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December 2000
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Year 2000: Lock kar diya jaye?
 The year 2000 will be remembered in GIS history for the landmark decision taken by the US government to remove the Selective Availability (SA) restrictions from the GPS, which improved the GPS accuracy, manifold. The decision was mainly prompted by the fact that the civilian companies had already discovered clever ways to effectively sidestep SA. The decision has flagged off a new era in the GPS technology as far as the accuracy is concerned.
This year, the most detailed 3D data ever was generated from the Shuttle Endeavour. The data obtained was 30 times better than anything we had previously.
While 1 metre space data continued to revolutionise the overall GIS industry during the year, countries such as China, India, Korea, Pakistan, etc. felt the pinch of IKONOS imageries when some of the images displaying their military establishment were put on the web by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS). Meanwhile, attempts to launch similar satellites by the competitors of Space Imaging failed… again.
The year also marked the launch of new technology product in Mobile Mapping and Location Based Services (LBS). Despite the initially associated hype, it was realised that there is still a long way to go.
In India, e-governance became a term in vogue and many more states in India became impatient to join the IT bandwagon. The Department of Science and Technology started reviewing the Map Restriction Policy. Also the National Geographic Data Infrastructure for India came under consideration.
The year 2000 witnessed the demise of much created hype of Internet boom, yet it did give the much-needed boost to the concept of Internet GIS. It will also be recalled as the year when India joined the exclusive group of countries to have cyber laws. On one hand we had the Convergence Bill being polished and on the other we had choking bandwidth.
The Year 2001.
Will it be e-commerce or m-commerce? Will it be e-business or no-business? Will it be de-restriction or e-restrictions? Or G-restrictions (geographic data restrictions)? Who knows?
Do you?
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