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China builds largest countrywide geographic information database
China has completed a 1:50000 database for the entire country. Lu Xinshe, Director-General, State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping said that this database is a national basic geographic information database that covers all of China with the largest scale and highest precision up to date.
Greenpeace makes effort to protect rainforests in PNG
Greenpeace and landowners in Papua New Guinea (PNG) recently launched a major international initiative in a bid to protect Asia Pacific's last remaining ancient rainforests by unveiling a Global Forest Rescue Station in a remote part of PNG's Western Province. Greenpeace volunteers from around the world will work alongside local landowners and eco-forestry trainers at the station, sited at Lake Murray in Western Province.
New maps by USGS highlight Bay Area Liquefaction Risk
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is releasing two new digital maps of the densely
populated central part of the San Francisco Bay region. These maps are designed
to give the first responders, as well as the general public, those responsible
for maintaining utilities and other lifelines, new and better tools.
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ARTICLE OF THE WEEK
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New perspectives for map updating
Michaël Tonon
Spot Image, France
For a long time, and often until now, the updating of topographic maps was an
analogue process requiring heavy aerial campaigns and time-consuming human processing.
After the digital revolution and the beginning of computer-assisted map processing,
geographic information entered a new era a few years ago. A number of mature
cartographic solutions have evolved in current times that update existing maps
rapidly and cheaply. This paper talks about how Spot Image and the French Mapping
Agency (IGN) are promoting, these cartographic solutions for map
updating.
Semantic Interoperability of Geographic Information
Sumit Sen
Institute for Geoinformatics (IFGI), Germany
Geographic Information (GI) is characterized by cross domain applicability and
the economic value of such information is linked to the wider usage of such information.
With increasing efforts to provide GI data and processing through web based services,
it has become essential to have a closer look at the term interoperability, its
various forms and the notion of semantic interoperability in particular. This
paper focuses on these issues that has helped to outline some major challenges
of semantic interoperability of GI.
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 CORPORATE
GIS Development starts operations in Malaysia
GIS Development has recently opened its Branch office in Kuala Lumpur to serve the entire market of the South East Asia and Pacific (SEAPAC) region. The opening of operations in Malaysia was a response to this growing need in the region for platforms of knowledge and experience sharing. The optimum location of KL, with its sound infrastructure and connectivity to almost all the countries of the SEAPAC region is an advantage that the new GIS Development office would tap upon.
NGA awards $24 million contract to DigitalGlobe
DigitalGlobe has been awarded a $24 million satellite imagery capacity contract modification by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. This ClearView contract enables the NGA to acquire additional commercial imagery from DigitalGlobe’s QuickBird’s high-resolution commercial imaging satellite.
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