Screenshots date fast, clutter easily, and are often the wrong tool. When to use them, how to keep them maintainable, and what to use instead.
Undocumented software accrues debt exactly like uncommented code. Why the bill always comes due — usually at the worst possible moment.
Software ships continuously; documentation can’t be rewritten every sprint. Strategies for writing docs that survive the next release.
Increasingly, the people using GIS software aren’t cartographers — they’re planners, surveyors, field crews. Documentation has to meet them where they are.
Not all documentation does the same job. A practical map of the core document types, who each one serves, and the order to build them…
Most GIS documentation is written by engineers under deadline pressure — accurate, but unusable. Here’s what separates documentation people actually read from documentation that sits…
