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Any reason not to import tag information from the main StackExchange meta site?
I noticed that the review tag doesn't have any information attached to it. While I could spend time writing a description for it, I thought I might reuse the same text that the review tag has on the ...
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Why was this Question closed?
I saw this question:
When the Community edition of Open Geo suite is allowed?
which I felt was a very good fit to this site.
Unfortunately it was closed as off topic.
I am having trouble ...
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where did my GIS question go
I posted a question, got two comments on the meta site, now I can't find my question and its responses. Is there a problem with the meta site today and the "this post does not meet our quality ...
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How do you unsubscribe from a StackExchange site and delete your profile?
I am getting a flag that this post doesn't meet the site's quality standards, so I suspect that some key word like ArcMap is missing, so my question is "How do you unsubscribe from a StackExchange ...
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Why are some code samples occasionally not colored?
Occasionally when I post a question on StackExchange and I copy and paste a code sample, when I publish the post, the code sample does not appear to color parts of the code like syntax highlighting. ...
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Time Zone used for the “days visited” profile notation
Although I visit this site every day, sometimes it is in the morning, sometimes the afternoon and sometimes at night. I regularly get my "days visited" information getting reset because I have ...
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Is specialist/specification question about weather data on topic?
I have a specialist/specification question that related the geography but more like earth science or weather data namely whether darkness falls quicker in the spring / summer since it appears so where ...
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Do you feel like this video accurately reflects your experience with Esri products? [closed]
I know this is probably not the right place to post this, but it's pretty funny...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b04pKO_698&feature=youtu.be
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Are geo extraction questions on topic?
I've recently become interested in geo-extraction; I'm eventually going to work on a project where I'll want to extract street addresses from various text sources (almost exclusively segments of web ...
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Should FAQ include reference to Remote Sensing, Image Processing and/or Surveying?
There was a question raised two years ago which was in the vicinity of this one but it was focussed on the term geomatics.
I noticed two Remote Sensing questions today in quick succession:
How do I ...
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2013 Community Moderator Election Results
Geographic Information Systems' second moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the two new moderators are:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please ...
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Is this a reasonable way to use tags on ArcGIS questions?
I am keen to hear views on whether what I propose below as ArcGIS tag recommendations sounds reasonable?
I think the same logic could be applied equally well to QGIS and other products that have ...
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Should tags be removed because they refer to old software?
Today I saw three examples (below) of old questions edited for the reason "Removed arcgis-9.2 tag because it is a Retired version". In each example, the ArcGIS 9.2 tag was germane to the question; the ...
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2013 Moderator Election Q&A [closed]
In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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2013 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection [closed]
In connection with the moderator elections, we will be holding a Q&A with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic ...
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Suggestion: Make print tag a synonym of printing [duplicate]
There are 29 questions tagged print (with no tag wiki) and 72 tagged printing (with a tag wiki).
Should print tags redirect to printing?
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strange problem with numbered lists
I have always had so trouble getting lists to number but today had a problem with this answer
I created my numbered list and it was fine 1 -4.
then I added pictures between and it began renumbering ...
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GIS Dictionary/Glossary
There are lots of terms, abbreviations and commonly used phrases about GIS. Sometimes I don't decide which term or abbreviation i should use for explaning something.
Should we make a good glossary ...
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2013 Community Moderator Election [closed]
The 2013 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 ...
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Same question multiple sites
Since many applications of GIS are multi-disciplinary in nature, I was wondering whether it is correct to post the same question in multiple stackexchange sites.
For example, many times when dealing ...
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Standard practice to close (valid, but vague) questions abandoned by asker?
Should we move to close old, abandoned questions with not enough detail? asked about old questions that are probably abandoned. I note this question WMS-C with OSMDroid where the user has asked a ...
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Let's help Area51 proposals related to GIS!
This SE site is dedicated to GIS, but there are related topics which might not be completely in topic here and deserve their own sites. Let's help them to take off the ground!
Here are some of them:
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GIS Stack Exchange 2013 Moderator Election coming soon - April 2013 [closed]
PROCESS STARTS 15th April 2013
This a general (unofficial) notification that there is a GIS Stack Exchange 2013 Moderator Election coming up.
(The Stack Exchange Messaging tool was removed by the ...
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Why is this post marked “Post is related to a rapidly changing event”.?
I see that this question: QGIS Server limitations ? has a notice under it saying "Post is related to a rapidly changing event".
I have gone through the following two questions:
What does the ...
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Can we get YouTube video embedding enabled?
There are some great animated visualizations and general how-to videos linked to in various questions and answers on this site.
I noticed that on some other StackExchange sites (e.g. Gaming, Music) ...
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What's the best way to get information from a user before an answer is given?
The issue I am having trouble with is how to get information from a user before I can offer an answer.
The question(or statement) is: Unable to connect Postgis from QGIS 1.8.0
And it looks like the ...
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Are questions on how to find Requests for proposals in a specific area (country, continent, etc) appropriate?
I am curious, as I'd like to ask the following question: "Where to find GIS related RFPs online for Canada?"
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How to suggest tag synonyms?
As an example we have tags of arcpy-mapping and arcpy.mapping - the former being much more popular.
I would like to suggest the latter becomes a synonym, and although my current reputation bestows ...
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What to do about Help Vampires?
Personally I am growing somewhat weary of seeing the same questions being repeated over and over by certain users (sorry for picking on this one user, there are others I'm sure).
As is typical of ...
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What to do when a post appears in multiple places in the Review Queue?
I've seen the following behavior several times while going through the review queue.
A new user comes along and posts a short answer to an old question (usually a comment like I'm facing the same ...
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Are our answer and voting rates healthy?
I don't have any numbers to back this up, but I just have a feeling that some of our site's answer and voting rates may be slipping. It may just be a symptom of a maturing site, or perhaps an influx ...
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Can I use the GIS stackexchange logo on my website? [closed]
If so where can I download it and under what conditions?
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Thread for posts needing development work
I understand that GIS.SE is not about finding or promoting GIS consultancy, but occassionally you get a question from a user who's problem clearly exceeds their knowledge level in GIS or who is ...
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Question regarding the “Disciplined” badge and deleting my own answer
The "Disciplined" badge is earned when you delete your own post with a score of 3 or higher. When I hover over the "delete" link on one of my answers, it says "vote to remove this post". In order to ...
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Can we have “rate this answer” and depend on the answer (like one star to five star) [closed]
To increase the quality of answer we can rate the answer (like one star to five stars) similar to ESRI forums.
Any discussion/opinion is highly appreciated...
Thanks
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Syntax highlighting for vb.net tag
Can we get VB.NET syntax highlighting working for the vb.net tag?
I thought it was working previously, maybe something broke just recently?
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How could we encourage more non-software related questions?
I don't like the fact that lately most questions relate to some software specific issues. I mean sure, thats where people get stuck probably, i asked some of them myself. But they re not those kind of ...
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Why was the following question closed?
Out of curiosity, why was this question closed -- so I can be a better reviewer? Yes, the question seems like someones homework assignment and the title is a bit crude and it's a 101 question, but ...
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Should anonymous users be able to suggest edits?
I noticed that the "Community" user had suggested an edit to an existing, accepted, correct answer, that resulted in the answer no longer being completely correct.
Further investigation shows that ...
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Is the Acceptance Rate of Users still displayed anywhere?
I cannot remember seeing the Acceptance Rate of any Users displayed recently - has that function been disabled?
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Should we close Questions as duplicates of old, unanswered Questions?
While I was going through the close review queue today, I saw that this question
has been marked as a duplicate of this question from two months ago.
The old question does not have an accepted ...
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What to do about troll users?
http://gis.stackexchange.com/users/9946/kittensatplay
Apparently this user was banned for a month and is now back and trolling anyone who tries to help them. They will delete their questions after a ...
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Q/A of a deleted user showed up in the review queue
I was clearing the review queue (first answers) and besides it being larger than usual, I soon noticed about half of it was related to questions or answers of a (newly?) deleted user — user13395.
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Should GPS and Global Positioning tags be synonymous? [closed]
Should gps and global-positioning tags be synonymous?
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What should questions about ArcGIS 10.1 Python Add-Ins be tagged with?
So we have the tags add-in (78 questions) and python-addin (8 questions). Some ArcGIS 10.1 Python add-in questions are marked with one or the other, and a few are marked with both.
Should ...
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When Question is tagged arcgis10 should we assume arcgis-10.0 or arcgis-10.1 or …?
I would like to revisit an old Question from the early days of Stack Exchange GIS from a slightly different slant.
When ArcGIS 10.0 was released there was little need to be precise and tag using ...
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Why is a User's Reputation Not Shown in Community Wikis?
I was just wondering why a user's reputation and badges aren't shown when a question becomes a community wiki. Is it for space-saving? Or is there another reason?
I understand that wiki's do not ...
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“Obsolete comment” flag on moved comment declined
I flagged a comment as "obsolete" in order for it to be removed (it no longer adds any value). That comment flag was declined, however.
The flagged comment was originally added to an answer to ...
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Can this question be reopened? [closed]
This quesiton was closed as "not a real question". I do not know if it was closed with it getting five close votes.It is difficult to understand why it is not a real question. Shouldn't the question ...
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Should the license, legal and copyright tags be made synonyms of each other?
Seems to me it would help with being able to locate general "legal"-type questions if these tags were to be synonyms. This was prompted by my perceived need to add these tags to this recent question: ...
