[OSGeo-Discuss] StackOverflow like GIS website
miblon
moblin at dogodigi.net
Wed Jun 2 11:17:52 PDT 2010
Hello George,
I completely agree that there aren't a lot of questions that are GIS
related on SO, but most come from people not familiar with GIS at all
entering either from a developer (google maps api, openlayers) or a dba
perspective. And these roles are interesting; Often they are the guys
that are asked by management to "put a map in their app" and often they
strand on geometry or projection related topics. I believe that is where
we fit in. We help them out, point them to the fact that there ARE
people specialized in GI and maybe one thing will lead to another: The
managers grow in understanding that Geo IT is a profession too...
Especially now, with the crisis, IT managers are looking at programmers
being able to work in the whole spectrum of options. I believe it is our
task to show them that using specialists might speed up development.
That is why I always advice customers to hire me for the map and the
geodata, and designers for the website look and feel. I cannot (and will
not) design websites, and a designer shouldn't try to master maps,
he/she should master design!
GIS related topics pop up more and more thanks to openlayers and google
maps. And it offers opportunities. SO is an environment to spot these
opportunities whereas a GIS specific SO would lead to segregation,
keeping us away from the rest of the world.
I would strongly opt to put effort in gettting GIS related topics "on
the map" on SO instead of copying SO for a limited audience. It would
surely show our presence to the people out there.
George Silva wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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>
> <mailto: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>
> <mailto: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.
>
>
> --
> Les objets quantiques sont complètement dingues, mais au
> moins ils le
> sont tous de la même façon.
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