« Geomatics is to Geospatial what Medicine is to Health »
The geospatial industry gathers all activities, products, services and stakeholders involved in geomatics but increasingly also involved in information technologies (IT), which take advantage of the ubiquitous spatial dimension in data and information (Where).
The definition of the word geomatics is now widely used and quite well defined. But geomatics is mostly known by insiders, people who work with the standard disciplines involved in data acquisition, processing, management and dissemination such as topography, cartography, geodesy, photogrammetry, remote sensing, GIS, and GPS.
Currently, the solutions (tangible or not) offered by the geospatial industry benefit to citizen/administration and client/enterprise relationships. They also help in the activities and operations of any organisation, active on a given territory, and help people at large in their travel, on the Web, etc.
« Industry Analysis & Strategic Orientation »
BALIZ is a geospatial industry analyst and provides strategic orientation (guidance and recommendations) to its clients on various matters such as geospatial business and technologies.
BALIZ is unique in the industry in the way that it offers exclusively counselling services, leaving to others the tasks of selling, producing, developing and integrating technologies, geodata and business processes.
BALIZ assists public or private organisations wishing to thrive on a better exploitation of geospatial solutions, whether it be implementation, integration or modernization of a geospatial solution.
BALIZ is an independent company and works for its clients in order that they can make informed decisions and take advantage of the geospatial dimension.
The seminar entitled “Review of 2007 in the Geospatial Industry” was held on December 20, 2007 at Auberge Saint-Antoine, in Québec City. The event attracted almost 50 participants from the academic, private and public sectors. Among the topics that were discussed, we can mention the major trends in the industry, convergence, and the adoption of geolocation based products and services by the consumer market.
BALIZ invites you to a seminar entitled "Une heure ICI : BILAN 2007 de l’industrie du géospatial", that will highlight and summarize the events that have marked the geospatial industry during the past year (Mapping, Geomatics, GPS, Interactive Web Mapping, Business Intelligence, etc.).
Following the previous blog entry entitled: "Are you LinkedIn ?", and our announcement that a special group had been created in LinkedIn so that French Speaking Geospatial Experts can identify themselves.
If you are a member of the popular networking site named LinkedIn, you might be interested in joining a new group that probably meets your interests and characteristics, i.e. you can speak French and you are involved in the geospatial industry.