Voted by GIS users
- Thou shalt save often
- Zip before you ship the shapefiles
- Thine date format shall be YYYYMMDD
- Thou shalt not mingle thy units, feet and meters, together
- Thou shalt back up your files
- Use a unique ID column for joins
- Honour thy project and define projection tools
- Use Geopackage
- Thyself is thine own master if you use open source
- Postal codes are great … if you are mailing a letter
Two of my favorites — “Never open the XLS file with Excel” and “Thursdays are pantless” — did not make the top ten. Such is life.
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