Last week the big news for tech and location enthusiasts of India was the launch of WoNoBo. WoNoBo was quoted as an answer to Google’s Street View in India. While many of us know that our regulators created all sorts of trouble for Google, WoNoBo did not have to go through all that. In fact WoNoBo’s parent Genesys is a big name in Indian Geospatial domain and has the experience of working with Government agencies. This credibility would have certainly helped them in securing necessary permissions!
“For street view, the government, including the defence ministry and the
Survey of India, threw a lot of regulations at us. We painstakingly
fulfilled their requirements , including not taking pictures in
sensitive areas,”
The #HxGNLIVE keynote which concluded an hour ago marked the beginning of HxGN LIVE in a unique way. Unlike normal keynotes where CEO talks about some achievements and makes exciting announcements, this keynote proceeded on a different note. Hexagon President and CEO, Ola Rollen and other divisional Presidents took turns to talk. At times the divisional Presidents even spoke to each other on stage about leveraging each other’s technologies for providing better options to customers. A customer in Australia was interviewed live from the stage!
For the first time several keynotes and few sessions are being streamed live for the benefit of those who could not attend the conference in person. This is made possible through HxGN LIVE TV.
When you install PostGIS from the OpenGeo Suite [link] on Ubuntu, you might notice that PostGIS Shapefile and DBF loader is missing from pgAdmin III plugins. This post explains the steps to get the plugin to work:
The first thought a GIS Professional gets on seeing a GeoPDF map is how to
USGS Topo as GeoPDF
get it into GIS application. This particularly would be the case in US where USGS maps are all provided as high quality GeoPDFs and the analyst would want to derive maximum information from the maps.
A good way to get the map into a GIS application would be in the form of high resolution GeoTIFF. USGS National Map suggests using Global Mapper for the purpose [PDF]. When a similar requirement came to me I tried the operation with trial version of Global Mapper.
As Geo-folks are already aware, Intergraph Corporation released its Geospatial Portfolio 2013 earlier in December 2012. The release happens to be unique as Intergraph Geospatial 2013 is the first and only comprehensive solution
that connects all geospatial genres, integrating photogrammetry, remote
sensing, and GIS into a streamlined system and comes from a single vendor. Intergraph has aptly branded this release as United, Modern and Dynamic.
GeoMedia 2013 - Performance metrics with the new caching mechanism
