Talk:Geographic information science
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incorrect capitalisation
editI changed the capitalisation of the lemma (and of geographic information system) to correspond to other sciences (and general spelling rules for common/proper nouns). It wouldn't be correct to capitalise "physics" or "theory of relativity" either. BTW, it's confusing for non-experts that according to the name it's a science, but the article calls it a theory. --Espoo 12:59, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
Additional information
editGood start. In addition, consider adding link(s) and/or various addedums related to information science (IS) - moreover, research topics w/in IS that the existing entry for Geographic Information Science loosely touches on already; for example:
relevance / precicion vs. recall / information seeking behavior / cognitive modeling of the user / information visualization
Just brainstorming, but those can all be applied to this entry in some meaningful fashion. Thanks, and keep up the good work!
Distinction without a difference
editI'm afraid that GeoComputation is not really different, but a different definition of Geographic Information Systems. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.0.130.100 (talk) 21:50, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
Don't agree from my very limited knowledge. GeoComputation may or may not involve a GIS. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.150.108.37 (talk) 11:28, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
Answer and proposition. The most commonly and widely accepted term of Geomatics should cover both Geoinformatics and Geocomputation, and probably Geographic information science. A merge of all those articles, which are not very dense anyway, could reasonably be a common ground for the four names. Slight differences could be mentioned in a special paragraphs (I'll think about a version of it). All the folks in these domains are meeting in the same conferences! The fact that -as the above anonymous- GIS are or not involved, doesnt matter to the underlying science and tech. But GIS should keep their own entry in the encyclopedia, as a technology used in Geomatics. Moreover, the status of Geomatics engineering seems unclear, as it is a mere list of the technologies used in Geomatics. It could become a section of the new article. Jeansoulin (talk) 14:27, 29 February 2012 (UTC)