Talk:Geomatics/Archive 1

Archive 1

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)

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)

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)

My take on it is similar; geomatics is more general and therefore more encompassing than geoinformatics. I believe the latter has a more descrete meaning in terms of application. That meaning being the use of ancillary information relationally-linked to geospatial location, rather than the intrinsic properties of a location.JasonAtFollow-Me (talk) 04:57, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Untitled

Geomatics is not a new term and was formerly known as surveying or land surveying but has now grown to encompass a discipline which integrates acquisition, modeling, analysis, and management of geo-spatial reference data. Based on the scientific framework of geodesy, it uses terrestrial, marine, airborne, satellite-based sensors, and measurement systems and technologies to acquire spatial and other data. Geomatics includes the process of transforming spatially referenced data from different sources into common information systems which have well-defined accuracy characteristics. Dan —Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.28.114.33 (talk) 23:24, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

"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)

Merge proposal

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The result was Not to merge into Geomatics engineering. -- Happysailor ^(Talk) 22:14, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

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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)

I am very disinterested, even downright opposed, to applying an "engineering" context to any of the practices within geomatics. Science is science, and geomatics is just that. I'd lean more towards the practical application of geomatics principles being an "ology" than "eering" -- describing those efforts as a study is my preference.JasonAtFollow-Me (talk) 04:57, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Geomatics is not an engineering discipline this would make it too narrow. Engineering is generally considered the application of some sciences primarily physical science. Geomatics is yet another application of some sciences, primarily earth sciences like Geodesy and Geospatial measurement (surveying and photgrammetry)/data-Geographic Information Systems(GIS)and it addresses primarily geospatial measurements and data associated with the earth as a whole as well as in parts/regions. If your review the following websites: National Geodetic Survey, US Geological Survey, and Ohio State Universities graduate studies program in Geodesy (http://geodesy.geology.ohio-state.edu/). These sources should help us define Geomatics a little better. So basically Geomatics is a discipline which encompasses Geodesy and Geodetic sciences, like Surveying, GIS/mapping, Cartography, Photgrammetry, and some parts of Geography and Civil Engineering. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.28.114.33 (talk) 23:08, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

GEOMATICS AS WE ALL KNOW it —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.155.49.179 (talk) 17:11, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

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also known as geomatics engineering

If it is also known as such, the two article should be merged. If not, the lead needs to be rewritten; currently it is confusing on the difference between geomatics and geomatics engineering. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 20:35, 20 September 2012 (UTC)

Geomatics or surveying?

I am in land surveying and have done some civil design, and I don't particularly agree that the term land surveying is outdated. In my opinion it can encompass whatever is implied as a whole, and geomatics would be a mathematical term referring to the relationship between this discipline and other ones as they exist within and around other areas within mathematics. As long as the land surveying article is not cannibalized by this one I have no major problem with how this page exists now even if I would dispute some of the assertions (I admit this is an argument gaining in momentum, in my opinion erroneously mainly for the reason given above).--JLavigne508 (talk) 18:40, 1 October 2021 (UTC)