site as Geographic Information Systems or GIS?
As you will see from the URL and banner at the top of this site, and in the picture below which uses our updated site theme, we mix its branding as Geographic Information Systems and GIS.
This is ...
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GIS's updated site theme is live!
UPDATE - We've pushed this live for everyone now. Thanks to those who took the time to give feedback. Please do know, being live doesn't mean we can't address further changes for you! Write an answer ...
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Using [labeling] and [label-expression] tags?
We currently have:
1,366 questions tagged only as labeling
10 questions tagged only as label-expression
9 questions tagged as both labeling and label-expression
Do we need both the labeling and ...
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Keep or delete [qgis-3] version tag?
We have a versionless tag for qgis and individual tags for each minor version, eg qgis-2.18, qgis-3.0 and qgis-3.2.
Now there's a new tag, qgis-3.
Should qgis-3 be merged with one of the other ...
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Re-opening question about Installing PostGIS into schema other than public?
I believe that Add PostGIS spatial functions to a custom schema other than "public" in PostgreSQL shouldn't have been closed because it's not a duplicate of Using schema other than public in ...
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What is the etiquette about deleting a competing comment from own post?
Suppose there is a discussion question in GIS Meta with two or more answers. One of them is an answer of mine, and another one is a competing answer from a user who has the privilege to delete ...
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New close reason for when question does not show any research effort?
Questions that don't show any research effort usually get closed with the reason "unclear" or "too broad."
However, some questions are perfectly clear and specific, yet not acceptable due to lack of ...
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Should we merge the [pyqgis] and [pyqgis-3] tags?
The release of QGIS 3 has brought many updates, one significant change is its Python bindings or as it's more commonly known as PyQGIS. I have noticed the recent introduction of the pyqgis-3 tag, here ...
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Edit that changes a user's choice of software
I came across a question where a user originally asked for software to complete a particular analysis:
How can I find the highest path of a DEM or contours file within an
area?
and suggested FME ...
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Can we merge all of our current tag synonyms?
According to What are tag synonyms and merged tags? How do they work?
All good tag synonyms should eventually be merged.
Currently, we have 60 non-merged, and stable synonyms (see EvilGenius's ...
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Policy for users reporting their employment status at commercial software companies?
What is the policy on GIS SE for employees of software companies to add this information to their profiles?
I believe users should add to their profile that they are an employee of a commercial ...
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Re-tagging to de-emphasize ArcGIS Desktop product in favour of its applications?
At Using tags [arcmap] and [arcgis-desktop]? consensus is being built to cease tagging every new question about the ArcGIS Desktop product with the arcgis-desktop tag in favour of a tagging scheme ...
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Using tags [arcmap] and [arcgis-desktop]?
Edit: so far, the top two leading answers suggests replacing (or reducing use of) arcgis-desktop with more specific tags.
Therefore, I suggest narrowing the discussion about doing something (or not) ...
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Improving use of tags [postgis] and [postgresql]?
Is there anything we can do to improve how questions are tagged postgresql and/or postgis in GIS SE?
PostgreSQL is an object-relational database which supports spatial/geometry data, hence, there are ...
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Posting broad/general questions that may be useful for others?
I wanted to open a question asking about visualization techniques in GIS beyond conventional methods enabled by Arc/QGIS toolkit. I.e. my recent question/answer Creating regularly spaced points inside ...
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Any way to combat abuse of downvotes?
I recently had a moderator edit one of my posts, but the edit only changed a couple nit picky stylistic things and added nothing substantive. As a result, I rolled back the edit. Shortly thereafter, ...
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Are questions about generalized geodesics suitable for GIS despite being off-topic?
I recently asked Which algorithms can be used to generate a euclidean embedding for a manifold given a pairwise distance matrix of geodesics? at Stack Overflow, and @EvgenyPogrebnyak indicated that I ...
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Why was this question put on hold as off-topic?
I'm referring to Quick OSM Save As Shapefile error "Can't create field" on GIS Stack Exchange. In summary,
The asker was trying to save a layer from the quick OSM plugin as a shapefile ...
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Tagging with jts-topology-suite and/or jsts?
We currently have tags for:
jsts with 5 questions and a tag wiki excerpt that advises to:
Use this tag when referring to the jsts (java) library
jts-topology-suite with 84 questions and a tag ...
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Adding SQL (and other) Style guides to Tour?
Would it be appropriate to add style guides to the tour, eg, this very nice SQL style guide? I see a lot of questions like this one where the formatting is so awful, I find it almost impossible to ...
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How are [clip] and [crop] tags different?
Currently, we have clip x700 and crop x57. Their excerpts mostly overlap:
Clip:
To limit or reduce the extent of one dataset by the extents or boundary of another.
Crop:
In this context means ...
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How many tags for kriging interpolation?
I have just read a question tagged cokriging, and this tag currently has only two questions under it.
I paid attention into this subject because I had previously helped curating the kriging tag (see:...
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When is it appropriate to tag Python or Arcpy?
This metapost discusses the use of python tags for Shapely libraries and the top-voted answer suggests that removing the python tags
limits the potential audience as those who favourite the python tag ...
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Rename tag: proj.4 to proj
Recently the familiar projection library PROJ incremented the major version number from 4 to 5, as described in the NEWS file. Version 4 of this software is popularly known as PROJ.4, however newer ...
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Using tags for large datasets and big data?
We currently have tags for:
large-datasets with 73 questions
difficult to process and manage because the size is usually bigger
than the limits software can normally deal with.
big-data with 41 ...
