[OSGeo-Discuss] StackOverflow like GIS website

[George Silva]

Hello Milo,

I'm not offended in any way. My experience with SO is that there are way too
few questions related to GIS in that website. Questions about projections,
webmapping, gis programming are perhaps way too specific for the use of SO
as a website to the GIS community.

If you check that website you will be able to see what kind of question we
are planning to have and vote them as on-topic or off-topic.

But thank you for your opinion :P.

George

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 9:39 AM, miblon <moblin at dogodigi.net> wrote:

> I am a user at stackoverflow too. And it is my personal opinion that I am
> not interested in separating GIS from the "rest" of the topics on their
> site, I have recieved great result asking programming questions,
> postgis/postgres related questions and in return I often answer GIS related
> questions. It is especially the fact that everything is in a single place
> that makes me a fan of stackoverflow.
>
> The stackoverflow search options are excelent. Thanks to tags for gis,
> postgis, openlayers and others; finding questions or answers in my fields of
> interest is easy.
>
> It would in my opinion, be better to move us "GIS folks" into the crowd of
> "regular" programmers and IT specialists. We might learn from them and they
> from us.
>
> Integrate, don't seperate is my personal advice. Please don't feel
> offended, it is just the way I look at this.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Milo van der Linden
>
> George Silva wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the complement Alexis. Very important information.
>>
>> George
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 6:15 AM, Alexis Guéganno <a9emen at gmail.com<mailto:
>> a9emen at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>    On 1 June 2010 23:45, George Silva <georger.silva at gmail.com
>>    <mailto:georger.silva at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>    > The guys at StackOverflow are promoting some new Q&A websites in
>>    the molds
>>    > of StackOverflow, ServerFault, etc.
>>    >
>>    >
>>
>> http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/1425/geographic-information-systems?referrer=u45zxtCru4U%3d
>>    >
>>    > There is a propose for a GIS website like it, which I created -
>>    containing
>>    > aspects of all areas of GIS (database, programming, cartography,
>>    map design,
>>    > geography, etc).
>>    >
>>    > Check it out. The proposition needs to be accepted by a large
>>    number of
>>    > users to move on, so if you guys feel that should exist, follow the
>>    > proposal.
>>    >
>>    > Thanks
>>    >
>>    > --
>>    > George R. C. Silva
>>    >
>>    > Desenvolvimento em GIS
>>    > http://blog.geoprocessamento.net
>>
>>    Hi !
>>
>>    I just want to add something : if you have some time after
>>    subscription, feel free to vote for the question if you think they are
>>    on-topic or off-topic. We need users AND clearly identified on-topic
>>    and off-topic questions.
>>
>>    I think the idea is great. Thanks for it, George :-) Sites promoted by
>>    stack exchange are nice, and are a good place to share infos. I've
>>    been saved sometimes by stack overflow and server fault ^_^
>>
>>    Greetings,
>>
>>    Agemen.
>>
>>
>>    --
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>>    sont tous de la même façon.
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>> George R. C. Silva
>>
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George R. C. Silva

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