Talk:Technical geography

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Short description: Study of using and creating tools to manage spatial information

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My impression, based on the number of publications, was that geographers were converging to "GIScience" as a preferred term. Non-geographers -- such as surveyors and geodesists and hydrographers --, seem to have their all preferences for umbrella term: geomatics, geoinformatics, etc. I don't think there's a clear winner yet. fgnievinski (talk) 05:18, 4 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello,

GIScience is certainly a term that is widely used in the literature. I have listed various other terms for are listed within the article and the debate around terminology is in the controversy section. Technical geography as a term predates most of the others being bounced around by a few centuries, and is used to divide the discipline by a few authoritative sources listed within the article. As stated in the article to address this

"The benefit of this wording is that it is consistent with the other two branches and clearly places the discipline within geography."

Semantically, the issue of terms is far from new, and there is no reason that multiple highly related terms can't coexist. GeogSage ^{(⚔Chat?⚔)} 05:34, 22 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Geography

geography means to learn about the earth 2405:D000:A117:C066:69A4:2A4F:58E9:46CD (talk) 14:28, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Geography is a discipline that focuses on studying and describing spatial phenomena on the Earth, yes. How is this related to this page? GeogSage ^{(⚔Chat?⚔)} 19:33, 4 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]