Talk:Geomatics

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"Geomatics is considered a branch of geography." I am a bit uneasy with that. I come from Geodesy or land surveying, and "we" always considered us an engineering discipline, and this does not fit really together with Geography. Chris

From my standpoint, I'd say that the situation is just the opposite: Geodesy is one of the disciplines that is taken into account by Geomatics. Michel.
I don't know how binary the choice is, but it is much more engineering than geography. Geography mostly falls under humanities, I really don't think Geomatics does. Disco (talk) 00:13, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Definition: Geospatial

Main Entry: geospatial Part of Speech: adjective Definition: pertaining to the geographic location and characteristics of natural or constructed features and boundaries on, above, or below the earth's surface; esp. referring to data that is geographic and spatial in nature


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[edit] We

"We have free geomatics resources": change to third person or something. --Jidanni 2006-04-16

[edit] Geomancy?

This term seems to just pop up in the text with a clear relation to the term. As a Geomaticien, I've never stubbled accross this term prior to today.Dryzen 18:02, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Whoops, looks like I wrote that while merging from Geomatic, thanks for the quick correction :) This article certainly has nothing to do with Geomancy. 02:43, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
I just learnt what Geomancy is then. Your quite right not much correlation between the two.Dryzen 15:25, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Difference with Geoinformatics

Hi, I'm coming from the French wikipedia where there is a discussion [1] about the difference between Geomatics and Geoinformatics. Could someone explain the difference ? Or is the a duplicate article ? Thanx in advance for any answer :o) --Piksou 09:49, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

I think geomatics is the modern term of all sciences about the Earth, including geoinformatics. For example, geomatics include geodesy. At the same time, geoinformatics and geodesy is terms of one level.
APh 07:09, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] No Difference

Hi there,

Well, I am not sure whether they are different. I guess they are one and the same.

Because I come from a Geo-informatics background, I could very well say that I am a geomatics engineer or a geo-informatics engineer!


Vidhya lakshmi 12:08, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

If there is a difference, it is really very subtle, so my opinion is that both terms describe the same thing. A definition of geoinforamtics is available from http://paces.geo.utep.edu/research/geoinformatics/geoinformatics_explained_brief.shtml which could be used to advocate certain difference of both terms. Cepek 12:56, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merge proposal

Geomatics engineering seems to be the same thing, especially as the definition given on this page is a definition of geomatics engineering. Vsmith (talk) 20:19, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

I don't really like the suggestion as there is a need for the "Geomatics enginnering" article from an academic point of view, see for instance the article on Bachelor of Engineering that presents multiple other fields in the same manner. --MoRsE (talk) 20:05, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
I like the suggestion. Geomatics is Geomatic Engineering. The difference is only a debate of qualifications. Like saying that you should have a seperate page for medicine and medicine administered by doctors. Hmmm, well that's my best effort as an analogy, but I am for the proposed merge. Disco (talk) 01:41, 1 May 2008 (UTC)