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RMSI Parlays International Land Registry Experience for India Efforts

India-based RMSI Private Limited recently delivered on phase two of Ireland’s Property Registration Authority as one of several contractors on this large-scale land registry modernization effort. V1 editor Matt Ball connected with Vikrant Karandikar, head of the Land Information Management Business at RMSI about the Ireland property registration project as well as the company’s capacity and future focus.

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Surveying and the Digital Earth

The Digital Earth Symposium comes to Perth, Australia in 2011. Along with this event comes continued discussion on topics related to living in a digital world. Already we are experiencing many of the elements of a digital world from geospatial Web Services to innovations in surveying related technologies that originate the digital data pathway that weaves through the infrastructure we use daily.

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Queensland State Disaster Management Group

Whilst many parts of Queensland have commenced recovery efforts, other areas are bracing for more flooding. Queensland Police Service Assistant Commissioner Brett Pointing said that additional police have been sent to many areas affected by floods including Emerald, Rockhampton and Bundaberg.

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Cameroon Lays the Foundation Pillar for a National Geodetic Network

The foundation pillar of the National Reference Geodetic Network for land surveying was officially laid yesterday December 29, 2010. The Minister of State Property and Land Tenure, Jean-Baptist Beleoken officially laid the foundation or reference pillar of a land survey project that the government intends to carry out in the next six years. The project, sources say, will significantly solve land boundary disputes in the country.

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Beijing Enhances Public Transit with New Subway Lines

Beijing opened five new subway lines on Thursday, an urban planning show of force highlighting the investment the city has thrown behind public transport to curb its notorious air pollution and traffic congestion. Costing nearly 61 billion yuan, the newly constructed lines – most connecting the distant and dusty suburbs to the city centre – bring Beijing's subway network to 336km.

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Russian Officials Punished for Botched Satellite Launch

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has formally reprimanded the chief of his country's national space agency and fired two other high-ranking space officials over the loss of three state-of-the-art navigation satellites in a botched rocket launch earlier this month. The decision, announced by the Kremlin on Wednesday, comes after an investigation into the Dec. 5 launch failure of a Russian-built Proton rocket carrying three new Glonass-M navigation satellites.

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ISRO to Get an Exclusive Ground Station

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will have an exclusive ground station in Hyderabad to collect and relay remote sensing data from multiple low-earth orbit satellites to customers all over the world. The exclusive ground station will be designed and built at a cost of `40 crore to supply 1,000 products and remote sensing information and maps within 12 hours directly to the end users and customers in India and neighbouring countries.

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India Plans to Launch 30 Satellites in Next Decade

India is mulling the launch of at least 30 earth observation satellites in the next decade, a senior official at the Department of Space (DoS) said on Tuesday. In a plan already drawn up for the next ten years, Indian Space Research Organisation would launch a series of Resourcesat, Cartosat, ocean and atmospheric satellites. This would include Cartosat-3 with 30 cm resolution.

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GIS Technology To Identify All Properties In BBMP Limits

The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has for the last two years, been in the process of conducting a massive exercise to map the 13.87 lakh properties in the 198 wards in the city. Geographical Information System (GIS) has proven to be an effective tool for analysing and displaying thematic maps of all the roads for proper evaluation and correction of zones.

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New Products

A&A Solution Days Event Introduces Vectorworks 2011 to Japan

Held in Tokyo, the event featured presentations by Nemetschek Vectorworks CEO Sean Flaherty and industry experts, including award-winning architect Junya Ishigami. The first day focused on architecture and BIM, and the second day focused on design and rendering. The presentations were also streamed live from A&A’s website. Kazuko Uchida, president of A&A, was very happy with the event.

NZ NationalMap3

An intelligent digital data map, NationalMap3 allows organizations to leverage their spatial information to make better business and operational decisions. By taking advantage of location, a whole new understanding of data will emerge.

Traffic Flow and Congestion Information Launched for New Zealand

The AA has launched New Zealand's leading traffic flow and congestion information service. The service provides motorists with information on traffic flows and congestion for all state highways and arterial roads across New Zealand. It is updated every five minutes using data collected from thousands of vehicles around the country.

SuperGIS Server 3 Supports to Publish High-performance GIS Websites

In this white paper, the method and the procedure of the test are clearly described. Each test result gets the detailed description to help readers understand why the result goes in this way, and could be acted as the reference for the enterprises when they are creating the SuperGIS Server 3 Websites. The map caching mechanism is built-in the Ultra and Flex websites of SuperGIS Server 3.

ESA Unveils Latest Map of World’s Land Cover

ESA’s 2009 global land cover map has been released and is now available to the public online from the ‘GlobCover’ website. GlobCover 2009 proves the sharpest possible global land cover map can be created within a year. The map was produced using 12 months of data from Envisat’s Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer at a resolution of 300 m.

Airtel Launches GPS to Help Track Bangladeshi Fishing Boats

India's Bharti Airtel Limited, which has acquired 70 percent stake in Bangladesh's Warid Telecom, has launched a GPS-based vessel locating service to enable the country's fishermen communities to track their fishing boats. This service is in line with the promise of taking mobile telephony to Bangladesh's rural areas and its long coastline on the Bay of Bengal that is prone to cyclone and other calamities.

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