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Enclaves and Exclaves: A tour of the world's engulfed and orphaned places

79 points by takiwatanga 4y ago

varajelle 4y ago
Reminds me of https://www.elbruz.org/special-projects/islands-and-lakes/ https://www.elbruz.org/special-projects/islands-and-lakes/ (Largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island)
- metadat 4y ago
  Additional details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Manitou https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Manitou
wodenokoto 4y ago
Arcis/Esri is upping their SEO game. Two articles on the front page on the same day! Anyone have experience working with their software? I've been assigned a task were I have to analyze a fair amount of GIS data, and have been using Geopandas with mixed feeling.
- matkoniecz 4y ago
  > Anyone have experience working with their software? I never used it, for my purposes QGIS was good enough. And I am willing to put up with a lot to avoid vendor lock-in. See recent story how opening old Adobe files will cause loss of colour info, unless you pay licensing fee to Pantone. I strongly encourage the same and to consider donating some part of saved funds to QGIS, possibly earmarked for something you want.
- prepend 4y ago
  They kind of remind me of SAS. Their software isn’t horrible, but it’s not cheap and their licensing is complicated and their products overlap with each other and they are constantly pushing new products that have separate licenses. I like that the company seems really dedicated to their areas and love GIS, like this article shows, but feel kind of bad because big commercial software is in a tough place.
- vharuck 4y ago
  Their GUIs aren't bad. But the Python modules they offer for scripting are bad. The old one, "arcpy", was very un-Pythonic (e.g., no class for map layers, functions just returned layer names as strings). The new package, "arcgis", is better, but the documentation is bad. And you'll still need to use arcpy for some tasks. I haven't used QGIS yet, but I'm probably going to start tinkering with it at home.
- smitty1e 4y ago
  ESRI offers quite a bit of functionality, but the licensing is notable.
jorgenhorstink 4y ago
The municipality of Baarle-Hertog is much fun. Turtles all the way down… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-Hertog https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-Hertog
V__ 4y ago
There are some more which are also interesting, like the Venbahn [1], Baarle-Nassau [2] or Büsingen [3]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEM_cp6hVeM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEM_cp6hVeM [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE93J33SfHY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE93J33SfHY [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIe62qN0FEo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIe62qN0FEo

79 points by takiwatanga 4y ago

Reminds me of https://www.elbruz.org/special-projects/islands-and-lakes/ https://www.elbruz.org/special-projects/islands-and-lakes/ (Largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island)

metadat 4y ago
Additional details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Manitou https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Manitou

wodenokoto 4y ago

Arcis/Esri is upping their SEO game. Two articles on the front page on the same day! Anyone have experience working with their software? I've been assigned a task were I have to analyze a fair amount of GIS data, and have been using Geopandas with mixed feeling.

matkoniecz 4y ago
> Anyone have experience working with their software? I never used it, for my purposes QGIS was good enough. And I am willing to put up with a lot to avoid vendor lock-in. See recent story how opening old Adobe files will cause loss of colour info, unless you pay licensing fee to Pantone. I strongly encourage the same and to consider donating some part of saved funds to QGIS, possibly earmarked for something you want.
prepend 4y ago
They kind of remind me of SAS. Their software isn’t horrible, but it’s not cheap and their licensing is complicated and their products overlap with each other and they are constantly pushing new products that have separate licenses. I like that the company seems really dedicated to their areas and love GIS, like this article shows, but feel kind of bad because big commercial software is in a tough place.
vharuck 4y ago
Their GUIs aren't bad. But the Python modules they offer for scripting are bad. The old one, "arcpy", was very un-Pythonic (e.g., no class for map layers, functions just returned layer names as strings). The new package, "arcgis", is better, but the documentation is bad. And you'll still need to use arcpy for some tasks. I haven't used QGIS yet, but I'm probably going to start tinkering with it at home.
smitty1e 4y ago
ESRI offers quite a bit of functionality, but the licensing is notable.

jorgenhorstink 4y ago

The municipality of Baarle-Hertog is much fun. Turtles all the way down… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-Hertog https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-Hertog

V__ 4y ago

There are some more which are also interesting, like the Venbahn [1], Baarle-Nassau [2] or Büsingen [3]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEM_cp6hVeM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEM_cp6hVeM [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE93J33SfHY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE93J33SfHY [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIe62qN0FEo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIe62qN0FEo