
Despite the good performance of GPS, there are more than a few GNSS vulnerabilities and threats. Categorisation into unintentional and intentional is sometimes done to aid understanding. Unintentional disruptions include natural phenomena such as high levels of ionospheric disturbance and solar flares, as well as man-made phenomena including system errors (satellite or signal), and unwanted radio frequency transmissions (TV, microwave communications, radar, …).

Replacing the horizontal datum of a country is a complicated and difficult project. The decision to embark on such a “revolutionary” move should only be taken after in-depth studies to identify compelling reasons for such replacement. Here, we comment on the article by Tahir et al. published in the September 2011 issue of Coordinates.

Innovation and progress are essential, and an imperative, but only if bourn of responsible actions. A recent battle between two of the pillars of innovation and progress; satellite-based positioning, and wireless communications represent such high stakes that some have been driven to advocate for irresponsible actions to support or rationalize their respective positions.

By definition, ‘spatial enablement in action’ means that we (governments) must make our spatial information “actionable”. That is, it must be used and leveraged beyond just for mapping. It must form the enduring fundamental authoritative spatial data layers of a nation, and do so in a way so that it is able to support evidence-based decision making for the many social, economic and environmental drivers challenges that face our Governments. It is incumbent on us doing so. Should we not do so, we seriously risk “spatial stagnation”, and have a rich resource of geoinformation that remains largely untapped and with significant unrealised potential.
April 2012
6th International Satellite Navigation Forum, 17-18 April, 2012,
Moscow, Russia, https://mycoordinates.org/the-6thinternational-satellite-navigation-forum/;
Interexpo Geo-Siberia, 17-19 April, 2012,
Novosibirsk, Russia, http://itcsib.ru/event/4-INTEREKSPO_GEO-SIBIR;

SuperGeo Technologies, the leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, released SuperSurv 3, supporting bilingual user interface, traditional Chinese and English, and global coordinate system. SuperSurv 3 is the mobile survey system that can be operated on Android mobile devices.
SuperSurv 3 mainly offers users with the convenience of data collection in field survey …

SuperGeo Technologies, the leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, recently cooperates with Asia Pacific Telecom which utilizes SuperGIS Server 3 to establish an intranet-based service platform to effectively manage and integrate various types of GIS resources.
Employing SuperGIS Server 3 as the core of the GIS platform and SQL Server 2008 as the …

SuperGeo Technologies, the leading global provider of complete GIS software and solutions, will release SuperGIS Spatial Analyst 3.0 by end of January, 2012. The newly-launched SuperGIS Spatial Analyst 3.0 offers a range of spatial modeling and analysis algorithms and a user-friendly interface to help users accomplish massive and complicated spatial analysis tasks.
With SuperGIS Spatial analyst …