How about we call it omnimatics? That way we have a panacea Ian White :: Urban Mapping Inc 690 Fifth Street Suite 200 :: San Francisco CA 94107 T.415.946.8170 :: F.866.385.8266 :: urbanmapping.com/blog
----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> To: David G. Smith PE PLS <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]> Sent: Wed Sep 09 10:56:45 2009 Subject: Re: [Geowanking] Planetary 'Geo'matics - is it a right term? On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:46 AM, David G. Smith PE PLS<[email protected]> wrote: > Seems "geo" got broadened out beyond our earth to planetary study long ago - > after all, scientists have been using the same approaches used in > earth-based geology, geophysics, geodesy, geography and other 'geo' fields > of study to extraterrestrial objects (wherever appropriate), such as moons, > rocky planets, and so on for several decades now. Rather than invent new > terminology, they stuck with the existing. > Can't have been that long ago as my degree is in Geophysics and Planetary Physics (well OK that was a while back) but there is also the UCLA center of the same name http://www.igpp.ucla.edu/ So my view would be there is no consensus. Ian _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
