Geographic information industry, as an emerging information industry supported by such geographic information technologies as geographic information system, remote sensing and navigation satellite system, is the fundamental resource of economic society’s development and the important component of national informatization construction. Data showed that geographic information industry had kept an average annual growth rate of 20 percent over recent years. Experts indicated that China’s geographic information industry had retained a trend of sharp uprising and stepped into a crucial period, although impacted by the international financial crisis.Read More