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Galileo development stalled over profitability questions
"The original timetable projected the system to be fully in place by 2010, but Barrot's spokesman said it would not be ready until 2011, adding that the timetable was constantly being pushed back...
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Remote Sensing market to be nearly $10 Billion by 2012
"Global market expenditures for remote sensing products was more than $7 billion in 2006 and will reach almost $7.3 billion in 2007. At a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.3%, the market will grow to more than $9.9 billion by 2012...
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Bentley Systems, Inc. becomes principal member of OGC
"This membership will give the chance for Bentley Systems to apply their expertise in advancing the cause of standardization...
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Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging to deliver Mobile Enterprise Asset Management capability with Acquis
"Acquis extends the interactive application capability by eliminating the need for expensive post data processing and provides capability to choose, store, query and update asset maintenance information in a disconnected mode and synchronize to the database at a later point in time...
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WORLD THIS WEEK
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Indonesian Agency offers disaster-free land map service
It is hoped that the service will help identify suitable, disaster-free locations for businesses, as well as for evacuation purposes when disasters hit...
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Spatial Information System for Reconstruction Monitoring in Sri Lanka
The objective of the System is to provide large scale maps to serve as information infrastructure base for reconstruction oriented application development...
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MapGuide Open Source now a full fledged OSGeo project
"MapGuide Open Source has graduated into a full fledged OSGeo project...
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City of San Francisco plots its urban forest using open source mapping technology
Urban Forest Mapping System will serve as a central dynamic resource where San Francisco residents, community groups and city employees can update and share information...
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Efficiency gains strengthen UK's national road network data
The MasterMap Integrated Transport Network (ITN) has more than 740,000 named roads in the ITN Layer with 99.21% of road links present (up 0.39% from last year)...
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EDITORIAL
The Topcon GR-3 is the latest offering to the surveying and LBS community. Its 72 universal channels beat the u-Blox 5, fifty channel, GPS plus Galileo capability ready chip by offering the GLONASS receiving capability and a UHF digital radio too. Topcon also claims that the the receiver is designed keeping the future satellite launches in mind. In the present circumstances I would call this 'over kill'. The stalling of the Galileo program due to profitability issues has hit the headlines this week. The blame game is on with Mr. J Barrot, the EU's Transport Commissioner requesting a mandate to study “reasonable alternatives” to the current situation. The eight company Galileo consortium is sure to feel the heat. GPS chips may have 'surplus' channels than used ones if the Galileo program takes a dive. Might be, many of us will continue being satisfied using the old faithful 'low end' GPS units we bought in the summer of 06.
'Disaster-free land', is the buzz word in Indonesia. This beautiful tropical country, has had a spate of natural calamities in the last couple of years, the flooding in Jakarta being the latest. Mapping the terrain for calculating its potential to be 'disaster prone' is an application which many a times uses techniques like 'weights of evidence', 'information value', 'conditional probability' etc. The result from every modelling method has subtle differences. It would be interesting to know how real-estate developers in Indonesia will go about using these 'disaster-free' plots of land – if such really exist anywhere.
 Dr. Hrishikesh Samant
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CORPORATE
Rolta announces Ben Eazzetta as new President of International Operations
"Prior to joining Rolta, Ben was President of Intergraph’s SG&I division in Huntsville, Alabama, USA. He was responsible for all aspects of global sales, marketing, delivery and business development... 
New Zealand's AA buys GeoSmart
New Zealand Automobile Association Acquires geospatial solutions and in-car navigation technology provider GeoSmart...
ABB joins Intergraph SmartPlant Alliance Program
The increased integration of ABB and Intergraph will provide better ways to improve overall engineering efficiency and productivity for their customers...
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NEW PRODUCTS
Cadcorp announces integrated Pictometry image viewing facility for Cadcorp GIS
Pictometry provides an instantly available library of high-resolution i.e., 15cm imagery, with every feature in the built and natural environment imaged from all four points of the compass along with the vertical view...
ESRI releases ArcGIS for AutoCAD free download
“With ESRI's new version of ArcGIS, CAD users can easily connect to GIS enterprise data...
Topcon announces GNSS receiver with digital UHF radio design
"Topcon's GR-3 UHF radio design has 72 universal channels that can track up to 36 satellites simultaneously, all positioning satellites, generating any signal, any time, plus all signals from planned satellite launches in the foreseeable future...
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