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The Ten Commandments of GIS
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Which of these statements belong in The Ten Commandments of GIS? Pick all that apply.
Never open the XLS file with Excel
Never use a shapefile
Honour thy project and define projection tools
Don’t move files in file explorer
Zip before you ship the shapefiles
Be careful opening a large GeoJSON with your text editor
Use Geopackage
Use a unique ID column for joins
Thou shalt save often
Thou shalt not mingled thy units, feet and meters together
Thine date format shall be YYYYMMDD
Thou shall not take the name of Jack in vain
Never open the *DBF* file with Excel
Thyself is thine own master iff you use open source
Accept DWGs without a *lot* of metadata
Rainbow palette should only ever be used for mapping the location of rainbows
Don’t receive shapfiles without dictionary, especially when there is subtypes
Mercator is an excellent and appropriate choice (for 16th century sea captains).
Postal codes are great....if you are mailing a letter
Thou shall backup your files
Clip, zip & ship
I’m shapefile we trust
Have 30 Commandments instead of 10
OpenLayers v2 is out of date.
Thou shalt not write a new script in Python 2.
GIS is simultaneously social and technical.
It's just data, get over yourself
GIS is only one of the many ways to make geographic knowledge, so it makes sense to not make GIS the centre of the mapping project by default.
Thursdays are pantless
Thou shall learn GO Lang
All the cool tools you use weren't created by geographers.
Topology is for loosers
GIS is fundamentally political system because it deals with space, knowledge, and power. Just be honest about that.
Your ESRI rep is not your friend
The whole GIS industry severely lacks geographical and gender diversity. It's a reality that must be addressed.
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