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3. CONCLUSIONS 
Multidisciplinarity if the fate of geomaticians of tomorrow. 
Measurement, computation, and communication are necessary 
tasks people who deal with spatial information must perform all 
the time. The technology which simplifies certain automated 
tasks raises the challenge to both professionals and educators. 
Special attention must be paid to new, adding-value services 
spatial data management can provide to broad public. 
Traditional view of surveyors dealing only with demarcation of 
boundaries, laying out roads and buildings and abstract surfaces 
related to the shape of the Farth must be refurnished into 
brokers of spatial information. Geomaticians must be able to 
significantly take part in extracting knowledge from spatial 
information for specific purposes, collaborating with experts 
from other, numerous disciplines. Geomaticians should excel in 
geographical information science as the theoretic base for their 
professional work, and should be able to apply the theory in 
practice. This relationship between GISc and geomatics could 
resemble the relation between practical and higher geodesy in 
the past, but current situation is much different. There are no 
clear demarcation lines among various subdisciplines that make 
geodesy (in general sense) and geomatics. Knowledge of 
principles of all of these is essential. 
The future of complete profession depends only on skills of 
geomaticians to gain the confidence of society that decisions 
based on information provided by them are better for all 
citizens. In this sense, recent developments in Croatia are only 
the first steps in making the profession of geodesy and 
geomatics more attractive to young, bright people who are 
going to improve it over time. Creation of comparable 
educational standards throughout Europe shall contribute to the 
transparence of the evolution of flexible education in the 
discipline. Research goals are rapidly changing as well: 
measurement technology issues are more and more solved by 
private sector and the role of scientific institutions shall 
concentrate on bringing new, original idea in international 
cooperation. New applications like location based services, 
precise on-line navigation, automated mobile mapping, precise 
farming, demarcation of marine boundaries, pattern recognition 
from satellite images and alike will provide fertile ground both 
for research and interesting jobs in the future of geomatics. 
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