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India Google Earth Competitor

posted by lxnyce on Friday May 23, @11:34AM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the yet-another-one dept.
One of my colleagues sent notice of a new Google Earth competitor. Here is a snippet from the article : "Kolkata: Adding a feather to its cap, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch its own satellite imagery on the Internet six months from now, rivalling popular mapping service Google Earth. "

To read the full article, please visit the link above.
Update: All Points Blog is running the same story, so head on over there as well to see the community feedback.

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