Stephen Lead

@PolyGeo bummer - thanks anyway!

when working with GeoServer it's common to have very long URLs in the address bar. Using Chrome or Firefox, is there a way to wrap the long URL so that the whole thing is visible at once?

It would be interesting to see a GIS version of this analysis: stackoverflow.blog/2017/08/01/…

@PolyGeo I'm looking for a full installation of GeoServer. I also reached out on Twitter and someone pointed me to demo.geo-solutions.it/geoserver/web so I'm good for now, thanks

I'm trying to find a publicly-accessible GeoServer to help debug a problem I'm encountering. demo.opengeo.org/geoserver/web is currently down - are there any other publicly-accessible GeoServer sites I can use to test this?

@HasanMustafa thanks for the tip, I'll check it out

@PolyGeo great idea. I don't have time for this now but I'll add it to my list of things to do

Are there any resources to help find GIS volunteer roles, like working with a charity in a developing country? Is this a valid question to ask on GIS.SE? It would make sense as a community wiki if so.

Esri killed off many years' worth of user-generated content when they added a redirect to the ArcScripts site, without porting across the old content. If you agree this is a really bad idea, please chime in at geonet.esri.com/thread/182094-please-restore-arcscripts

@mattwilkie You could ask your host - they may be on an unlimited plan and not care about 20Gb?

Never mind, Nominatim is back up again for me now

Is it just me, or is the Nominatim geocoder down? eg nominatim.openstreetmap.org/… returns an error message. But wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Platform_Status says that it's up. Any ideas?

@mattwilkie this is great advice Matt. I'm one of the exhausted and brow-beaten AML and Avenue developers BTW ;)

@whuber thanks - it's a good technique to know. The answer on SO worked perfectly using a similar method: stackoverflow.com/a/35394680/906814

I posted a question on Stack Overflow which might be of interest to GIS people too: stackoverflow.com/questions/35388519/…

I'm positive I saw an answer on GIS-SE showing how to increase the 1000-feature limit when querying features via ArcGIS Online's REST API, but I can't find it now. Any ideas?

Here's an interesting article on how Pixar used GIS techniques in their upcoming movie, including making landscapes from real USGS datasets. io9.com/…

@PolyGeo I submitted it to Esri Oz support - now it's their problem ;)

It could just be a bad virus definition on the part of AVG antivirus: support.avg.com/answers?id=906b0000000TjgxAAC

I'm not sure if this is off-topic or not? My virus scanner just flagged an ArcGIS Desktop file as a potential threat - IDP Alexa. Worth posting as a question, sending to Esri, ignoring or deleting? Thanks

@NicolasRaoul it won't directly help, but this relevant XKCD cartoon might give a laugh: xkcd.com/1425

@DevdattaTengshe I started reading that and quickly got out of my depth. I did note someone saying that the article's author had an undisclosed interest in a company which coincidentally solves some of those problems....

@PolyGeo do your worst, grumpy Meta SE people meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/287500/…

@PolyGeo Thanks. I wonder if that's something we could enable on GIS SE too. It's nice that when you visit stackoverflow.com there are jobs listed on the homepage. You'd get more target responses to GIS positions if GIS-specific jobs were listed here

There's an interesting article in the NY Times about the visualisation they did for the Yosemite climb - touches on 3D, lidar and photography. nytimes.com/times-insider/2015/01/20/… nytimes.com/interactive/2015/01/09/sports/…

Turf is GIS for web maps. It’s a fast, compact, and open-source JavaScript library that implements the most common geospatial operations: buffering, contouring, triangular irregular networks (TINs), and more. Turf speaks GeoJSON natively, easily connects to Leaflet, and is now available as a Mapbox.js plugin on our cloud platform. We’re also working to integrate Turf into our offline products and next-generation map rendering tools.

Interesting browser-based GIS analysis on the client and server: mapbox.com/blog/turf-gis-for-web-maps

@mattwilkie how did you get on the beta program - is it open for others to apply?

"Satellite imaging has revolutionized our knowledge of the Earth, with detailed images of nearly every street corner readily available online. But Planet Labs' Will Marshall says we can do better and go faster — by getting smaller. He introduces his tiny satellites — no bigger than 10 by 10 by 30 centimeters — that, when launched in a cluster, provide high-res images of the entire planet, updated daily."

Here's an inspiring TED talk about an exciting new global imagery dataset which I'm sure we'll all be keen to play with: ted.com/talks/…

@MatteoMandrile If you post your question, chances are that someone will be able to help

Funny GIS reference on XKCD today

We're seeing intermittent problems with Feature Services hosted on ArcGIS Online. Esri support said it may be due to a Windows Azure problem at their end. Is anyone else seeing this?

@whuber I love that in 2014 there are mechanisms to capture when that happens - and good designers who can present it nicely

This is a pretty cool map: spotify.com/au/arts/serendipity "Every second, a few people hit "play" on the same track at the same time."

"Giant hornets kill 42 people in China!" twitter.com/mgerrydoyle/status/497303447536820227

@DevdattaTengshe funnily enough I prefer the look of the old hillshades - it's nice to see more details, but the aesthetics are lost IMO. Art vs Science....

In general usage, people tend to say "lat-long", but the ArcGIS and OpenLayers APIs use lon, lat (developers.arcgis.com/javascript/jsapi/map-amd.html#map1). Google Maps uses lat, lon as in google.maps.LatLng (developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/…)

I just posted on the Esri discussion forum for the first time in about a year. Wow - it's so slow, bloated and difficult to use. The forum, I mean... :)

Check out this stunning map of global weather: earth.nullschool.net

Not strictly mapping-related, but here are some beautiful, minimalist infographics: accurat.it/visualdata

@mattwilkie after you've done that, do one in the chicken projection twitter.com/Dragons8mycat/status/245511053381890048

poop deck

@om_henners that's awesome

@PolyGeo surely this means you're overqualified for the role....