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India has the capacity to capture the outsourcing opportunities in GIS market, says Kapil Sibal at Map World Forum
"Stating that the nascent domestic geographic information market had contributed to the creation of a new group of companies dealing with...
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India and Russia reach cooperation agreement on GLONASS
"Among joint projects I would like to mention agreements we have reached on cooperation in the creation of the GLONASS system, primarily the...
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US expresses concern over satellite-killing test by China
"Aviation Week & Space Technology, the first to report the test, cited space sources as saying a Chinese Feng Yun 1C polar orbit weather satellite...
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Space scientists evaluating Moon as a platform for watching Earth
"A general Earth Observatory on the Moon would be of considerable value. This Earth Observatory would have specific technological and energy...
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WORLD THIS WEEK
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 German port city to become Google Earth's first 3D city
Expanding its mapping service into the third dimension is high priority for Google. "We want to develop the ultimate virtual globe," said Keuchel....
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Companies adopting satellite-imaging technology to 'astro-tise'
GeoEye spokesman Mark Brender calls "astro-tising" projects like KFC's "a creative way to use space-based technology." GeoEye charged KFC about...
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3D GIS system for monitoring illegal constructions in India's capital city to be implemented fully by next year
Initially, the system is for monitoring illegal construction. It could be applied for crime surveillance and forecasting and even for activities like...
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Ordnance Survey improves positioning capabilities across London
The receivers will not only be compatible with the American Global Positioning System but also the Russian GLONASS network and Europe's...
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EDITORIAL
It was perhaps the first time (at least in Asia) when top geospatial leaders of the world got together under one roof to discuss and debate about the future of geospatial technology and its due contribution towards judicious management of earth resources, infrastructure development and maintenance, socio-economic development, and overall improvement in quality of life. Map World Forum, true to its name, offered a unique platform to meet, network, interact, share, discuss, and learn from and with fellow colleagues at local, regional, continental and global levels. It had enormous emphasis on extending cooperation at all levels, between and amongst professionals, professional societies, survey and mapping agencies, academic institutions, industry and above all its users.
‘The maps which are drawn everyday in air are the ones which never get drawn… said Prof. Michael Blakemore addressing an audience of students in Map World Forum. Referring to the ways in which we convey directions when asked by a passer-by – these are the most common maps we draw. The need of such maps will never cease, might be we will have an application in the near future, which projects an holographic map of the neighbourhood from a tiny handheld device, but the directions to the nearest watering hole may still be asked from a passer-by who waves his index finger through the shimmering holographic map to show you the location.
Astro-tise – a word that is still to find its place in wikipedia. Astro-tise literally means advertisements seen from space and is the latest business that high resolution imaging companies like Digital Globe and GeoEye may make mullah from. The text seen in the google earth image is not really an astro-tise but more of a century old walking path in a municipal garden in Mumbai tracing out the letters B M G for Bombay (the former name for Mumbai City) Municipal Garden - little would the gardener have known that his handiwork will one day be a ‘space-mark’. These will become the man-made indelible place marks in virtual globes and the recent ad campaign by KFC in this domain may pale into insignificance with new creative ideas- hopefully none should be as drastic as cutting down huge tracts of forests to depict some company logo. The makers of crop-signs will have a new business opportunity where satellite flyby times will decide their working hours…
Dr. Hrishikesh Samant
hrishikesh@gisdevelopment.net
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CORPORATE
GITA announces publication of 2006 Geospatial Technology Report
“The report also includes charts illustrating the manner in which various technology trends are developing, with up to six years of...
NATO awards GIS data preparation contract to TENET with support from Galdos and IIC
"Furthermore, the project includes the conversion of many different data formats, including for example S-57/AML, VMap and DAFIF together with a...
Infoterra to provide technical assistance to the Vietnam Land Administration Project – Phase 1
MoNRE, formed by the incorporation of several former government departments, has responsibility for the management of land, water and...
German cities select land management solution from AED-SICAD
The four large cities with altogether more than 1.4 million inhabitants are going to introduce the new “Official Real Estate Cadastre Information...
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NEW PRODUCTS
 Spot Image to provide 2.5 meter resolution imagery for Google Earth
"This cooperation with Google is a great opportunity to enlarge the community of people who enjoy the images taken by the SPOT satellites...
Autodesk unveils latest preview of Autodesk Impression software
"Incorporating the experiences of more than 10,000 users, Autodesk, Inc. has unveiled the latest preview of Autodesk Impression software...
GeoEye's next-generation satellite reaches major milestone
However, GeoEye believes it is possible that integration and testing may not be concluded in time to support a launch this spring for which it is currently scheduled. As a result of this and the busy Delta II launch
IDELIX releases LookLOCAL beta 2
IDELIX Software Inc. has announced the release of LookLOCAL beta 2, one of the most comprehensive public online mapping sites available on the Web. New features in this release include access to a comprehensive network
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