IED (Innovation Energy Development) launched the commercial version of GEOSIM. A software dedicated to planning the electrification of rural areas. With the help of GIS, GEOSIM 4.0 now offers an accurate assessment of investment costs at the planning phase. A series of summary reports have been produced which includes a detailed version wherein key indicators …

e-Governance Project for Panchayati Raj institutions (e-Panchayat) in India includes decentralised database and planning, budgeting and accounting, implementation and monitoring of central and state sector schemes, citizen-centric services, unique codes to Panchayats and Individuals and essential GIS based applications. This project will cost 450,000,000,000 INR in the span of three years. Under this project, Internet …

Haryana is one of the five states in India, selected under the major remote sensing and GIS application project entitled ‘Space-based Information Support for Decentralised Planning’ (SIS-DP) of  ISRO. The project would provide ICT (Information and communication technologies)-enabled geospatial platform involving local bodies to carry out developmental activities under the Panchayati Raj in a decentralised, …

Creative Force Maps announced the first royalty-free, vector map of Washington DC to include building footprints, property lines, and land use.  The digital map contains all building footprints and service alleys for 11 square miles in the heart of DC and, for maximum versatility, is available in Adobe Illustrator and PDF formats.
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The State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping (SBSM) will continue to promote 100 merit-based digital cities nationwide, which will rapidly push the construction and completion of the digital China geo-spatial framework. The digital city construction has made significant progress since its launch in 2006 and currently, 78 cities have been involved in the construction and …

From the vaults of the Asiatic Society of Mumbai founded in 1804, maps circa 18th Century – priceless, irreplaceable, hand-drawn and colourful original prints – have been disappearing.
Almost nothing remains of the entire set of maps that date back to 1803-04: they depict the expanse of Mumbai (then Bombay) in great detail when the first …

Minister Mah Bow Tan said Singapore’s land use planning for the next 10-15 years has to take into account new trends and emerging issues. Many of these issues are complex and may involve trade-offs between different objectives. He also launched a public consultation to seek public views on shaping Singapore’s physical landscape. The Urban Redevelopment …

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Leica Geosystems announces digitizer for LIDAR
Leica Geosystems announced the introduction of a full-waveform digitizer, WDM65, designed specifically for use with its ALS-series airborne LIDAR Systems. www.leica-geosystems.com
V9 of H2ONET released
MWH Soft announced the worldwide availability of H2ONET Generation V9 for AutoCAD® 2010. …

New Satellite Positioning Station in Central Vietnam
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has launched a
DGPS to receive round the clock positioning signals from the US satellite system in Vietnam’s central province of Quang Nam. It will be useful for the development of the seaborne economy and the management of natural resources and environment. http://newswire.bernama.com

Point Cloud CAD 2010 and FieldGenius 2010 by MicroSurvey
The Point Cloud CAD 2010 allows the individual to work with Point Cloud and LIDAR data with ease. It works with hundreds of millions of points with ease and the ability to create line work very quickly, surface models and contours directly from the Point Cloud. Built on MicroSurvey CAD 2010 platform it uses the same rendering program used in products like MicroStation and 3DStudio
and uses the Leica PCE engine.
FieldGenius 2010 has many new features added to improve the work flow which include several new improved Stakeout routines ,new blue tooth manager for improved instrument communication, powerful new offset tools, point patterns etc. It can be loaded onto many data collectors.