There seems to be great confusion between these two great disciplines, especially noting that some geographers and schools claim that Geomatics is a geographical science when it is not. There has been a general confusion […]
While IoT continues to grow in hype and in real importance, all of this excitement will start to wane if we do not see a significant degree of standardization of device types, measured quantities, and […]
by Ed Kennedy and Evert Kenk. Is there value in formalizing definitions for both the Geomatics Sector and Geospatial Community that capture a meaningful relationship between the two? The ongoing Geomatics versus Geospatial debate once […]
“Not good enough damn it! Not good enough!” – Jean-Luc Picard Jonathan Murphy, Managing Director of GoGeomatics asked me many months ago if I’d pen a guest blog entry on the question of Identity […]
Some have voiced a concern that Canada’s geomatics industry does not have a viable trade and industry association. There are many examples of organizations that link to the edges of geomatics. Examples include the Association […]
Over forty years, the writer has witnessed a series of transitions and changes in terminology related to changes in the technology. In the sixties, at the federal level, the Surveys and Mapping branch was part […]
Great debates about the terms geomatics, geospatial, geoinformation and geoscience have occurred for decades. Additional terms like geoanalysis, geolocation, geocomputation and spatial data infrastructure are mixed into the slurry of ‘geo-ness’. There are even ‘invented’ […]
Who is Listening to you on Twitter? If you or your business aren’t on Twitter you might not even realize there is a Canadian geomatics conversation going on in the Twitter-verse. GoGeomatics Canada is on […]