Does anyone else wish the geospatial community was more open (like GitHub)?

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Git

The thing that enabled what you describe was git and its vast popularity, GitHub was just the first repo hosting platform to be able to massively capitalize on that. With that in mind, I'd say that the reasons for geospatial data not getting the same treatment as source code (yet) in this regard are:.

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Felt

There are pockets of truly open geodata though, like OpenStreetMap (even though it only services a very specific kind of geodata). People also put a lot of spatial data on Zenodo. There are even platforms out there built for almost exactly what you describe, like Koordinates and Felt, as well as means of managing your data in a way similar to managing source files, like Kart.

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