Questions tagged [discussion]
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Maintaining Community Value While Community Engagement Continues to Drop
Although I am a long-time consumer of GIS SE content, I am still a relatively recent contributor of content (approaching 4 years). In the four years since I started contributing, especially the last ...
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2024: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year. As most of ...
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2024 Community Moderator Election Results
Moderator election #5 on Geographic Information Systems has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderators are: They will be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them ...
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Segmentize vs Densify
Recently an edit to the tag segmentize got approved: An operation which consist of adding vertices to line segments based on maximum segment length. And densify was declared as a synonym of it. I ...
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Allowing previously blocked users to participate in moderator elections
Do you consider it possible for a user who was previously banned for violating community rules for a long period of time to participate in the moderator elections? In particular, the user was banned ...
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2024 Community Moderator Election
The 2024 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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2024 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection
The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here. Geographic Information Systems Stack Exchange is scheduled for an ...
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When is a question considered a bug report?
I recently posted a question about Google Earth Engine API on how to compute the bounds of a projection (How to get the bounds of a projection in GEE). It's something I can do with other tools that I ...
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Adding answer to closed question
I would like to post an answer to a closed question of mine which is Why isn't there an official docker image for QGIS server, i.e. released by QGIS.org. How could I proceed?
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Asking same question with different technologies and/or environments
Based on the same idea about time related questions as described in Asking same question for newer version, I'm wondering if it is OK or not to ask the same question with, as a target, a different ...
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2023: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year. As most of you here might be ...
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Why is there nothing about having to write your questions/answers in English in the "Tour" or "Help Center"
I've noticed while commenting on questions/answers asking them to rewrite their question/answer in English that there is nothing to link toward for them to check out the "rule" in the Tour ...
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When answering questions leads to bad cartographic design
Periodically a question is posted of the form "How do I get effect X in software Y" for which the desired effect would generally be considered bad cartographic design. On rare occasions ...
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Sharing TIFFs when asking a question [duplicate]
I am not sure the best way to share an example TIFF for GIS StackExchange. If I write example code in a question, I would like to link to an example TIFF, but not sure the best way to do it. Any ideas ...
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Competition: best (most informative, beautiful etc.) screenshots on GIS SE
Just an idea about how to enhance the awareness for the quality of questions and answers. In special, I think about screenshots. A good screenshot/image is often already half of a good question or ...
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