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Galileo sat-nav contest gets underway
An industry group is attempting to drum up interest in the European Galileo satellite positioning system with a contest featuring £435,000 in prizes. The 2010 Competition looks to kick-start commercial exploitation of the Galileo system and has a …

TerraGo Publisher for GeoMedia version 5 software gives Intergraph GeoMedia customers the capability to publish complex maps and images as highly portable and interactive GeoPDF files for easy dissemination and use by field personnel.

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The Department of Land Resources (DoLR), Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India, has prepared a preliminary draft of the Land Titling Bill. The Bill hopes to usher into the country the system of Conclusive Property Titles with title guarantee and indemnification against loss due to incorrect title entries by the Government, instead of the …

u-blox is delivering mass production volumes of its AMY GPS and LEON GSM modules to Taiwan-based Helioversal Technology. The company has designed the modules into their miniBee GPS Tracker, a compact unit providing real-time tracking and logging of global position.
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Leica V-LUX 20, a 12.1 megapixel digital compact camera with a 12x optical zoom lens and built-in GPS. It is the first Leica camera to feature GPS tagging.
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TomTom GO Live 1000 with new software will bring HD traffic and real-time speedcam information to 16 European countries (including roaming) and the rest of the connected services – weather, local search, etc. – to 33 countries.
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TeleNav and Sendum released Sendum PT200 tracking device for Sprint wireless enterprise customers using the TeleNav Asset Tracker platform. The device provides highly accurate location information allowing TeleNav Asset Tracker users to monitor the real-time location of assets, such as high-value packages, cargo or equipment, using a secure, Webbased portal.
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Pitney Bowes Business Insight announced MapInfo(R) Stratus(TM), a Software as a Service (SaaS)-based solution for publishing and sharing location-based data and services. It is a Web-based solution that allows customers to push maps and data created in a desktop application, such as MapInfo Professional(R), to a cloud-based interactive mapping environment.
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More than 1,600 forest officers participated in the four-day long census of Asiatic lions at Gir, Gujarat. For the first time, GPS and GIS were used and headcount was done instead of tracking pugmarks, as was the case earlier.

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In the first of its kind initiative in Pune, India the state government has started tracking kerosene oil tankers with the help of GPS to keep a check on black marketing. The system has been installed in the kerosene tankers that get oil from depots of oil companies. The movement of tankers is tracked from …