I have a uni assignment due tonight based on this software but when I try and open any maps they do not open and I get a blank screen. The file itself seems to load but I can’t see a display and I don’t know what to do. Im running it through Citrix workspace and just downloaded so everything should be up to date

I'm new to GIS and still learning and would like to work in the field of biodiversity conservation and ecological restoration in the near future. My question is somewhat dumb, but how can we use GIS in those fields?

No hate, please.
TIA!

What are some current options for acquiring good high-resolution imagery of forests in North America? Back when I worried in South America, I used to work with the WorldView-2 provided by Spatial Solutions, LLC. Looking for something similar that can either be purchased commercially or acquired for research.

Hi. I’m working in ArcPro at my university and after closing my map and reopening, I now have this screen.

I do not have a previous version to pull from and I restarted the computer with no success. I think I have let it sit for five minutes or so with no changes. And I can’t seem to find other ideas, help!

I'm looking for some advice on my resume. I am trying to obtain an entry level GIS job as an analyst and was wondering the best way to highlight my experience, skills, and education. I know my background isn't the best match for shifting to a purely GIS position and wonder what else I could do to achieve my goal. Thank you for any assistance in this.

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My city is undertaking a HUGE CS4 dig project, and it has me curious about what networks of tunnels are in the city (that doesn't have subways). I didn't see any maps on open data portal- I'm guessing these aren't typically published due to urbex crowds....

I know nothing about gis but am trying to learn.

I want to identify certain soil classifications and get back gps coordinates from usda soil survey.

So for instance, if I want to find a list of class 3 soil in the state of Florida and get back corresponding gps coordinates in list form

If I download qgis would I be able to accomplish this?

I've recently joined a new company which has a very different data delivery setup to what I'm used to, I've worked for a lot of small companies with 1-2 people actually using GIS, now we have more stakeholders and the chance things will expand quickly. I'm trying to get ahead of all a that, and decrease my own annoyance in the process.

I've been using various GIS since ~2010 but its largely self taught, with smaller organizations with less intrusive IT policies, so I never needed to learn about alternative data delivery methods.

Corporate don't want us to have data stored locally on our work machines for a variety of reasons, but it means that the resulting workflow is onerous. We all remotely work, so that will need to be accounted for.

Our current workflow:

• Data is stored on an Egnyte cloud server, in a standard-ish file structure.
• We log into an AWS virtual machine connected to the Egnyte instance.
• We then fire up QGIS on this AWS VM, and can work from shared projects, connected to files on Egnyte.
• In essence, we use our work laptops to log into AWS, and then work on AWS as if the files were local there, but of course they aren't really, and it results in some very slow processes.
• The work we are doing isn't intensive spatial analysis, generally we're collecting open source data, styling and creating maps.

We're currently assessing different GIS packages to hopefully speed up workflows, allow the use of specific plugins, make sharing data a little more intuitive etc.

I've spoken with some ESRI reps about the situation, to see what they might suggest. The current QGIS setup is running into several bottlenecks which is why we're looking at switching away. ESRI suggested one possible workflow:

• Have all data (GIS plus everything else) stored on Egnyte.
• Work with ArcPro locally to create a 'final' file which is then uploaded to ArcGIS Online.
• Link back resulting AGO layer into our projects, keeping the data off the local hard drive, and editing said online file going forward.

My questions are:

• Is the company's current Cloud VM setup common?
• Are there methods which might speed up the above VM setup?
• Are there any other products//setups (open source or proprietary) that I should look into for data storage and delivery?

If there were any clarification points needed, let me know. Thanks for any assistance or thoughts!

Hey everyone

I need to get myself an ergonomic mouse because I’ve been using a gamer one but my wrist is getting achy too often.

What are your opinions about trackball mice? What about the Logitech M575 Ergonomic Wireless Trackball?

I mostly work on Arcgis pro and ArcMap, along with excel and word, so I’d really love to hear your opinions.

If you have any suggestions about any other mice that are ergonomic and won’t tire my wrist, I’d appreciate them.

Thank you all and happy mapping!

Like the title says, I'm starting my first GIS job at my local City gov, and I'm looking for some general advice from other people who have worked, or currently work for their city. According to my new supervisor, I'm the first GIS person on a new team, but they do have an established GIS department for other teams, so a lot of what I'll be doing should be largely my own discretion.

That said, I'm unsure of what to expect when moving from the private sector to the public sector, so if there's anyone that can give me some advice and things I can use to hit the ground running, I would greatly appreciate it!

I have 8 years of gis experience finishing my masters in GIS in December 2024. I can't manage to receive viable employment. So many applications so many denials I just had one interview with poor pay. I was also told the job would have limited GIS.

I apply to NGA I keep getting denied from the agency. What is the deal? Are they really that competitive?

I'm currently like located in Northern West , Virginia

Hi! Is anyone currently in or is considering the online MS in Applied Geospatial Analytics degree from Purdue? I can't find much information on it or any alumni on LinkedIn to reach out to. (https://polytechnic.purdue.edu/degrees/masters-applied-geospatial-analytics-online/applied-geospatial-analytics-plan-of-study) It looks like an interesting and affordable interdisciplinary degree. As someone how is already a GIS professional, I'm trying to see if it would be a good compliment to my skill set or just a waste of time and money. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated! :)

Hi everyone! I was wondering if anyone else uses a portable monitor/has suggestions for one? I have a semi-remote job right now that offers me some travel flexibility and I'm trying to figure out the best setup for when I'm away from the office/home office. Any suggestions (or any arguments against portable monitors) would be much appreciated!

It’s for a GIS technician position, and I’m going to keep it a buck fifty with y’all.

I have a single class worth of GIS knowledge. I’ve been watching YouTube and learning different ways to do stuff.

What advice can you all give me for the interview and if I am chosen, how would you proceed ?

I know this is a broad thing to ask without having a job position in mind but what certifications are worth pursuing? I was planning on pursuing CompTIA Security+ and a cloud certificate but can't decide between AWS or Azure.

I have a tif file and its coordinate system is UTM WGS84. But whenever I change it's coordinate system to match the map and other layers (NAD 1983 StatePlane Florida North), it moves to a completely different location.

I tried the following and it did not give the result I was hoping for:

1. Define Projection
2. Project Raster
3. Reproject Raster
4. I tried to georeference. But it was grayed out. I even create a world file and it did not help.

May I please know if there is anything else I can do?

Hey there everyone! So I’ve got my degree in a hybrid archaeology and GIS major but I’ve been out of school for about 5 years and since then none of my professional work has been in GIS and I feel lost with it now. However, I’m trying to make a career change and focus on GIS to have a more stable career. I have an interview as a GIS technician coming up next week so I’m trying to sort of do a crash course and remember everything I can and relearn what I don’t. Do you guys have any tips for the interview or resources that would help me brush up?

I'm having some trouble on getting everything to align. I have 4 pointclouds from ALS from the years 2013-2023. The USGS also has the same area at the same 1m resolution for 2013. We've had some issues with classification on the pointclouds (2013 was heavily vegetated), so I thought maybe the USGS DEM might be a better better than ours.

In addition to ALS, we have RTK data which is all reference to an ellipsoidal height, so after I aligned the point clouds in CC, I transformed them from NAD83 State Plane (13N) / VCS: EGM96 Geoid to WGS84 State Plane (13N) / VCS: WGS84 to match the RTK data. I don't have the metadata for my pointclouds, so I don't know what geoid model they are actually referencing, but this was the only one I could get to run in ESRI. I did this specifically with my 2013 data, but for some reason everything was 3.5 meters too low. I'm using a ground control point thats a road (unfortunately only one side of the area) as a reference. Initially, I chalked this up to the pointcloud itself just needing to be better aligned to the others, so I manually translated it up to align with the other years and I was able to remove the 3.5 meter vertical offset.

On the USGS DEM (I don't have the .las), they specify they use the NAVD88 (GEOID18) model. Of course, ESRI doesn't seem to have this transformation (from NAVD88 to WGS1984), so I have been working in vdatum for this raster. The USGS DEM (before transformation) is about 8 or 9 meters too high on my ground control. After transforming in VDatum, the elevation is now back to the 3.5 meters too low that my point cloud was.

I'm not buying a 3.5 meter (about 10 feet) change on a road, and I'm not buying 3.5 meters of deposition in the channel (its a very small channel). And I don't see how inaccurate classification (to create the bare-earth model) would end up in a 3.5 meter difference (in this case -3.5 meters).

For change detection analysis, should I resort back to my 2013 pointcloud and DEM since I feel confident it is aligned the best as possible to my other point clouds? Or is there still some transformation I can do on the USGS DEM? Obviously if I were able to get the USGS to very close to the 2013 pointcloud I manually did, I'd feel very confident in everything else.

Thanks!

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I have about 100 individual features. Some of them may touch, but cannot intersect. The problem is that that there's no correct answer on which polygon is correct when intersecting. In theory I would like to have it so that the overlap is clipped into the larger polygon, but I have no idea the workflow or tools that would allow that. There are dozens of jags per a pair of overlapping polygons and there's roughly 100 polygons. I really do not want to manually edit the vertices. Any insight would be greatly appreciate.

Hi everyone, I hope you are OK.

I am from Argentina and nowadays I am working as GIS Technician with DEMs, hydrology, soils movements, cartography, pipeline, etc for a O&G company. BUT the financial situation here is hard and I am looking for a job outside because I need an extra income…

I am a geologist and I am 29. Do you have any advice, any page, where could I apply for a job?

Thanks a lot in advance and have a nice weekend,

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I just launched my new site for learning modern GIS today with the first course focusing on the fundamentals of modern GIS. The course is non-technical but focuses on technical concepts, but future courses will go into some of the technical skills. Comes with a certification and there is a discount code in the most recent version of my newsletter here!

I saw there was an associated press API but I was hoping there might be an easier source.

I saw MIT has previous election data but I was hoping to compare that with 2024

Hello all,

Looking for a GIS job in Chicago and having little success with traditional job pages. Looking if anyone knows of networking/GIS affiliate groups based out of Chicago.

Thanks!

I am a soon to be college graduate with a degree in Environmental Science and one in GIS. I will be graduating in May and have been looking for work in the Denver area primarily on indeed. What other places would you recommend to find places looking to hire new grads?

Hi all - i'm new here (and new to GIS)

I'm looking for out the box solutions to visually align one geotif file to another. The challenge is the files are relatively large.

I get good results using a combination of gdal and openCV.

My approach is as follows assuming the source image is the image we want to align with the target image:

- gdal to match the target image dimensions to the dimensions of the source image.
- openCV AKAZE to compute keypoints and descriptors for matching
- openCV BFMatcher to match source and destination points
- openCV findHomography to calculate a transformation matrix
- openCV to warp the perspective of the source image

gdal with GCPs and tsp warp simply does not work. It runs forever (hours) without producing any results even on very small files.

Looking for any suggestions for out the box solutions to rectify/ align one image to another programatically.

Thanks in advance!

Hi, New to Arc pro and had been using ArcMap for 15 years before. Not a pro at all but was getting around doing fairly simple analysis. I am trying to figure how or if I can import layers from Arc Gis Online. With ArcMap, you could just click on the add layer and have the option to add data from arc gis online. Now with pro, this does not seem to be an available option anymore. You can only add a set of predefined basemaps or add data through a bunch of means, but I cannot find the option to search trough the online data base as before to add layers. Can it be done? Thanks.

Edit: thank you for your help! Problem solved.