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GIS-Trained Manpower Short in India
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on Tuesday January 31, @10:35AM
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All Points Blog links to a short Deccan Herald article about GIS-trained manpower woefully short in India. From the article: "“Though the GIS technology was evolved over 40 years ago, its presence in India is still in a nascent stage,” Mr Gowda said during the inauguration of a two-day State level seminar on ‘GIS and its applications’ at Government Arts College here recently." Meanwhile, Very Spatial links to a The Times of India article about the use of GIS and GPS for police operations in India.
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Directions Mag reports the state of global navigation satellite systems with a focus on India. From the article: "While many western countries are already in the saturation stage, India is still in the introductory stage. India has its own technology to launch its own satellites but it has not made an effort sufficient to create awareness about the use of GPS in day-to-day activities. [...] New satellite navigation systems - the European Union’s Galileo, Russia’s GLONASS, Japan’s Quasi-Zenith Satellite System, and China’s Twinstar - are going up. The speakers talked about the use of GNSS and of various augmentation systems in use and those which are being planned." There's also 6 India-related previous stories linked below.
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All Points Blog links to a Moneycontrol India article where open source geospatial software is mentioned. From the article: "There are opportunities for open source Geographic Information System (GIS) software. There has been some work with Geographic Resources Analysis Support System or GRASS, which is being used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing commonly used for urban planning and other land issues in India."
Industry: India's Digital Mapping and Governance
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Three articles regarding India and geospatial technologies. GeoPlace linked to a OWSA article named India's Knowledge Commission recommend setting up web portals, GIS mapping for e-governance. All Points Blog links to an Hindustan article on the consolidation and closure of the MP Geo-spatial Data Center and to a CNN-IBN article on a possible Indian Google Earth to curb crime. From this last article: "The project promises to open up new avenues for the prosecution in criminal cases. Cameras mounted on cars will soon be keeping a close watch on arson and riot-like situations and all the photographs recorded this way will later be used as evidence against the miscreants."
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All Points Blog links to a The Hindu article on the Indian president on cartography and law in India. From the related press release: "President A P J Abdul Kalam today suggested enactment of a law to govern the use of outer space and regulate the use of data acquired from remote sensing satellites, particularly of sensitive installations. [...] He said stereo satellite images, which are available for 90 per cent of the country, could also be used for better urban planning, cadastral level information of land and water resources. Suggesting six missions for cartographers, Kalam said a network of organisations and persons working in the field of mapping should provide inputs for the development of modern cartographic products required by national mission."
Application Domains: Opportunities and Challenges in Indian GIS Segment
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All Points Blog links to an article named "Opportunities and Challenges in Indian GIS Segment". From the article: "Having said that, there are several major challenges that the industry still faces:
1. GIS and remote sensing application software require high end computers with high end graphics cards etc, which at the moment are comparatively expensive in India. But this problem will cease to persist gradually as prices of hardware keep going down.
2. GIS awareness and education levels are still low in India. It has yet to proliferate fully in the formal technical education space (graduate degree programs, diploma's, etc), even though many universities and colleges have started teaching GIS in PG programs.
3. The last but the biggest constraint is the easy availability of spatial data. In India, most of the organizations that have adopted GIS are still spending a lot of money and time on building data. One of the reasons attributable to this is the disparity between the various systems from which the data has to move from one form to another before the final desired output is available. The second reason is very tight government control on spatial data acquisition and high cost of satellite and aerial data." I also included below a whole bunch of India-related geospatial news.
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