19th October 2009 Vol 5 Issue 40   
 Top Stories  New Products Article Blog Buster Headlines Events

Top Stories
The personal navigation device (PND) market is showing signs of maturity as price points decline sharply, consolidation occurs, and shipment growth slows, reports In-Stat http://www.in-stat.com...

Google took additional steps to let users crowdsource its Google Maps application, allowing U.S. users to point out gaps in Google Maps coverage. When users search and scan map results, they will see a "report a problem" link on the bottom right of the map, or by right-clicking on the map itself...
  Image of the Week
  Map of Future
   New Products, Launches and Releases
OnPoint 6.3.1 released
Sygic Mobile Maps GPS navigation
CSR’s GPS location processor
Course Mapper GPS for golf course management
Bing Maps 3D introduced
PC*MILER Navigator updated
Online Community for GITA members’ launches
  Article
Urban Spatial Growth Analysis of Khulna City

Md. Rejaur Rahman
Coordinator & Urban Planner
Asian Disaster Preparedness Center
Dhaka
  Blog Buster
Geospatial Technology Isn’t Dying Anytime Soon

With the ever changing of technology, there has been a lot that has come and gone with some technologies sticking around.

Why We Need Paper Maps

For map lovers, maps are works of information and art, things of beauty and imagination. One of my “excuses” for not reading fiction is that I fantasize by studying maps; I imagine “being there.” I become nostalgic when I retrace my past drives, walks, train rides, and flights.
    Global Headlines
Asia
US scientists to map Ganga stretch in Bihar, India
SGS to map Yemen boundaries
Rolta Asia Pacific, AAMHatch partner to provide oblique imagery
Africa
Africa’s soil to be digitally mapped
Australia and Oceania
Australian 3D cities available from Whereis
Americas
O2, iTraffic to bring live traffic mapping to mobile phones
OS to use lasers to create 3D maps
Publisher using mapping technology to highlight online news
NAVTEQ increases3D visual content for Brazil
Lancaster streets on Google map
RTS to map routes with Google's transit planner
Philadelphia Police meets mission demands with GIS
Europe
Bluesky to map UK industrial re-development
Orbster new GPS game
Appointments, Acquisitions and Contracts
Google maps switched from Tele Atlas data in US
Three acquisitions and a Collaboration – announced during Be Inspired
U.S. Army awards $2 million contract to OSI Geospatial
ERDAS announces business partnership with Observera
DMTI appoints Daniel Hepp to Director of Professional Services
Training and Events
Bentley Systems celebrates quarter century
Bentley’s Be Inspired - Infrastructure best practices symposium
CIST wins national surveying & mapping awards
GIS software training by ESRI
  Events
GEOMATICS 2009
Quebec, Canada
21 - 22 October 2009

India R & D 2009 - Geospatial Technologies for Utilities & Infrastructure
Delhi, India
22 - 23 October 2009

Young Earth-Scientists Congress 2009
Beijing, China
25 - 28 October 2009
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