The tags tag has no wiki summary.
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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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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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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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Should GPS and Global Positioning tags be synonymous? [closed]
Should gps and global-positioning tags be synonymous?
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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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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: ...
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Should old questions be updated to reflect details of later questions that were closed as duplicate?
Today, How to export attribute tables to Excel? was closed as a duplicate of How do I export an attribute table in ArcGIS version 9.3.1 to Excel?. Although the answers point to the same solutions, the ...
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Tag for featureLayer
I am not sure if this is the right place but I wanted to suggest, creation of a new tag called featureLayer. featureLayer is a new (ok not so new) component added to the arcgis javascript api. Around ...
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difference between erdas and erdas imagine
I was just posting a question on erdas and as I was tagging it I saw erdas and erdas imagine. I thought they both were same. Is there a difference?
Pardon my ignorance.
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What's a good tag for ocean oriented GIS?
I've seen several questions mentioning seabed.
And others mentioning seafloor.
And more about ocean bathymetry.
Is there some tag that could tie all these together?
Update
I just went in and ...
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Carto tag should be merged into Cartography
http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/carto
there is only 1 carto question. It should be cartography I think.
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How do “Tag synonyms” get accepted?
I have added a number of "Tag Synonyms" and there is another that to me make a lot of sense to either be merged with another tag, or at least redirected. They have been marked as "pending" for 3 ...
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synonyms about service: service, web-services, map-service, amazon-web-services?
the tags page shows these when filtered for service
service × 2
web-services × 34
mapservice × 9
amazon-web-services x 1
Amazon could be deleted as it's used only once, and found easily in a search.
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Should we have icons in Tags like SO?
I spotted on SO that some of the tags have company icons embedded within them:
Should we not have similar ones for Esri, Mapinfo, Mapserver, etc?
If so:
- would we need permission from the ...
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Shouldn't there be a geotoolkit tag?
Subject says it all, although I have to make a long story here to meet silly "quality" standards.
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Should [umn-mapserver] and [mapserver] be synonyms?
Most (UMN) Mapserver questions are currently tagged [mapserver]. Should we specify the two tags to be synonyms?
If not, should we re-tag all (UMN) Mapserver specific questions to [umn-mapserver]?
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Merge Hydrography and Hydrology into Hydro
I never really understood what separates Hydrology from Hydrography (maybe same as what separates geology from geography?)
Anyway, I think others have dealt with the issue by just calling both of ...
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Alias osm tag to openstreetmap
Can we get the osm and openstreetmap tags merged as aliases one direction or the other? They refer to the same thing but seem to have separate followings. The OSM community typically uses just "osm" ...
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Visualization tag (and are more tags always better)?
Recently I added the tag 'visualisation' to this question on displaying multiple layers in one map. I also think it should be added to this recent question about cartograms.
I figured I would ask the ...
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Should we have a tag for lines?
It has been asked several times on the site how to make lines from to-from different point coordinates. Should we include a tag for line or something else specific? We have a tag for linestring, would ...
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Should we have some sort of GeoTag?
Suppose someone is looking for questions relating to a particular location or region (e.g. Texas).
Since this is a site devoted to GIS, maybe should support spatial queries. I'm not sure what sort ...
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Tag Wiki Editor Qualifications
Why does the Tag Wiki for the GIS StackExchange require users to have a reputation of 1500 in order to make edits? There are many tags that have no wiki entries, and lowering the reputation threshold ...
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Should we treat spatial-database and geodatabase as synonyms?
Should we treat the two tags spatial-database and geodatabase as synonyms?
Seems like the guys on Wikipedia haven't come to a conclusion on this topic either: see Geodatabase on en.wp.
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Is there any way to filter the questions based on interesting tags?
If I click on a tag I get all questions marked with that tag. But is there any way to filter the questions on the tags that I've choosen as interesting?
I'm adding this as a feature request, it ...
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Should we allow the tag [esri] for questions about specific ESRI packages?
Should we allow the esri tag for questions not about the company, but rather about its products? Currently it is being used to tag questions related to ESRI products.
The tags on questions tagged ...
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How should tags relating to version numbers be tagged?
Maybe it is because gis.stackexchange.com is only a day old, but the software/database/system tags don't include version numbers. Sometimes the version doesn't matter, but for some questions, it will ...
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No questions are listed when clicking on a tag
When I click on a tag on the tag page, I would like to see the questions that contains that tag, as on StackOverflow. But on the GIS site, no questions are listed.
Why? What is the problem?
