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Definition: Geospatial[edit]

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

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The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.

The result of this discussion was merge with three merge and one keep. GeogSage ^{(⚔Chat?⚔)} 17:00, 12 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Following up on a previous merge proposal with the page Geomatics engineering. I believe geomatics engineering should be merged into geomatics and converted into a redirect. This is because the topics have tremendous overlap, and are borderline duplicate. It can be as simple as one or two sentences that say, "Some institutions have departments or degrees for applied geomatics that use the title of geomatics engineering". We can then include the two or three sources from the geomatics engineering page to improve verification of this one. If this merge fails, geomatics engineering needs a major overhaul. GeogSage ^{(⚔Chat?⚔)} 22:31, 11 December 2023 (UTC) @Happysailor, Piotrus, DrDisco, Vsmith, Franked2004, MoRsE, JasonAtFollow-Me, Vidhya lakshmi, and Cepek:[reply]

Merge I'm inclined to agree with the merge proposal, largely for the reasons outlined in the original post and the resply to @Franked2004 below. Arcendeight (talk) 18:41, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Happysailor:, @GeogSage:, Before making a perception, please view the current article recently made after a huge copy editing and data addition. I don't feel geomatics can address geomatics engineering similar as computer can't address computer engineering. I hope looking to solution shall be benifitial to termination for whole the wiki and wiki community. Stay positive, regards!Franked2004 (talk) 18:52, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, thank you for taking the time to add citations and copy edit the page. I do apricate the effort even if I still disagree on organization. An example of why can be found on the geomatics engineering page, with the link to Surveying engineering being a redirect to the geomatics engineering page. Survey engineering is Definity something that is quite old, however, it does not have a page. Instead, there is an extensive page on surveying that has a section titled "profession." I'm aware you know this, as you recently changed the "see also" section for this part of the page from geomatics to geomatics engineering here. Geomatics engineering is mentioned on the geomatics page. Both pages need overhaul, and a redirect to the main geomatics page for geomatics engineering with a section on geomatics professionals that includes geomatics engineering would be similar to how other pages are organized.

The past several decades have seen geography sliced into a multitude of sub-disciplines as they attempt to specialize. It's really odd, but seems to come from misconceptions about how broad geography actually is, both now and historically. Splitting geomatics into geomatics engineering is just splitting that sub-sub-discipline further. Others seem to invent a word before checking to see if one exists already, as is the case for most of these rebrandings like geospatial engineering. One thing I'd like to note is that there are no sources that state geospatial engineering is a sub field of geomatics engineering, as listed on the geomatics engineering page. The main reason I point this out is that someone with a military background in geospatial engineering could make an equally strong case for a page on that topic that is separate from geomatics entirely. The military historically used the term "Topographic engineer," which is quite prominent in the military history literature. This is also, without a page, and redircts to Topography. GeogSage ^{(⚔Chat?⚔)} 17:41, 23 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I respect your opinion equally. I hope much of our concept have been clear here and we should welcome fellow other editors to comment and i hope you may invite some even now. Regarding your concern, surveying engineering is currently called as geomatics engineering with various chances and addition is mentioned in new article, Geomatics engineering. And if geomatics engineering is branch of branch, I see articles on structural engineering, transportation engineering and many others which themselves are branch of civil engineering. Surprisingly, there is also an article on Highway engineering which is further a branch of Transportation engineering. To complete i must say mechanical and civil engineering are somehow application of physics (specially mechanics). So, you can't call engineering is branch of branch. Engineering is application of certain concept or subject. To conclude i should make clear Tribhuvan University which has several record runs geospatial engineering as sub domain of geomatics engineering.[1] Franked2004 (talk) 14:23, 25 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Requested opinion of additional editors from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Proposed_article_mergers#Merge_requests GeogSage ^{(⚔Chat?⚔)} 05:29, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support - Merging makes sense to me for the same reasons as @Arcendeight Choucas Bleu (T·C) 15:44, 12 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep @GeogSage:, I am the one who revived this article. Yes as an engineering student I feel geomatics engineering in itself is a vast idea and this article needs development for which I asked helped in concerned wiki projects. I welcome if you can make any contribution. An application of science, geomatics engineering covers a huge domain in today's world. Why to redirect a vast ground article to a topic called Geomatics which in itself is unknown to many? I recommend removing the section engineering from this article or keep main article template.Franked2004 (talk)

Comment @Franked2004:, the page forgeomatics engineering is seriously lacking in sources, as is the page for geomatics in general. Wikipedia is not a dictionary, and I don't see a source that indicates geomatics engineering is anything more then applied geomatics with some sort of certificate. Geographic Information Science, geoinformatics, geomatics, topographic engineer, Geospatial engineer, etc. are all terms that exist within the literature and have tremendous overlap. The source you cited for geomatic engineering being established in the military doesn't use the term at all, but instead uses "geospatial engineer." Should a page be created for that term as well? There are countless terms that exist to describe this exact job, and many people have their own preference. All of these jobs are geography, but for some reason people are highly resistant to the idea that they fall under that umbrella (this has been going on for a bit over a century to geographers, when someone thinks they can appropriate a part of the discipline, slap a new label on it, and pretend it is both new and unique from geography). I suggest you start by finding a few peer reviewed sources on Google Scholar that defines the difference between geomatics and geomatic engineering. Otherwise, I can't see a reason they should be separated.

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