Best practice is a method or technique that has consistently shown results superior to those achieved with other means, and that is used as a benchmark.
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Best practices for identifying the unknown coordinate system of a Shapefile
I got a Shapefile but it's coordinate system is unknown and there is no .prj file.
How I can identify it now? Are there any tools that could help?
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Best practices for managing geospatial data
How do you manage your geospatial data? I have terrabytes of data spread out over hundreds of datasets, and have an ad-hoc solution using symbolic links within projects which link back to an ...
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Best practices for organization and tidiness - How do you deal with multiple copies of layers?
Back in the days when I was in the university I had a "Organization and tidiness" problem – I was unorganized and kept my layers in different folders without distinct names and hence had multiple ...
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Color palette conventions
I wonder if there is a "unified" source for map color conventions, that GIS map builders are encouraged to follow?
EDIT
To clear up my question a bit. I'm more interested in the color <-with ...
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What is the best practice for visualisation of a spatio-temporal data set?
I'm investigating visualisation of a spatio-temporal data-set. What examples are available, online or offline, of high-quality spatio-temporal data visualisation?
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Looking for best practices for GIS file systems [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Organization and tidiness issues - How do you deal with multiple copies of layers?
I'm trying to organize my GIS data in a file system.
I work with DTED (0,1,2), raster ...
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Best practices for visualizing speed
Imagine you're tracking, for example, vehicle or animal movement and receive regular GPS position updates. How would you visualize speed of movement on a static (= printable) map? I've been coloring ...
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What is the best practice for data management? [duplicate]
I have always been curious how other folks are storing their spatial data. Outside of an enterprise environment where much data is stored in enterprise geodatabases, is it better to store data per ...
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Is there a standardized or “most used” dummy Z value?
Creating and importing both 2D and 3D data, I have many times encountered the situation where I have no Z value for a coordinate set, that the value of a Z coordinate seems out of range (like -99, ...
