Archive for September, 2012

Carving Up GIS StackExchange

2012-09-17 by mapperz. 8 comments

GIS SE User Bill Dollins has written an interesting blog post about GIS Stack Exchange and using the GIS SE Tags and the Stack Exchange API V2.1

In Summary a very good overview of the GIS SE site:

(pulling the information for the 100 most “popular” tags, using the StackExchange API)

Grouping of Tags “Not all fell neatly into groups so I made a few judgement calls. For example, I threw tags about the Esri Flex API into “Esri Tools” whereas “Flex” went into “Development/Programming.”

For the full blog post on this please visit http://blog.geomusings.com/2012/09/13/carving-up-gis-stackexchange/

Thanks to Bill for his time and statistical analysis of GIS SE.