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Migrating questions about obtaining open spatial data from GIS to Open Data?

I think it's generally a bad idea to move GIS data related question to non-GIS related SE website as they are less specific, and as someone else pointed out, the GIS related question might well be dro …
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Improving use of tags [postgis] and [postgresql]?

postgis and postgresql are two different things clearly not synonymous to each other. Therefore, making them synonyms? seems to be wrong logically. The third option: creating a composite ta …
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Using tags [arcmap] and [arcgis-desktop]?

In my opinion, GIS.SE should keep the arcgis-desktop tag because it is public facing. For example, when suggesting the user to be more specific and add tags about the GIS software being used, it is …
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Should GIS.SE be more "lenient" at the beginning stages than the SO main site?

But I just want to raise the issue for discussion. …
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Why is this "Not an answer" flag disputed?

I was doing a review recently on an answer. I got the impression that the answer basically is along the lines of, I am working [on somethings] ..., now I am trying to edit data and it [ArcSDE] …
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What to do with not-a-question questions?

While doing a review, I saw this "first question" Creating simple citygml 3D models based on 2D shapefiles (alkis) shp2gml using Python?. To my surprise, the OP posted a first question with the sole p …
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How many Twitter and Bootstrap tags do we need?

There has been a lot of discussion on SO of migration issues from Bootstrap 2 to Bootstrap 3. …
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Entering mathematical formulas in GIS SE? [duplicate]

I was wondering if it is possible to enter mathematical formulas in GIS SE. I was trying to enter formulas about map projections and found it necessary. I looked around, and from this meta question: …
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Merging [pyqgis] and [pyqgis-3] tags

I would argue that pyqgis-3 should not be a synonym of pyqgis because with QGIS 3, pyqgis uses python3 and Qt5 (as compared to Python2 and Qt4). The difference is significant, and there are many brea …
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Should questions asking for product, service, data and learning (course, book, website) reco...

As I have argued, my sense is that we should differentiate GIS.SE from SuperUser or StackOverflow in terms of close policies. A lot of the close policies in SU and SO are motivated by the difficulty …
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When and how should "We are not a GIS Software Support Site" be invoked?

My perception of this is that We are not a GIS Software Support Site is not absolute. As @Evil Genius pointed out, open source projects such as QGIS may not have an official support, and may use the …
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Why is " Very Low Quality" on this question declined?

I just noticed that my flag for low quality question to this answer to GDAL & Python 3 environment variable is declined, and reviewed it as prompted. But why is it declined? There is another review …
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Why is link only answer flag declined?

I came across this link only answer in review queue, and marked it as VLQ. It now has downvotes and similar comments that it's link-only. However, it is declined with the following response: declined …
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Why is this VLQ review for a link-only answer declined?

I was reviewing this link-only answer, and marked it as very low quality because I think that is how link-only answers are handled. But a moderator stepped in and declined it with the following commen …
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Which VLQ flags require moderator intervention?

This answer to Exporting geodata from QGIS to File Geodatabase is another declined review instance that gives me the impression that I am bothering the moderators. Regardless of the content, the decli …
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