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How the flagging system works?

If I'm not wrong, there is the possibility to raise up a maximum of 10 flags, but I don't know how the system works. I imagine that, if I have 10 pending flag raised, I can't flag any more post, but ...
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Edited tag wiki, but didn't receive tally to research assistant badge?

I haven't found any posts discussing not receiving a tally for tag wiki edits. I have edited at least 4 tag wikis, received approval and have not seen any updates to my research assistant tally? ...
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Announcing Winter Bash 2016 for GIS SE (unless hat haters make their case ASAP)?

Season’s greetings, GIS Stack Exchange users! The year is rapidly coming to a close, which means even though we typically hate it, it’s time to have some fun...with hats! That’s right - it’s time ...
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How can "This edit conflicted with a subsequent edit" happen?

I just got an edit rejected during review, with the reason: This edit conflicted with a subsequent edit. Looking at the subsequent conflicting review, it's not that different from mine. I am just ...
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Project Reduplication of Deduplication - GIS

Stack Exchange recently started a collaboration project with the University of Melbourne, in an attempt to improve the automatic detection of duplicate questions. More information on the project and ...
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Removing personal email addresses from questions?

This answer (before it was deleted by the votes of six non-moderators) included the user's personal email address. To me this seems to work against GIS SE because if the questioner decides to act ...
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Is it time to make [openlayers] tag synonym of [openlayers-3] instead of [openlayers-2]?

18 months ago we made the openlayers tag a synonym of openlayers-2 as a result of Should openlayers-2 and openlayers be synonyms? Although I am not an OpenLayers user, it now seems to me that most ...
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Using GIS SE rather than Stack Overflow for Here Maps questions?

I'm programming for living and StackOverflow is a life savior for all kinds of issues. Sometimes, when I dig deeper into a very specific aspect (such as geometries or design), it's actually better to ...
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Improving wording of "no GIS component" custom close reason?

We currently have a custom close reason that basically says GIS SE is for GIS questions and there are other sites that you should use for general IT questions, even if they relate to something that a ...
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When and how should "We are not a GIS Software Support Site" be invoked?

There is a short paragraph on the Help which I have always felt some discomfort with: We are not a GIS Software Support Site. We encourage you to seek official routes for support for specific ...
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Regarding the 2016 Community Moderator Election Candidate Score

I was considering nominating myself as a candidate but I figure my candidate score is probably too low to throw my hat in the ring at this time. Is there a way to find out what my candidate score is ...
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2016 Community Moderator Election - Process

The 2016 Community Moderator Election is now underway! Community moderator elections have three phases: Nomination phase Primary phase Election phase Most elections take between two and three weeks,...
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Are questions about spelling of geography locations on-topic?

Although this website appeared (initially) to be all things about Geography, after reading the help section and despite it claiming its audience is wide I think my question is not on topic: am I ...
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Is there a grace period for moderator action?

This is mostly out of personal interest in how things are done. I did not find the answer in Who are the moderators, and what is their role here? which seemed like a likely location for the answer. ...
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Editing tag descriptions?

I just created a new tag for hexagonal-grid; there is a growing number of questions on this kind of grid or sampling system and no tag to gather them. However, I can not find any mechanism to add a ...
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Can we have Mapshaper tag?

Mapshaper is a great open source tool and online resource for simplifying maps and boundaries and working with geojson, topojson and other formats. It's pretty simple but some of the usage of its ...
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Referring to JavaScript Libraries in tag names?

I'm a bit confused on tagging and references to Javascript libraries. I sometimes use OpenLayers and Leaflet and have seen questions tagged without the '.js' affix (e.g. D3), while in other instances, ...
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Setting CartoDB tag to synonym of CARTO?

With the rebrand of CartoDB to CARTO we need help from a moderator or someone with +2500 reputation points to set up carto as synonym of cartodb so we keep all questions organized.
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If a moderator holds a question, does s/he get notified when I edit the question to address the hold?

If a moderator holds a question, does s/he get notified when I edit the question to address the hold? Or do I need to comment in reply to the moderator that I've changed the question?
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Add tag 'Galileo'

As the Galileo GPS is now approaching full service status, can we create the tag 'Galileo' and add it to the following questions: Android devices and apps with support for Galileo positioning? Is ...
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Implementing new tag for version 4 of ArcGIS API for JavaScript?

Esri recently released version 4 of the ArcGIS Server JavaScript API - see https://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/ and https://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/latest/guide/choose-version/index.html ...
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Consider including TAG "osmdroid"

I do not yet have enough reputation to propose tags in questions. Can someone with more reputation create a tag for osmdroid, please? It is a free, open source Android library that provides Tools /...
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Can the linked-open-data lose its synonym to open data?

I see that the linked-open-data tag is marked as a synonym to open-data, but I think that is a mistake. Whilst the term does have the words open and data, questions on linked open data are not, I ...
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Do we need separate tags for Layer Files (*.lyr) and Layer Definition Files (*.qlr)?

From Does QGIS have the equivalent of ArcGIS's Layer (*.LYR) file? my understanding is that these two file types can be considered equivalent in functionality: Layer File (*.lyr) of ArcGIS for ...
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Can we have an hdfs tag?

I tried creating an hdfs tag an acronym for Hadoop Distributed File System, but it got blocked because there is an hdf tag ~ Hierarchical Data Format (HDF) Can we have an hdfs tag?
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What to do with ArcGIS tag after burnination?

The ambiguous arcgis tag is approaching burnination with less than 50 questions still bearing it, and still needing their content checked to determine whether they should be re-tagged as arcgis-...
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How to get a question flagged without enough reputation to do so?

The question sum count column in raster attribute seems to be a duplicate of count attribute in raster. They're both from the same user and the user seem to be confused and asked the question in a ...
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How many tags are needed for ArcPy questions?

At the moment we have two arcpy* tags: arcpy - 4,262 questions including 182 questions and answers tagged arcpy mentioning arcpy.mapping; and 203 questions and answers tagged arcpy mentioning arcpy....
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Asking questions about obtaining free geospatial data? [duplicate]

I have asked a question about downloading free geospatial data on the Open Data (beta) Stack Exchange but because of the temporarily low traffic of this beta site, this question has reached to only 9 ...
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GIS SE home page, is the beta jobs link crowding the earlier tabs a known issue?

I just noticed that the questions tab is overflowing on to the GIS home page title due to the addition of the new jobs key. I don't know if it is a glitch SE is already working on or if we need to ...
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Is GIS SE participating in 2015 Winter Bash Holiday Hats Promotion?

I came across this post at the Academia SE and I wondered if members at GIS SE would like to participate in the 2015 Winter Bash Holiday Hats Promotion too? Are we participating in 2015 SE '...
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Improving wording of "non-reproducible" custom close reason?

Currently, we have the following as one of the three close reasons that we (as moderators) are able to customize locally for GIS SE: Questions describing a problem that can't be reproduced and ...
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Is tag for [bug] needed when "We are not a formal GIS Software Support Site"?

On our What topics can I ask about here? page we say explicitly with some bolding: We are not a formal GIS Software Support Site and are likely to close questions and recommend you seek official ...
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Please create the [google-earth-engine] tag

There are currently 3 questions on GIS Stack Exchange referring to Google's Earth Engine. These are all tagged with other Google products (google-earth, google-earth-api, google-maps-engine). I ...
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Why do I see so many answers in the Late Answers Review Queue?

Has something just changed with Stackexchange? Why do I see 600+ Answers in the 'Late Answers' Queue?
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What does shading of user's icon indicate?

Just been bumbling around on GIS SE and I noticed that some users have a shaded affect around their image next to their user name, whilst others do not, what does this shading indicated? I'm not ...
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Why do questions without recent activity show as modified by Community?

I've seen this a few time lately and I'm curious if there's a reason for it or if it's a bug. On the front page (questions by active), this question shows that it was modified by Community recently: ...
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Describing GIS Stack Exchange on its Tour page?

This question refers to the discussion about the scope of GIS.SE. I agree with @Andre Silva concerning the fact that: we should keep GIS.SE as it is and it would be nice to mention the main topics in ...
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Options when question is duplicate of one with no/inadequate/old answers?

I have a question that has already been asked (Understanding min and max values with Mosaic to New Raster?), but it does not yet have an answer. Is there a way to revive or draw attention to this ...
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Tweaking custom close reason for poorly framed code debugging/writing/improving questions?

In Shortest code to reproduce GIS programming problems I think we made good progress on getting a more useful set of custom close reasons for GIS SE. However, I think the current wording of our ...
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Shortest code to reproduce GIS programming problems

Sometimes we receive GIS programming questions which are difficult to answer because it lacks explanation about the problem and reproducible examples. When that happens, we could quickly provide ...
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Why links to other SE questions appear to have been removed when question migrated?

My question has just been migrated to GIS SE, but the links to some relevant questions (on SO) seem to have been removed automatically. Is this the common procedure when it comes to links (on all SE ...
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Syntax highlighting for openlayers-3 tag

I've just spend a bit of time tagging openlayers-3 Q's as 'javascript' in order to enable syntax highlighting. But, I've just realized that you can create language specification for tags: Automatic ...
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Tagging data questions on GIS Stack Exchange?

There has previously been some discussion here about: Are questions about obtaining geospatial data on topic? Tag synonym proposal - software and free related tags Which brings me to examine these ...
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What tags are needed for questions about domains?

At the moment we have two tags with domain in their name: domain with 46 questions and no tag wiki coded-value-domain with 39 questions and a tag wiki and there is no tag specifically for range ...
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Inappropriate use of Title Case in question stats (Asked / Viewed / Active)?

I know this is a detail, but this kind of stuff bothers me once I notice it. And I just noticed now that GIS SE makes some rather strange use of Title Case. When you are on a question page, you see ...
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Tags related to climate, with at least one synonym proposal

We currently have rainfall x15 and precipitation x7. We also have climate and solar-radiation. I don't currently see any others that would fall under the category of climate (such as wind), but feel ...
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Should openlayers-2 and openlayers be synonyms?

Most questions up till now used openlayers to refer to openlayers-2. With increasing interest in openlayers-3, we will see more questions on this topic. The two versions are so different that answers ...
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Tagging questions related to Linear Referencing, Dynamic Segmentation and Chainage?

We currently have the following tags (and their wiki entries) related to Linear Referencing, Dynamic Segmentation and Chainage, and there may be more (feel free to edit and add). Often several of ...
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Tag synonym proposal - reproject to projection-conversions

reproject with 6 questions and no Wiki reprojection is already a synonym of projection-conversions with 483 questions and a Wiki of "The process of translating a map or spatial data from one ...
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