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| GIS Development Weekly |
25th
February 2008 VOL 4 Issue 7 |
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| Top Stories |
Having a map of the country usually means having a hand-held book with a street and road index, but now, a small Wellington business, Terralink, is busy producing the next generation of maps – a recorded, digital video map. The company is making a video of every street in New Zealand in other words a map of the nation from a car. For the street camera car to video every street in the country, it will travel 144,000 kilometres and will take about two years to complete... Watch Video
The Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Kerala, an institute under the State government, has announced the launch of the State’s first Active Web Geographical Information System (GIS) service in public domain using free and open source software technology.The site http://www.edugrid.ac.in/webgis/owebgis/# ,helps the visitor access State-wide dynamic weather information and one-week forecast updated every three hours. It provides thematic maps of Kerala and advanced fly-through on 3D topography.
New Products, Launches and Releases
 SDI Extension for ArcGIS
Abaco presents the new 3D LMIS
New Postal Code Maps for Australia and New Zealand
Cataloguing space images – solutions from ScanEx
GRASS 6.3.0RC5 released
Magellan Introduces Rugged, Entry-Level, Professional GIS and Mapping Solution
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| Image of the Week |
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| Audiocast |
News Cast
By Hrishikesh
Samant
This News Cast is 14.06 minutes long and contains news and discussions on the happenings in the geospatial domain.
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| Editorial |
GIS is in my blood...
The invasion of GI technologies reminds me of the sci-fi movie from the 60's - 'A fantastic Voyage'. Though, the GPS transponders placed in the prostate by the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance are much larger than the micron sized submarine - Proteus, the trend of today's GI technologies is obviousl pervasively invasive. The rather sceptical attitude I had about the title of a technical paper- 'GIS is in my blood' during the Map India 2005 conference is being forced to change. The recently released list of top 14 technological challenges for engineering in the 21st century by the NSF, will have GI as an integral part of the solutions - check where you can chip in...
 Dr.
Hrishikesh Samant
hrishikesh@gisdevelopment.net |
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| Blog Buster |
1. Microsoft researchers make me cry
It’s not often that I see software that really changes my world. It’s even rarer that I see software that I know will change the world my sons live in. I can count those times pretty easily....Robert Scoble works at PodTech.net
Digital Geography in a Web 2.0 World
By Ed Parsons
Google Earth, Maps, Sketchup etc don’t compete with the full functionality professional GIS or Architectural design packages, but they do allow anyone to create new information easily and importantly for this audience, ... |
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