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Google offers live traffic maps on cell phones
Live traffic information for more than 30 cities in the United States will be as close as a commuter's mobile phone via the Google Maps for Mobile service...
Satellite images show sharp rise in UK’s temperatures and air pollution levels
Sensors in space have recorded the dramatic increases in land temperatures and air pollution as the UK swelters in record-breaking July heat...
Digitised database of India’s bio-resource now available
Called `Jeeva Sampada,' the first-ever digitised inventory of India's vast bio-resource provides data on 39,000 species and offers images, distribution maps and an interactive data retrieval system...
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ARTICLES OF THE WEEK
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CAD/GIS/BIM Integration through Standards
Sam Bacharach
Executive Director,
Outreach and Community Adoption,
Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.
A longstanding and ongoing issue in the geospatial community is the ability (or inability) to integrate CAD and GIS tools and data into a seamless workflow. We are beginning to get more satisfying answers to the two key questions: Can different software systems communicate to enable CAD/Geospatial integration?…
Perspective
 Arup Dasgupta
Honorary Advisor, GIS Development
Many years ago, in the early 80's, when we were just thinking of using a GIS a friend took me to visit a unit in the Gandhinagar Software Park, which was 'working on GIS for an overseas client'. I found that they were updating detailed maps of cities and towns created in popular CAD software. The details were mind boggling...
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CORPORATE
MapInfo reports third quarter revenue of $43.0M
Mark Cattini, President and Chief Executive Officer of MapInfo, stated “Enterprise organizations are increasingly realizing the significant ROI and business benefits associated with location intelligence solutions...
Research confirms geospatial technology spreading into new markets
The industry’s markets and opportunities are expanding with both new buyers and sellers in the market, led at the moment by Internet search and data providers...
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NEW PRODUCTS
GfK MACON publishes new 5-digit postal code map of the USA
GfK MACON has developed a new map with around 40,000 five-digit postal code areas for the USA for 2006. The map was carefully compared with the latest data from the various bureaus of statistics in the USA and with current orthophotography…
Survey of India introduces digital guide maps of Chennai city
The Survey of India, Tamil Nadu branch, is introducing digital guide maps of Chennai in the form of CDs. The digital maps score over the paper variety...
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Dr. Hrishikesh Samant
