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- This website has been designed as a tool to help educate users about some of the many evolving aspects of both Geomatics and Web Design and to demonstrate the potential of it through actual examples. This guide was designed to be kept simple yet be very informative and should benefit all users; both those with a knowledge of geomatics and those who no nothing about it. Like the industry this site too will no doubt be constantly evolving.
Geomatics is a modern discipline which integrates the tasks of gathering, storing, processing, modeling, analyzing, and delivering spatially referenced geographic information. This broad term applies both to the science and the technology aspect of it, and integrates many more specific disciplines and technologies such as geodesy, surveying, cartography, remote sensing, photogrammetry, geographic information systems (GIS) and global positioning system (GPS).
The term geomatics is rather new, and originated here in Canada, however the popular term has since been adopted by many international organizations and is now used world wide. One of the reasons for the rapid progress, and increased visibility, of the industry was made possible by the advances of computer technology, and software engineering. The world of Geomatics has been constantly evolving, and will continue to do so, thus it is essential to keep up with the rapid growth of the knowledge, technology, and various methods.
Web design is a broad term that incorporates aspects of developing and creating web pages, web sites and/or web applications. The term often refers mainly to the graphical aspect of web development using images, cascading style sheets (CSS) and hyper text markup language (HTML) standards. However, as the internet continues to rapidly involve we tend to see that web design and web development are becoming more of one discipline and often includes graphical web design, backend programming, web server configuration and dealing with security issues.
Applications created for the web are delivered to users from a server computer over a network such as the internet. They tend to be popular due to the popularity and the easy access web browser technology. The ability to update and maintain applications without distributing and installing software on potentially thousands of client computers is a key reason for it. They are used for various uses such as to implement web e-mail, online sales, auctions, blogs, and many other functions. It has also become a popular method in geomatics for providing spatial information to a large audience without them having to purchase the high technical specialized software that was used to create the spatial data. This relatively new aspect is often been termed Web GIS or Web Mapping and has become so popular that even non geomatics organizations such as Google and Yahoo have recognized its potential.
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