A scanning electron micrograph from my thesis, an image downloaded from NASA, no need for georeferencing, and a simple heads up digitizing job that took about an hour I think.
@PolyGeo A user once asked for a list of offensive symbols/colors. On sites like StackOverflow questions like this are often closed with a reason such as "too broad", while your decision was that it should remain open. Is there a right level of leniency for GIS Stack Exchange to both encourage quality content while welcoming new questions from new users? Could you summarize your attitude towards questions like this one?
This Question is prompted by the List of GIS applications for Android Tablets Question on Main which received its 21st Answer today.
Such Shopping List questions are off topic at StackOverflow as per discussion at Why are "shopping list" questions bad? and Jeff Atwood's blog Q&A is Hard, Let’s G...
Above is a Q&A I initiated on Meta to discuss Shopping List questions last December which I thought I would link to here first as background.
When it comes to my current view on Shopping List questions, I look first for whether the asker of such a question has undertaken an amount of prior research which is commensurate with what they are looking for potential answerers to undertake or to have undertaken ... but Shopping List questions are always likely to have a big grey area in their definition so I am clearest in my personal policy at either end
For many organizations, such as local/county/state governments, providing public access to GIS data is a challenge.
Simply knowing what data is available, what it is, who owns and maintains it, and where to get it is probably the most immediate challenge. Therefore a GIS data inventory is a nece...
I'd like to know, is there any way to get a free list (database) in csv or something like it of all the addresses (regions, cities, streets, buildings...) for an arbitrary country?
UPDATE: What's unclear in my question?
I would not like to see us become Yahoo! Answers (answers.yahoo.com) for GIS but instead to attract quality questions and to have quality Q&As found by visitors to our site.
I'd like to know, is there any way to get a free list (database) in csv or something like it of all the addresses (regions, cities, streets, buildings...) for an arbitrary country?
UPDATE: What's unclear in my question?
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