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Oh, finally. There's plenty of GNSS/GIS folks lurking around the OpenStreetMap wiki and I've heard their telegram too but never explored it. There's some GNSS-but-not-GIS folks on the Time-Nuts mailing list. Galmon has its own little handful. There doesn't seem to be a good RTKLIB forum, which is weird. I hope this takes off and unites a whole bunch of little communities.
Nice! I think it's a good initiative to organize more local types of meetups in the geospatial community. Geospatial experts are a bit too few and inbetween to bump into many of them on a regular day, so anything that gets these people together is a big win. As a side note to HN readers, geospatial is a super interesting application/ specialization that you might consider getting into if you're looking to add more me…
GIS seems interesting but it also doesnt seem like it pays well. Being niche isn't bad per-se but I would expect it to be more lucrative. In some ways it seems like GIS is to software engineering as business analyst is to data science. Not in nicheness, because business analyst isnt so niche. But doesn't pay as well and less programming, more GUI/business tools. Are these impressions wrong?
But when combined with software engineering expertise, geospatial knowledge can be as lucrative as any other software job. (I am a geospatial software engineer.)
Nice! I think it's a good initiative to organize more local types of meetups in the geospatial community. Geospatial experts are a bit too few and inbetween to bump into many of them on a regular day, so anything that gets these people together is a big win. As a side note to HN readers, geospatial is a super interesting application/ specialization that you might consider getting into if you're looking to add more me…
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GIS seems interesting but it also doesnt seem like it pays well. Being niche isn't bad per-se but I would expect it to be more lucrative. In some ways it seems like GIS is to software engineering as business analyst is to data science. Not in nicheness, because business analyst isnt so niche. But doesn't pay as well and less programming, more GUI/business tools. Are these impressions wrong?
Not wrong necessarily, if "traditional GIS" is your chosen application of geospatial skills. (By "traditional GIS" I mean creating one-off analyses by interacting primarily with enterprise desktop/GUI tools like ArcGIS). But when combined with software engineering expertise, geospatial knowledge can be as lucrative as any other software job. (I am a geospatial software engineer.)
Nice! I think it's a good initiative to organize more local types of meetups in the geospatial community. Geospatial experts are a bit too few and inbetween to bump into many of them on a regular day, so anything that gets these people together is a big win. As a side note to HN readers, geospatial is a super interesting application/ specialization that you might consider getting into if you're looking to add more me…
Due to the nature of my job, I interact with some of the more noteworthy geospatial experts on a weekly basis. These people will take any time of the day to explain to you all of the microscopic nuances about how any GNSS works.
Nice! I think it's a good initiative to organize more local types of meetups in the geospatial community. Geospatial experts are a bit too few and inbetween to bump into many of them on a regular day, so anything that gets these people together is a big win. As a side note to HN readers, geospatial is a super interesting application/ specialization that you might consider getting into if you're looking to add more me…
GIS seems interesting but it also doesnt seem like it pays well. Being niche isn't bad per-se but I would expect it to be more lucrative. In some ways it seems like GIS is to software engineering as business analyst is to data science. Not in nicheness, because business analyst isnt so niche. But doesn't pay as well and less programming, more GUI/business tools. Are these impressions wrong?
It can be lucrative in the right industry with domain knowledge (eg mining or oil&gas).
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Due to the nature of my job, I interact with some of the more noteworthy geospatial experts on a weekly basis. These people will take any time of the day to explain to you all of the microscopic nuances about how any GNSS works.
I would listen to this podcast.
The basic operation of a GNSS with ~30m accuracy is literally explained on one slide in lecture 1.2, and from then on the rest of the course is about implementation specifics, and enhancing performance.
The basic concept at its core is so elegant and beautiful, but no less interesting are all the ways this system is augmented with different techniques to improve the accuracy down to ~1cm.
This is one of those resources I've downloaded and made sure to have backed up, because it's so invaluable to me.
I didn't know about Zulip stream/topics but heres my naive tl;dr after reading about it: Streams are like slack channels, topics belong to streams and have no analog in slack. They are essentially sub channels. Or tags/categories within the stream scope for your messages. Although threads (if people use them) arguably serve a similar purpose on slack. I wonder, is it possible to message on the base stream, or only to…
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I would listen to this podcast.
Not a podcast, but a Stanford MOOC (massive open online course): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1Fyn_h6LKU&list=PLGvhNIiu1u... The basic operation of a GNSS with ~30m accuracy is literally explained on one slide in lecture 1.2, and from then on the rest of the course is about implementation specifics, and enhancing performance. The basic concept at its core is so elegant and beautiful, but no less interesting are a…