What are the best news resources for the GIS community?

Question

I currently rely on a mixture of mailing lists, twitter and a couple of blogs. What do you find as an indispensable part of your GIS media intake?

I voted to close this topic because it is asking for value judgement and cannot be answered definitively. At the very least, it should be a community wiki.

Hugo Estrada · Accepted Answer · 2010-07-23 11:46:16Z

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I don't know if this would be the best, but this one is pretty good http://slashgeo.org/

answered Jul 23 '10 at 11:46

Hugo Estrada
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	+1 - my top source as well – radek Jul 23 '10 at 12:49
	also best for me – stachu Jul 27 '10 at 7:06

Jay Cummins · Answer 2 · 2010-07-23 10:29:58Z

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Planet Geospatial: I check http://www.planetgs.com a couple of times a day. It aggregates a lot of the geospatial news/blog sites.

answered Jul 23 '10 at 10:29

Jay Cummins
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I decided not to include as part of my answer, but twitter.com/#search?q=%23GIS is a good source. Although I find that most of the planetgs entries are announced on twitter, so it's just a matter of whether you want it real-time or if you can wait until the end of the day! – Jay Cummins Jul 23 '10 at 12:08

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I agree with Jay, that Twitter is an interesting place to find inspiration :) – Chau Jul 27 '10 at 12:15

fmark · Answer 3 · 2010-07-24 07:56:32Z

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Don't forget the GIS Stackexchange!

answered Jul 24 '10 at 7:56

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George · Answer 4 · 2010-07-23 13:26:26Z

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I like them both, but I heavily check on a few good blogs to be inside the scoop.

James Fee

Dave Bouwman

Regina Obe's

edited Jul 23 '10 at 13:26

answered Jul 23 '10 at 11:53

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markusN · Answer 5 · 2011-03-31 21:28:00Z

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Very nice also the Planet OSGeo: http://planet.osgeo.org/ - "Planet OSGeo is a window into the world, work and lives of OSGeo members, hackers and contributors."

answered edited Mar 31 '11 at 21:28

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Fezter · Answer 6 · 2012-10-29 08:16:53Z

Adding to few mentioned already:

Might be also worth browsing through RSS feeds of couple of journals. My favourites:

Alex Tereshenkov · Answer 7 · 2013-02-01 12:05:21Z

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Lots of information in GIS Lounge.
Very spatial
Since I am working with ArcGIS products, I read ESRI blogs.
All news and fun things about Google products can be found in Google Maps Mania.
Free tools: http://freegeographytools.com

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answered Jul 23 '10 at 13:22

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knb · Answer 8 · 2013-01-28 16:44:27Z

I like the podcasts from directions magazine. I can't really tell how small (or big) they are as a company. I'm from Germany, they don't sell the magazine here.

The podcast is in dialog mode between two editors, and they usually talk about a lot of products, technologies, trends. I liked how they compared their predictions for a calendar-year with the actual results after that year has ended.