Official launch of eGeomate!

With great satisfaction Geofumadas officially launches the beta version of eGeomate for the public speaking NO HISPANA.

In essence, it is a version translated into English of Geofumadas, more of its own content that will be added not simultaneously. The CMS template is similar, it changes the name that is based on some terms that you will have known in time:

• The pseudonym g! That was born with Geofumadas, to summarize many things and the complicity of something of anonymity.
• Then the combination between what the content implies with geospatial emphasis and the word that implies a solution in the strategic game.
• Hence the indigo of painted cheeks of Geofumadas with a cloud in the back happens to be a pair of pieces of chess.

We'll see if time changes this initial design, as it happened with Geofumadas, but for now it's what we have and as Google says:  For that is Beta version.

Why eGeomate?

For almost 4 years, Geofumadas has established a learning community of users who interact between nested questions and answers at the rate of an average of 20 monthly entries. We have achieved a significant positioning in the Spanish-speaking public, complementing other spaces in the community, among which stand out classics that will never cease to have their place and some new ones that surprise us with the originality of content and subject matter discipline.

Almost six months ago we moved out of the original subdomain and began to dabble in social media gradually. For now in Twitter already outnumbered 500 followers, while Facebook has over 100 fans. Undoubtedly, in four years many things are learned and for some time I announced the intention of launching Geofumadas to users in a version translated into English.

The experience of having tried translation based on online services as Google Translator, In practice solves however the best results are usually when translating from English to other languages; Added to this Geofumadas contains a particularized language, full of contextual words that are still confused in the Spanish-speaking public.

So the best way we found was to make a particular translation, to what it is hoped that the Anglo-Saxons can understand from the original message of the post. For this, Nancy Godoy Cordero, from Peru has done a great job, trying to understand the mixture between the technological smoke, the mood of the writer and what the final reader could expect.

We admit it, it has not been that simple, many emails confirm that although we all believe we understand each other in Spanish, the contextual jargon is slightly distorted within a UTM zone, but it is perverted beyond 6 degrees of longitude and 4 degrees of latitude. So, to avoid complexity, we have finished explaining some terms at the bottom of the post and in many cases left “as is”, with the clarification of a slight ccs variant that users will end up understanding as “Said so in geofumadas, interpret what possibly means".

What audience is going Get well

This content is aimed at users beyond the Latin context, which in the case of Geofumadas have represented about 4%. It is understandable that the topics are still resources for users of CAD / GIS technologies, plus the aggregates of the tropical cycle and some web fashions. Deep down, we do nothing more than export experiences from our Hispanic context, to a more global medium that has very similar questions:

How do I do shape files in AutoCAD?

How under the Google Earth images?

How do I use CAD / GIS software that costs me less money?

How are level curves made in Civil 3D?

What will AutoCAD 2013 bring back?

We are aware that outside there are other technological alternatives and even other extreme points of view to the side that cannot make a page without the letter ñ. But we hope that the result of what we have learned in more than 1,000 posts over four years can be useful for a more global market.

The graph shows the comparison between eGeomate (top) and Geofumadas (bottom) users during the last month. Possibly the trend will change, but for now it can be seen that the countries from where the most visits are coming to Get well are:

• United States
• Canada
• United Kingdom
• Brazil
• India
• Philippines
• Australia
• Spain
• Germany
• Malaysia

Spain does not fail to call attention as a great multicultural market, although this only represents the 59% of visits, whereas in the case of Geofumadas the 87% comes from those 10 countries I talked about in a recent post. The expectation is more than exciting. At the beginning I was surprised by a wave of visits on the Manifold GIS issue, which seems to have managed to position itself in areas of the north of the United States and in Canada; In the rest, Civil3D, GPS and Total Stations stand out, which seem to be the themes that it will exploit Get well.

Whats Next

In principle, continue with the translation of contents, by now there is an 45% of the total already uploaded, in tune the Beta statement because many internal links must be aligned and some of the efforts to translate went in the best intention.

But finally, we launched it to start the work of SEO, A matter that InforSEO does in full. The other eGeomate disintegrated products will be mentioned as they mature.

We also launched the eGeomate Beta to give us time to think about creative ways to celebrate with users the fourth year of Geofumadas during the next month of June.

... I have ideas ... and I accept suggestions.

Go to eGeomate!