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boundaries

Monday, December 26th, 2011

Mumbai Will Have New CRZ Boundaries from 2013

The civic body will soon redraw city's map to help finalise the coastal regulation zones (CRZ). The exercise will include marking high tide and low tide lines on seashores and boundaries for gaothans and koliwadas. In January,...

Thursday, December 8th, 2011

Custom Topographic Vector Data Extraction

GIS data is being implemented in hundreds of ways by dozens of industries. Having the necessary data inputs is fundamental to performing tasks successfully and accurately. As most GIS users can attest to, obtaining geographic data in foreign...

Thursday, September 15th, 2011

Seabed Mapping and Surveying in Asia

Earlier this week, China announced that it will increase it's level of seabed mapping and surveying. These operations aim to describe seabed geology, water depths and the location of features and objects. Surveying of the waters and...

Thursday, July 21st, 2011

Mapping Boundaries: Korea – Sudan – Thailand – Cambodia

With the recent announcement of the creation of the new country South Sudan, attention turned toward delineating the offical boundaries of the country. But was the task as easy as it sounded?  A group consisting of cartographers,...

Monday, April 16th, 2007

Mapping the Indonesia-Singapore Border

It seems that tension is building between Indonesia and Singapore. The major cause for concern is the issue of the maritime boundaries between the two neighbouring states, following coastal reclamation by Singapore. It has raised questions...