150 Editions & Beyond January 2010 Vol. 14 Issue 1 Past Volumes REGULAR FEATURES EditorSpeak POLICY PICK Of geospatial data policies and NSDI Prithviraj Chavan Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences, Government of India PAST PERFECT From baby steps to giant strides Bhanu Rekha Mapping the best Deepali Roy Readers Reflect Deepali Roy CEO SPEAK We encourage trying the untried Greg Bentley Bentley Systems Inc. Fostering innovation is critical Juergen Dold Hexagon Innoation with relevance is the key K K Singh Rolta India Ltd. Market is ready for very high resolutions Matt O’Connell GeoEye Solutions are more important than products Steve Berglund Trimble Ease of use will drive demand Jill Smith DigitalGlobe Info centric approach is need of the hour K R Sridhara Murthi Antrix Corporation Limited NMOs Should meet customer needs Vanessa Lawrence CB Ordnance Survey, UK Build an ecosystem of innovation BVR Mohan Reddy Infotech Enterprises User satisfication is our mission Super Wang SuperGeo Location + Connectivity is the key Kanwar Chadha SiRF Technology Inc. We believe in building local content Stanley NG MapKing BIZ BEAT Stakeholders are an extension of us LG. (Jake) Jenkins Fugro EarthData Inc. CROSS COMMUNITY RULES GIS in Grassroots Social Movement Peter Ndunda GIS in Political Science Shanker Satyanath Out from lab on land, Geospatial is for all Prof YS Rajan Looking beyond earth-bound orbits A.S.Kiran Kumar FUTURE PERFECT GIS: A tool or science David J. Maguire GIS – At the core of development Dr Roger F Tomlinson Managing Earth System Geospatially Dr. Shailesh Nayak The creative destruction of GIS Ed Parsons Demand driving image processing Bradley Skelton Changing role of geospatial associations Prof. William Cartwright How to make India think spatially Prof. V S Ramamurthy INPE: Focus on social benefits of space Gilberto Câmara Symbiosis of GIS and Imagery Lawrie Jordan Towards a Geoinformation Society Prof. Dr. Josef Strobl Everything is somewhere infrastructure is everywhere Robert M. Samborski Trends in geospatial standards Mark Reichardt About GIS Development Editorial Profile Circulation Readership Profile Editorial Guideline Advertisers Profile Advertisers Guideline Editorial Schedule Subscription Form Editorial Contact