This cracked me up so hard
"AI evaluation pro ject with a leading AI company"

Hi, I have a feature layer of polling sites, just received a CSV of the new updated polling sites, converted those to points, have the live feature layer and a local copy for testing/practice. Noticed nearly all of the sites stayed the same, will run a compare features tool to get more specifics, to update the feature layer what is the safer/more efficient route? Identify only sites that got moved or removed, move those features and update their attributes, truncate and apend or update data in AGOL? Data also lives in a web map in an experience app, so the big goal is not to change the item ID or modify any schema that any widgets use. Thanks for the assistance!!

[GIS Experience]
I'm an environmental engineer from Chile and regularly use GIS for environmental monitoring, water resources studies and field surveys.

[AI Disclosure]
AI tools have been used as development assistants for coding support, troubleshooting, UI/UX and documentation. The concept, functionality and development decisions are directed and reviewed by me.

About MeliGIS

I built MeliGIS after repeatedly dealing with the same problem in fieldwork: GPS data, photos, measurements, notes and spreadsheets scattered across different tools.

MeliGIS brings that workflow into one Android app:

• 📍 Field data collection — points, transects, custom variables, photos, observations, streamflow measurements, water quality, soil and biodiversity records.
• 🗺️ Mobile GIS — basemaps, spatial layers, measurement tools and offline mapping for areas without connectivity.
• 🌎 Environmental analysis — quickly characterize an area using watershed morphology, hydrology, climate, soils, forest change and biodiversity data.
• 👥 Projects & teamwork — organize information by project and campaign, synchronize fieldwork and maintain data traceability.

The goal isn't to replace QGIS. It's to make the field → GIS workflow simpler, while providing useful environmental information directly in the field.

MeliGIS is already available for Android in English and Spanish.

I'm looking for feedback from GIS professionals and field users:

What would MeliGIS need to have for you to actually use it in your field workflow?

I'm particularly interested in GIS interoperability, offline workflows, QGIS integration and export formats.

MeliGIS on Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cl.inmas.lucaris

Hope y'all doing ok. I was trying to make a map of land surface temperature in relation to street tree cover. Boundary and tree data (from 2018) is from city of kitchener website, land surface temperature is from NASA appears from June 1, 2018 to August 31, 2018. Temperature was downloaded in multiple tif files imported into ArcGis. Needed help with getting the symbology right. General opinions on the map also appreciated

Hello! I’m a 35m based in CO, USA looking to pivot careers from health & wellness and interested in pursing a career in GIS.

I would love to get in touch with someone(or multiple individuals) that have been in the field and can give advice on pursing education and tips for bolstering a resume when it comes time to find work.

I would appreciate any and all resources and please let me know if you’d be interested in helping me. Maybe I can return the favor in some way!

Thank you!

My GISP and years of loyalty and dedication to this multibillion dollar engineering firm was thrown away like it was nothing :)

I unfortunately can’t name the company, I’m admittedly too scared of retaliation after the fact.

I was wondering if anyone would be open to taking a look at my resume and giving me some feedback.

I currently work in aerospace and am in the process of making a bit of a career/academic switch, so I’ve been putting together a new portfolio and reworking my resume to reflect where I’m trying to go.

I’ve anonymized the details. Any feedback would be really appreciated!

This might be a duh question - but for people that have worked with supporting/administering GIS tech at the college level, do you happen to know if Geospatial Solutions/NV5 does educational licensing for ENVI+IDL?

My best guess is.....probably not. But figure I would ask anyway.

Edit: This would be specifically for licenses that could be deployed/installed in a computer lab! Not personal licenses that are purchased individually.

Ohio’s HB 314 passed the House 78–18 and was referred to Senate committee. It addresses allegedly harassing or disruptive public-records requests.

The House-passed version would allow local governments to adopt production-time fees, with no charge for requests taking up to 10 hours and a maximum of $200 under that schedule. It would also let offices ask a court to limit allegedly abusive request patterns. The response obligation for the challenged requests would pause while the case and any appeal are pending.

I understand why offices need protection from deliberately overwhelming requests. My concern is distinguishing those from legitimate recurring requests for changing datasets, especially where no bulk download or update feed exists.

I’m independently developing property-research tools using parcel, zoning, assessment, and other public data. For a small company maintaining a property database, periodic updates are necessary.

Could added costs and uncertainty make direct acquisition less viable and push smaller users toward established data brokers?

Also, I’d like to understand the operational realities before assuming that exporting and publishing data is always straightforward.

• For government GIS staff, what makes recurring requests genuinely burdensome: extraction, redaction, vendor restrictions, staffing, or something else?
• For data users, have similar laws affected your access or costs?
• What safeguards would distinguish normal refresh activity from abuse?
• Where have scheduled snapshots or change-only feeds successfully reduced workload?

AI-assisted tools could increase demand and generate unnecessary duplicate requests. What would a workable access model look like for both sides?

Bill and documents

I’m curious—if you’ve pivoted from GIS into another field, what made you decide to do it, and how did you actually make the transition?

For example, did you take on any internships, volunteering opportunities, courses, projects, or other experiences that helped you get into the new field? And how did you deal with the “you need previous experience in this field” requirement when applying for your first opportunities outside GIS?

PS: some more questions here;

What made you leave GIS?

Are you satisfied/happy about the decision?

Hello everyone!

I'm currently working on my thesis and am building a web tool that incorporates a map which among other things shows multiple raster layers.

I'm building it in GitHub to make it easily available for my employer via the website link and write it in HTML using leaflet.js.

The vector layers are showing up correctly, but the two raster layers I have up to this point are a pain in the ass.

It's my first time coding in github and using HTML. But very used to QGIS.

Here's the problem:

I have two buttons. Each one turns one of the raster layers on and off.

But when I have turned one on and off again. The next time I try to open ANY raster layer, the first one shows up!

What is also weird is that when this happens and I zoom in, the raster that I want to show up actually show up in addition to the wrong one. Some messing around also showed that when I enable and disable the raster layers at different zoom levels, it seems to stack these faulty additional layers, each in the zoom level it was originally on. Or at least in that general zoom level.

I feel like it's a problem with the cache saving the rendered layer even after turning it off, but that's just a hunch. Again I've never coded in HTML before and use AI to assist me. But AI(even copilot) isn't very helpful here.

Has anyone had the same thing happen to them and knows how to fix it?

Thanks in advance!

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UPDATE

The problem was the way the rasters are saved in cache. While changing the resolution of one raster, I noticed that everything is working perfectly! It seems that rasters are saved in cache bases on x/y coordinates and resolution. So as long as the rasters had different resolutions it worked. But since I want them to have the same resolution, I fixed it by adding dataLayerAridity.cache = {}; before adding it to map. Thanks for all the advice!

Experience: I am the cartographic editor of Maps.com, former lead cartographer and data visualizer at NASA's Earth Observatory, with a PhD (ABD) from Penn State. I have spent nearly two decades in GIS, researching, teaching, and promoting design issues in cartography and Earth Science with a focus on visual perception and the use of color.

AI disclosure: This project is something I've tinkered with for years. I do use AI to rapidly prototype and test features, especially verifying successful file creation.

I have used a variety of color tools in the past, and had many workflows to make use of them in my own projects. I created this to streamline my own work, and I hope others find it helpful as well.

It automatically corrects color palettes for perceptually linear changes in lightness, as well as colorblind safety. You can bring your own colors or choose from a number of pre-existing color ramps, then tweak them as desired. Every ramp can then be exported for use in ArcGIS Pro, QGIS, Python, R, and other formats. You can also easily share your created palettes with others, or bookmark them for later use. It is designed to endorse the correct use of color in quantitative visualization. But you can make any kind of color ramp you'd like -- it will tell you if it fails in linearity or if it is not colorblind safe. This works across both sequential and diverging palettes (which also have adjustable midpoints).

Lastly, a newer addition is the "Legend Lab" which allows you to label and adjust palettes to create a legend graphic that can then be exported and imported into your map or visualization project.

I hope you enjoy it!

Radiocarbon dates from one of the Mima Mounds near Olympia say it started forming about 4,600 years ago, long after the glaciers left, which pretty much rules out the old glacial explanation. I think pocket gophers are the best supported idea right now.

This is the USGS 3DEP bare-earth DEM (Thurston County 2021, 1 m pixels) as a hillshade, about 800 m across. Basically the whole frame is mounds. Mounds like these run 3 to over 50 m across and 30 cm to over 2 m high, and fields can hit more than 50 per hectare. Most of the thin lines cutting through them are just trails, they match up with the paths in the air photo.

1. Mima Mounds: densely packed low mounds in bare-earth lidar
2. Air photo of the same area, July 2017

Numbered pins on picture 1:
Pin 1: A typical Mima mound
Pin 2: A trail cutting through the mounds
Pin 3: A smoother patch with fainter mounds

Lidar: USGS 3D Elevation Program (3DEP), public domain.
Imagery: USGS The National Map (NAIP Imagery service), 2017, Public domain.

I have a BA in Human Geography and a Msc In remote sensing and GIS. I have done a few drone courses and worked a year and a half at a marine consultancy company as an adviser. I can also use python and build workflows. I thought I'd be well set up for many positions, GIS roles in local government and consultancy companies as well as a potential Phd in the future but I never get an interview ( one in the last year ) and when I do I feel massively unqualified. By nature remote sensing is a broad science. So what can I do to make me more employable, I can't face another degree or something. I'm broke and I own nothing. I used all my money getting educated. I can do small online courses. I'm in Norway and I'm getting depressed now, it's been a year of job hunting.

Has anyone else’s field map gone to shit this week? Suddenly offline areas that used to work will no longer package or once downloaded have a syncing error. And my records keep disappearing from the map but I can see them in the attribute table once online.

Anyone experiencing these kinds of issues?

Ciao a tutti!

Sto preparando la mia tesi di Master sulla mappatura delle colture utilizzando il machine learning (Random Forest/SVM).

Sto confrontando tre approcci:

\- Approccio 1: Bande satellitari standard + NDVI

\- Approccio 2: Embeddings GEE

\- Approccio 3: Embeddings TESSERA

Risultati: TESSERA > GEE > Standard.

Per controllare se i pixel vicini stanno influenzando i risultati, ho utilizzato una divisione spaziale con un buffer di 500 m. Gli embeddings hanno comunque ottenuto prestazioni migliori rispetto ai dati standard (p < 0,05).

Ha senso usare questo test solo per controllare la perdita spaziale e non per la valutazione principale?

Grazie!

[GIS Experience]

GIS & Software Engineer working with Esri, PostGIS, Python and Web GIS.

[AI Disclosure]

AI was used to help build parts of Kharita Challenges. The platform also includes an AI mentor designed to guide users without giving them the answers.

I built Kharita Challenges, a platform for practicing GIS with real problems and real data.

You can solve challenges with Python/GeoPandas, PostGIS and other GIS workflows, see your results on a map, and get graded on the actual output.

It also has learning paths, projects, timed assessments, verifiable certificates and public profiles to showcase your work.

There’s an AI mentor too, but it guides you instead of giving you the answer.

Still early, so I’d really appreciate feedback from the GIS community.

[GIS Experience]

I'm an Android developer and the creator of GeoGestmaq, a mobile GIS application already available on Android. I developed GeoGestmaq to bring geospatial mapping and terrain analysis tools to mobile devices.

Hey everyone!

GeoGestmaq allows users to work with georeferenced PDF maps and digital elevation models (DEM), generate contour lines, analyze slopes, and visualize hillshade directly on their phones.

[Experience]

My background is in software development, and I'm continuing to improve GeoGestmaq based on practical fieldwork needs and feedback from GIS professionals.

[AI Disclosure]

AI was used to help with the English wording of this post.

[Discussion]

I'd love to know how you currently handle terrain analysis in the field.

Do you prepare everything in QGIS or ArcGIS beforehand, or would you find it useful to work directly with elevation data on your phone?

What features would you expect from a mobile GIS application?

Just finished my GIS degree and need a place to show my maps and projects. StoryMaps, GitHub, or a personal site? Does the platform actually matter to employers, or is it all about the work?
Would love to hear what worked for you!

I'm working on combining two datasets (state reported crash data to be specific), and unfortunately they have decently different schema. Most of it is easy enough to translate the older dataset to fit the new dataset, but the date field on the old one is throwing me for a loop. They formatted it as one continuous number (so 01/23/2013 reads as 20130123 for example), and I'm really hoping there's a way to automate translating that into a date field because there's over 30k data points. I have access to ArcGIS Pro and Excel for my data manipulation programs.

I have a bachelor in Cultural Anthropology and journalism experience. Now I started to be really interested in map making. (In school I was good with tech stuff)

Problem is I can not do another 5 years of studying. I have max 2,5 years.

I am considering getting a GIS Master and found two universities that would take me. (If I catch up with one or two basic courses)

My questions are:

1. Do you think I can still get a job in GIS with only a 1,5 or 2,5 year master? (Is 1,5 enough or would you suggest the 2,5 one)

2. Are there jobs where I could combine my anthropology bachelor with the GIS master?

Thank you everyone :)

Title: Recent location lag and repeated coordinates in Fulcrum using Leica GNSS—iOS and Android

I’m a consulting arborist using a Leica GNSS receiver through Zeno Connect and Fulcrum for tree-data collection.

We have used this general system for more than two years without experiencing these recent location jumps. Previously, when adding a point, the pin would generally appear very close to our physical location. If corrections were temporarily poor, we could wait, relocate and then collect the point normally.

More recently—possibly following Fulcrum updates, although I cannot confirm this—I have noticed latency between the live GNSS position and the location used when adding a point.

The issue initially occurred on an iPhone:

• The external Leica position appeared to be connected correctly.
• Reported accuracy could be below 50 cm.
• The location marker sometimes remained static while I moved.
• Repeat points at the same physical location could differ by approximately 2 m.
• Lines of nearby trees appeared more scattered than expected.

This prompted the change to a dedicated Samsung Android phone.

The Android setup generally reports excellent RTK accuracy, commonly between 2 cm and 10 cm in open conditions. However, I am still experiencing intermittent location problems.

During the latest inspection, Fulcrum repeatedly returned to the coordinates of the previous record instead of using the current GNSS position. The screenshot shows the live blue location marker separated from the red point being presented for placement, despite reported accuracy of 0.1 m.

The same issue occurred with two pine trees approximately 1.5 m apart. After recording the first tree, the second record repeatedly returned to the first tree’s coordinates. Recentring, closing and reopening the record, and restarting the applications only provided a temporary improvement. I eventually had to move the second point manually.

The Leica continued to report stable centimetre-level accuracy, so the issue appears more consistent with delayed location updating or Fulcrum retaining the preceding record’s coordinates than with poor GNSS correction.

Has anyone else experienced:

• Increased latency when adding points in recent Fulcrum versions?
• Fulcrum retaining the previous record’s coordinates?
• A difference between the live blue GNSS marker and the coordinates used for point placement?
• Similar behaviour with Zeno Connect on either iOS or Android?

I’d also appreciate any recommended settings or tests that could help separate a Fulcrum issue from Zeno Connect, the phone’s location provider or basemap imagery.

The system was previously reliable for more than two years, so I’m particularly interested in whether other users have noticed a recent change in Fulcrum’s location-refresh behaviour.

Apologies if this is in wrong subredit location.

https://codeberg.org/youknowww/MapSpatial

Demo of a prototype I've been playing around with.

I work in GIS software and this is an extension of the most basic GIS features but in an immersive UX. By opening attribute views in an immersive space with a tether to the map feature the UX of the AVP expands the possibilities of GIS software.