November 2006
Vol. 10 Issue 11
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DEPARTMENTS
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Standardisation: Needed for Evolving Technologies
Arup Dasgupta
Geospatial data domain is such an area where standards play a pivotal role and will continue to play such roles as technologies are getting evolved and being adopted...
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Development of National Geospatial Metadata Standard for Thailand
Chanin Tinnachote, Tanya Teerasarn
Different Geo-spatial datasets can possess very diverse
characteristics. The paper
portrays the result of a study
on users' opinion about their requirements and readiness for implementing metadata items specified in ISO19115.
- Standards Profiles - Making Standards More Interoperable and Less Complex
Sam Bacharach
The article explores some of the approved and proposed GML profiles and highlights how
they might be used to enhance interoperability of geospatial data in geographic and non-geographic technology challenges...
- Does urban planning ensure a better local environment?
Ayon Kumar Tarafdar
The notion of urban planning is well established in terms of theories, action and profession. However, there has been a long debate on whether 'development', which is an outcome of planning, leads to a better living 'environment' or otherwise...
- GeoICT for Governance: Will Society benefit?
Sjaak J J Beerens
State, Private and Civil society are the three pillars of the governance, whose interaction among themselves is aimed at mitigating in quality at large. GeoICT is a tool which helps governance in identifying spatio-temporal changes and ever increasing
thematic complexities...
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