EDITORIAL
One of the world’s largest gatherings of geo-spatially minded people took
place last week in San Diego. It was a festival of sorts where every thing
geo-spatial was discussed. The ESRI international user meet is an annual
event. It is prestigious for technology developers to have innovative shows
like Topcon's newest digital planetarium presentation – Celestial
Connections: Guiding GIS Solutions.
Doing away with the censor of strategic installations from Ordnance Survey
maps totally - is a "Setting Trend". Lets hope others follow and we have a
geospatial community where the ‘mind is without fear’ of being penalised for
digitising outdated topographical maps. Do we have an option – what
with the WorldView 1 sensor on its way to the launch pad, What would you
like to hide?
Dr. Hrishikesh Samant
hrishikesh@gisdevelopment.net
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ARTICLES OF THE WEEK
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Container Security with Geographic Information System
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Helmut Kraenzle
The challenge of facing the tremendous growth in containers entering and exiting ports exists worldwide. According to the DP World web site, in 2004, Dubai Ports handled a throughput of 6.42 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs)…
Location Based Services
Anamika Das and Dr. Satyaprakash
Unfortunately when talking about LBS, most think in terms of static user-initiated scenarios like finding the nearest taxi rank or getting a map proximate to the user's position. Although such applications of location awareness are indeed useful and can bring revenue to many service providers...
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 CORPORATE
Pictometry and Intergraph form marketing alliance
Pictometry International Corp., a provider of digital, aerial oblique imagery and measuring software systems, and Intergraph Corporation announced a marketing alliance on August 7...
Credent Technology is Intermap's distributor for SE Asia
Intermap Technologies Corp. has announced Credent Technology Asia as its new data distributor serving Southeast Asia. Credent Technology Asia is a...
Lagen Spatial is Australian distributor for MapText
MapText Inc. and spatial solutions provider Lagen Spatial have announced that Lagen will distribute MapText’s labeling solutions SmartLabel, Label-EZ and Label-Web, in Australia...
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NEW PRODUCTS
GSM-2 - The new member of the Topcon family
Also available are numerous options including a beacon receiver, Topcon Tools GIS post-processing office software, and various TopSURV field software programs...
LizardTech unveils GeoExpress 6.1
Additionally, GeoExpress 6.1 allows GML metadata to be added to JPEG 2000 imagery in conformity to the new Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) GMLJP2 standard...
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