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.
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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
Source: Webster's New Millennium™ Dictionary of English, Preview Edition (v 0.9.6) Copyright © 2003-2005 Lexico Publishing Group, LLC
[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)
[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)
