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GIS Workflow Automation Gaps

Non-technical and GIS professionals struggle with manual, error-prone geospatial data processing, editing, and integration across tools.

In their words

any software that doesn't treat a Place as a first-class entity is an incomplete model that is actively harming genealogical research

r/Genealogy on Reddit

we are reaching a quantity of data (TB), an internal hosting option that experiences frequent downtime, and a zeal for open source that has us looking into a large lift and shift

r/gis on Reddit

Are there any free apps out there that let you upload georeferenced PDFs?

r/QGIS on Reddit

If all those things were in place? I’d pay solid money for that.

r/wonderdraft on Reddit

Spending way too many hours bouncing between county auditor sites and random free tools trying to pull together parcel data with any kind of usable map layer.

r/QGIS on Reddit

I literally save days mapping and analyzing subject and sales.

r/appraisal on Reddit

The main problem is that the grid of buildable sectors is highly irregular, and I have no idea how to add the ability to create roads within such a complex system.

r/Unity3D on Reddit

I spent 5 hours with that poor guy watching me struggle over and over and over, failing every way you can imagine.

r/gis on Reddit

I run rhe GIS program and it is so frustrating to receive garbage and have divisions reach out to me to functionally redo the work they paid hundreds of thousands for.

r/recruitinghell on Reddit

Spatial joins are just very inefficient at very large scale and you really need to precalculate stuff in advanced.

r/dataengineering on Reddit

Autodesk, Bentley, et al aren't really communicating at all about this topic, and they basically have no response to queries about whether/how they will perform transformations on legacy data...

r/Surveying on Reddit

Compiling that data with actual surveyed data is mind numbing. The in accuracy of the hand held make the tree data almost unusable.

r/civilengineering on Reddit

if there were something in between, I would be pleased

Hacker News

Ce serait super de cliquer a quelque part sur une carte et voir apparaitre nos chantier avec des points sur une carte

Asana community

GIS professionals and non-technical users

Where they talk

  • r/QGIS
  • r/gis
  • r/ArcGIS
  • r/Surveying
  • r/wonderdraft
  • r/UtilityLocator
  • r/civil3d
  • r/civilengineering

Tools they use today

  • QGIS
  • ArcGIS Pro
  • OpenStreetMap
  • Excel
  • Google Earth
  • Civil 3D
  • Google Maps
  • GeoLibre

Why those fall short

  • outside vendors deliver garbage and deliverables get shelved
  • no road-building system exists for irregular, non-repeating tile grids
  • utility GIS not updated since 2004
  • Aerial and heatmap data cannot show legal access or signage
  • no first-class place entity, no date-scoped names, no nested hierarchies, forced normalization