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Bangalore in India was the first city to get its own traffic information system (TIS) in June this year. It was built on the GIS platform by Mapunity. Hyderabad and Chennai followed suit, with the Chennai TIS being launched last week. Mapunity’s project allows cellphones to act as proxies for its users, whether they are on foot or in vehicles. The number of cellphones carrying Airtel’s SIM cards gets logged in Airtel’s towers which then denote the traffic movement.To track traffic movement at a granular level, Airtel has installed micro-towers at street junctions and along the roads that cover an area of 500 metres around them. The existing BTF towers do not provide such specific data and presently Bangalore has 150 such towers.Mapunity transforms such data to tell users of clogged routes, how to avoid them and how much time each route will take. This helps because people avoid the route and do not add on to a traffic jam.
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More than 9 out of 10 local authority schools will receive free maps, up 2% from last year, with nearly 700,000 children benefiting said Ordnance Survey's Director General and Chief Executive, Vanessa Lawrence, at a special House of Commons reception to celebrate the teaching and learning of geography... It means that 4.4 million maps will have been distributed since the initiative began in 2002. Dr Lawrence also added that “Schools are making innovative use of the maps and pupils are gaining real confidence in map reading, which will serve them well throughout their lives. Feedback from pupils, parents and teachers shows that the maps are an invaluable extra resource for classroom exercises, homework, projects and fieldwork”. Rita Gardner, Director of the Royal Geographical Society, said geography informed the social, economic and environmental processes that shape neighbourhood, regional and international development. As such, it was a vital subject involving issues around sustainability, diversity and climate change.
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The world map, created by German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller in 1507, is the first document to show a separate Western Hemisphere and label the Pacific Ocean as its own body of water. Before he drew the document, Waldseemüller had pored over notes from explorers Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci, as well as other unknown
Portuguese and Spanish sources, according to a statement from the Library of Congress.The map was rediscovered in 1901 after spending 400 years lost in the library of a German castle. In 2003 the US Library of Congress purchased the map for 10 million U.S. dollars from Germany's Prince Johannes Waldburg-Wolfegg. The library will exhibit the 12 sheets of the 4-by 8-foot document in its specialized display case starting December 13.
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AWhere Inc. announced this week that it is collaborating with the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), the Climate Systems Analysis Group and others, to develop a Climate Change Explorer (CCE) Tool for simplifying the delivery of climate data. The CCE Tool addresses these needs by packaging data access routines, guidance and customized analytical and visualization procedures that provide users with a sound analytical foundation from which to explore climate variables.
Global Mapper Software LLC announced the availability of Global Mapper v9.01. Major enhancement includes the ability to export ANY loaded data for use with Google Maps (not just Google earth). Also, ITT Visual Information announced a new release of ENVI 4.4 software for processing geospatial images.
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