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Monday, March 21st, 2016

Govt Plans Law on What Can be Seen in India from Skies

The Centre is drafting a law to regulate data and high resolution images collected from the skies and shared through applications such as Google Earth, a move aimed at securing strategic installations from enemy eyes. Read More...

Monday, March 21st, 2016

Ministry of Railways and ISRO Signed MoU for Remote Sensing and GIS Technologies

The Ministry of Railways and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on 17 March 2016 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) regarding Effective Use of Space Technology in Remote Sensing and Graphic Information System (GIS) based Governance Application...

Monday, March 21st, 2016

NDDB Wins India Geospatial Excellence Award

Anand-headquartered National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) was recently awarded the India geospatial excellence award in the annual Geosmart India 2016 conference of the geo-spatial /GIS industry at the India Expo Centre at Greater Noida. Read More at...

Monday, March 21st, 2016

Japanese Mapping Project Records Last Movements of 2011 Tsunami Victims

An innovative mapping project tracks the last moments of the victims of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Read More at Global Voices

Wednesday, March 16th, 2016

Hemisphere GNSS Debuts S321 GNSS Survey Smart Antenna

SCOTTSDALE, AZ, USA – March 16, 2016 – Today, Hemisphere GNSS announces the release of S321, their next-generation multi-frequency, multi-GNSS survey smart antenna. The all-new S321 combines Hemisphere’s Athena™and Atlas technologies along with a completely new web...

Tuesday, March 15th, 2016

Esri India Launches ‘mApp Your Way 2016’

With a view to provide a platform to the institutes and students to showcase their skills and capabilities in the GIS technology, a Geographic Information System (GIS) Software & Solutions provider,  Esri India, has announced the second...

Monday, March 14th, 2016

Mapping the Consumption of Milk and Meat in India

Milk drinking is pronounced in northwest India where the vast majority of people are lactose tolerant. In non-milk-drinking northeastern India, the lack of protein in the diet is generally made up by the consumption of meat, eggs...

Monday, March 14th, 2016

Map Making is Laborious, It Took a Decade to Map India, says Rashmi Verma, Co-Founder, MapmyIndia

It ensures you reach your destination and know how to get there with its GPS navigation system and location-based apps. MapmyIndia, an online digital map platform that enables GPS navigation, tracking, location-based apps and GIS Solutions got...

Friday, March 11th, 2016

Not Waiting for Google, an Indonesian Startup Has its Own Project Loon

At Indonesia’s Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), a team of former students is working on an idea to beat Google at its own game. Google’s Project Loon plans to introduce a fleet of high-altitude balloons to the...

Friday, March 11th, 2016

UT Admn to Prepare GIS-Based Master Plan for Land Development

Ramkrishan Upadhyay Chandigarh, March 7 Deciding on land use and planning is set to become easier with the Department of Urban Planning of the Chandigarh Administration planing to prepare the city's master plan using the geographical information...