Elements of GIS&T
The bread and butter tasks of a geographer, hopefully sorted and organized in an atomic, functional, and logical manner. As mentioned, this form is only partially my own, but is more a reflection, distillation, and grateful pilfering of several far more authoritative and comprehensive references and thinkers. I heartily recommend checking them out before you waste your time here. That full list can be found on my Atlas homepage, most this section in particular draws inspiration and content from Spatial Data Science by Edzer Pebesma and Roger Bivand, the periodic table of spatial analysis from https://gisgeography.com and the framing of Diataxis.
As I’ve pointed out before, I hate semantics but they seem like a necessary evil in interdisciplinary teams. While it’s usually seen as fine to let semantic slipups slide by, I’d argue that in the long run it’s best to catch the important ones in the moment. Not only does doing so ensure that you and your audience are aiming at the same concepts, but when that audience goes on to share the knowledge they’ve gained they’ll (hopefully) be more attentive to those nuances and ensure that they are communicating the message you would like to convey as clearly as possible. This comes from someone who would (and still does) conceptually call half of the following operations “joins”…
I’ve scaffolded out the entire table, but expect to find only a few of these to be populated for the time being; I’ll release the others as I feel they matured into real resources.