3rd August 2009 Vol 5 Issue 30   
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Rocket Science - outsourced

Since the late 80' India has slowly but surely come up as an outsourcing destination for US and European consortium. The data conversion sweat shops are the geospatial equivalents of call centers where low cost but efficient delivery of jobs is guaranteed. It has been an issue of serious concern and debate among the Indian geospatial academia as to the direction in which the career of our graduates (and sometimes post-graduates) is moving in. The release of indigenous products like IGiS is some comfort though.

In parallel mode since the late 80' was the steady progress of ISRO with its reliable satellite launch technology which has succeeded to a stage where they started a commercial arm to sell their wares - both data and technology to developing countries. And now, ISRO will launch satellites for the US! - or do we look at it as yet another outsourced job...

  Hrishikesh Samant
hrishikesh@gisdevelopment.net

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Dubbed “the ultimate book about our world”, the luxurious, limited edition Earth is hand-bound in leather with gilded edges and silver-plated corners. The atlas, (the largest world atlas ever produced), and its case together weigh 30kg. This limited edition, leather bound World Atlas published by Millennium House was distributed by Global Mapping in the UK where only 200 copies were allocated for sale at a price of £2,400 each...
India will be able to launch smaller satellites for United States into space by indigenously developed rockets at one third of the cost charged by American firms. Heavy satellites will be launched on a case to case basis...
  Articles
GIS & Govt Role in Public Systems

Dr. Srichand Busi
GIS Officer, Business & Information Branch, Crown Division, Department of Lands, Newcastle

Of road blocks and building blocks

Olajide Kufoniyi
Secretary General, African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment (AARSE)
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geothought: How 'neogeography' is rapidly moving into the 'GIS' space
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   New Products, Launches and Releases
SOKKIA Singapore - new products GYRO STATIONS and 3D STATION
ERDAS releases IMAGINE SAR Interferometry
MrSID Generation 4 Decode SDK released
CSR debuts SiRFstarIV location-aware architecture
Web mapping APIs from ESRI
Scanpoint Geomatics, ISRO launches IGiS
Maponics to release Neighborhood Classification Schema
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Asia
Mopping floors to mapping India
New Geocentric Datum launched
DubaiSat-1launched
Maps to help manage climate change in Mekong
Ajman Streets to get new names and numbers
GIS to keep an eye on govt land, industries
Digital system to predict fishing zones
Americas
GIS based project on National Wildlife Refuge
Ulteig awarded for use of GIS
Europe
19th-century historical maps of Scotland online
UK-DMC2 and Deimos-1 launched
Appointments, Acquisitions and Contracts
Sokkia Singapore, Infycons Creative partner for data solution
Randall J. Scherago is GeoEye VP of Investor Relations
Education, Training and Events
ESRI (UK) to put GIS in every secondary school
amLibrary for Colleges and Universities
ASPRS - first certified photogrammetrist
'Use geospatial technologies to curb non-state actors of terror’- GeoIntelligence India
  Events
Workshop on Fundamental Techniques of GIS and Remote Sensing
Vadodara , Gujarat , India
7- 13 August 2009

The 17th International Conference on Geoinformatics
VA 22023 , United States
12- 14 August 2009

Map Asia 2009
Singapore
18- 20 August 2009


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