[HN Gopher] Enclaves and Exclaves: A tour of the world's engulfe...
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       Enclaves and Exclaves: A tour of the world's engulfed and orphaned
       places
        
       Author : takiwatanga
       Score  : 76 points
       Date   : 2022-10-30 09:55 UTC (13 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (storymaps.arcgis.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (storymaps.arcgis.com)
        
       | wodenokoto wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | smitty1e wrote:
         | ESRI offers quite a bit of functionality, but the licensing is
         | notable.
        
         | matkoniecz wrote:
         | > 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 wrote:
         | 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 wrote:
         | 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.
        
       | V__ wrote:
       | There are some more which are also interesting, like the Venbahn
       | [1], Baarle-Nassau [2] or Busingen [3].
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       | [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEM_cp6hVeM [2]
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE93J33SfHY [3]
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIe62qN0FEo
        
       | jorgenhorstink wrote:
       | The municipality of Baarle-Hertog is much fun. Turtles all the
       | way down...
       | 
       | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-Hertog
        
       | varajelle wrote:
       | Reminds me of https://www.elbruz.org/special-projects/islands-
       | and-lakes/ (Largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an
       | island)
        
         | metadat wrote:
         | Additional details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Manitou
        
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