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Government auditors recommend French national mapping agency to make data sets freely available on the Web
The Institut Géographique National (IGN), the French national mapping agency, is being accused of hindering France's knowledge economy ...
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Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister praises technology developed by Malaysian Centre for Remote Sensing
"The technology will enable the gathering of data on species of flora and fauna as well as the volume of trees in our forests," he said...
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Researchers find solar flares can cause GPS receivers to fail
Strong solar flares cause GPS receivers to fail, Cornell University researchers have discovered. Because solar flares - larger-than-normal ...
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Computer mapping changing the whole world of cartography
Initially, cartographers had to rely on ground-survey data to generate data for maps. However, as technology progressed from hot-air ...
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WORLD THIS WEEK
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Intergraph takeover gets antitrust clearance
The U.S. antitrust agencies have granted early termination of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended...
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Earth observation service industry meets to map out its future
More than 120 representatives of the European and Canadian Earth Observation value-adding sector took part in the ‘eoVox Stakeholders Consultation...
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Global study reflects benefits of location intelligence to improve business processes
1,700 business executives participated in this international study to gauge the role that technology can play in delivering powerful, business-relevant...
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Map thief sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison
E. Forbes Smiley III, who admitted stealing nearly 100 rare antique maps, was sentenced Wednesday to 3 1/2 years in prison after one librarian described him as a "thief who assaulted history."…
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EDITORIAL
Photoshopping now comes with new and better basket of tools – the geo-spatial kind. Adobe Photoshop with the Geographic Imager has import and export capabilities in spatial raster formats, GCP transformation, reprojection, unrestricted mosaicing of multilayered images as a few of its recently added modules. The line between ‘off-the-shelf’ photo editing software and specialised IP for GIS is fast eroding. This will bring the larger community of ‘photo-editors’ into the mainstream of geo-spatial data processing.
The burning issue of over priced geospatial data generated through tax-payers money has again been raised – In France, it’s the government auditors who have entered the fray and have recommended that data for “public good” be available free on the internet. This is similar to the public interest litigation which forced the NASA to release all data collected using ‘Federal’ funding to the US citizens which resulted in a major boost to the research and academic work done in remote sensing and allied subjects in not just the U.S. but world over. Before the availability of free to use data from ‘Google Earth’ or ‘Wikimappia’ one must not forget the free ‘GeoData’ global coverage from NASA. Today, a quite a few countries have an archive of data lying in deep freeze. Let better sense prevail.
Dr. Hrishikesh Samant
hrishikesh@gisdevelopment.net
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CORPORATE
3001 Inc. acquires LandAir Mapping Inc.
3001 and LandAir have been experiencing a period of dynamic growth in the past few years, with major geospatial contract awards...
Tele Atlas expands Eastern European operations with Poland office openings
Tele Atlas officially inaugurated Tele Atlas Polska, the company’s Eastern European headquarters, with office openings in...
Jack Pellicci joins Intergraph as Senior Vice President-SG&I Division
Intergraph Corporation has announced that Brigadier General (Retired) Jack Pellicci will serve as Senior Vice President of Intergraph's...
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NEW PRODUCTS
Septentrio demonstrates first Galileo receiver providing position, velocity and time information
Septentrio had earlier in 2005 delivered the first Galileo receiver to ESA in the framework of the C0 phase of the Galileo Test User Segment...
MAPublisher 7.1 for Adobe Illustrator launched by Avenza
MAPublisher 7.1 is the latest version of this powerful mapmaking software used to produce high quality maps from GIS data...
BusinessMAP Financial now shipping
Packaged with data from ESRI and datasets specifically designed for the financial services industry by RPM Consulting...
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