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Download the Free Tag Reader App At INR 150 / US$ 15 Not for Sale Subscriber’s copy. : e c i r P YOUR GEOSPATIAL INDUSTRY MAGAZINE www.geospatialworld.net JULY 2012 VOL 02 ISSUE 12 ISSN 2277 - 3134 Ready for Take-off… with Hexagon Geosystems Innovative and market-leading imaging technologies Customers looking for dedicated solutions to generate for all airborne mapping applications. professional geospatial data and maps, to extract features and information as well as to create highly Hexagon Geosystems will continue to offer complete and accurate 3D environments can now choose from one innovative end-to-end solutions, including vendor the sensor solution that best fits their applica- New Leica ALS70 LiDAR family tion and best suits their business model. New Leica RCD30 Medium Format Camera (RGBN) New Leica ADS80 SH9x Airborne Digital Sensor New Z/I DMCII family with DMCII 140, 230 and 250 Complete and “Best in Class” Suite of Flight Planning, Flight Management and Postprocessing software For further information please visit http://di.leica-geosystems.com www.ziimaging.com 110463_Takeoff_Ad_7_75x10_25inch.indd 1 21.07.11 11:13 DYNAMICALLY JUMPSTART YOUR GIS Building Permits Natural Resource Management Urban Planning Cadastral Mapping IS YOUR GIS AT A GRIDLOCK, LIMITED TO A FEW, CONTAINED AND LOCKED AWAY? Between those working with a heavy and hard-to-use desktop GIS and a static lightweight browser-based GIS exists a large potential user base. GeoMedia® Smart Client makes your organization progressive, engaging individuals and departments to collectively ignite your dynamic GIS. Geographic changes are easily and interactively implemented across an enterprise-wide smart GIS, seamlessly integrating into configurable workflows. Users leverage advanced geospatial functionality via simple-to-use map-based tools, streamlining their processes and honing their expertise to build a smart GIS. Discover the power of geography and build a smarter organization with GeoMedia Smart Client. www.intergraph.com/geospatial Intergraph, GeoMedia Smart Client, and the Intergraph logo are registered trademarks of Intergraph Corporation. © 2012 Intergraph Corporation. 24 ARTICLES National Mapping Agencies: 38 Between a rock and a hard location Robin McLaren Disaster response: 48 User generated data to the rescue Ryan Falor Inside... 52 Standards: Key to VGI success Inside... Mark Reichard CASE STUDIES VGI: 42 Kuwait Environment Public Agency: Democratisation of geographic information Citizen power to the fore Prof Arup Dasgupta 44 Libya Public Health System: A speedy recovery of health system CHAIRMAN M P Narayanan PUBLISHER Sanjay Kumar Queensland Reconstruction Authority: PUBLICATIONS TEAM 46 Managing Editor Prof. Arup Dasgupta Rising from disaster Editor - Latin America (Honorary) Tania Maria Sausen Sr. Associate Editor (Honorary) Dr. Hrishikesh Samant INTERVIEWS Executive Editor Bhanu Rekha Product Manager Shivani Lal Assistant Editors Deepali Roy, Aditi Bhan, Vaibhav Arora, Anand Kashyap 20 DESIGN TEAM Sr. Creative Designer Deepak Kumar Graphic Designer Manoj Kumar Singh "Content is the next big opportunity" CIRCULATION TEAM Circulation Manager Vijay Kumar Singh Harold Goddijn Founder & CEO, TomTom DISCLAIMER Geospatial World does not necessarily subscribe to the views expressed in the publi- 34 cation. All views expressed in this issue are those of the contributors. Geospatial "Humans have a permanent World is not responsible for any loss to anyone due to the information provided. emotional relation with space" OWNER, PUBLISHER & PRINTER Sanjay Kumar PRINTED AT M. P. Printers B - 220, Georg Gartner Phase-II, Noida - 201 301, Gautam Budh Nagar (UP) INDIA PUBLICATION ADDRESS A - 92, President Sector - 52, Gautam Budh Nagar, Noida, India International Cartographic Association Geospatial World 07 Editorial 08 News Geospatial Media and Communications Pvt. Ltd. (formerly GIS Development Pvt. Ltd.) A - 145, Sector - 63, Noida, India CORRIGENDOM: In the article “The Cadastral Divide: A View from the Bridge” in the July Tel + 91-120-4612500 Fax +91-120-4612555 / 666 PRICE: INR 150/US$ 15 edition of Geospatial World, the source for the figure on Pg 45 is Dr. Rohan Bennett. Abbas Rajabifard Preetha Pulusani President, Greg Bentley Juergen Dold Chief Strategy Officer, GSDI Association CEO, Benltey Systems President, Hexagon Geosystems Rolta Group Shailesh Nayak Aida Opoku Mensah Prof Ian Dowman Kamal K Singh Secretary Director - ICT Division First Vice President Chairman and CEO Ministry of Earth Sciences UN Economic Commission for Africa ISPRS Rolta Group Government of India Bryn Fosburgh Mark Reichardt Vanessa Lawrence CB Vice President Jack Dangermond President and CEO Director General and CEO, Trimble President, Esri Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. Ordnance Survey, UK Derek Clarke Chief Director-Survey and Mapping & National Geospatial Information Josef Strobl Matthew M O'Connell Department of Rural Development & Director, Centre for Geoinformatics, President and CEO University of Salzburg, Austria GeoEye Advisory Board Land Reform, South Africa Geospatial World I July 2012 5 7/18/2017/18/201 Citizen power to prevail n July 2004, Steve Coast, a student from the University College of London, decided that Speak the maps available from the 'authoritative source' viz, the Ordnance Survey were too r I expensive, difficult to get, not editable and held geolocation information back. He established a website openstreetmap.org and explained his philosophy at the EuroFOO o t conference in August 2004. In short, the philosophy was to have common citizens collect data i and share it over a website that would be freely accessible to other citizens. According to Tim Berners Lee, "OpenStreetMap is all about people doing their bit, creating an incredible d resource for everybody else." E What Steve did was what every student loves to do - challenge the authority, especially one that is unreasonably restrictive. What happened next is some- thing fantastic. The followers of OSM grew from a few thou- sand to hundreds of thousands and the maps grew from just the UK to cover nearly the whole world. Haiti relief efforts used OSM maps and many LBS providers turn to OSM for the latest updates. This is the basis of what is referred to as user gener- ated content, UGC or volunteered geographic information (VGI). Steve joined Microsoft in 2010 as Principal Architect of Bing Mobile and this perhaps indicates that what started as an act of rebellion has turned into a recognised activity and is turning into a commercial reality. This display of the power of citizens to work together for a geo- graphic cause is something that has upset the staid entities that fall under the rubric of national mapping organisations )NMOs). Strong attempts are being made to include VGI into authoritative information. NMOs are wrestling with accuracy and reliability versus the need for speed in data acquisition and delivery. Standards are evolving to address many of these Prof. Arup Dasgupta issues but regulatory issues remain. Will the data remain free Managing Editor after it is assimilated into authoritative collections in the pub- [email protected] lic and private domains? Will the data be free of unreasonable restrictions of access and use? We don't know yet but what we do know is that geospatial world is undergoing a revolution - perhaps unintended - where citizens are finding new ways of doing old things as well as new applications using the technology that has become accessible to them. This revolution is shaking the foundation of geospatial data acquisition, applications and dissemination of infor- mation. Business opportunities abound for established firms as well as for new start-ups. Governments need to harness this power for good governance. The slow moving world of law has to learn to adjust and adapt to these new developments. Will citizen power prevail? I think it will because they have woken up to the fact that geographical information is the leitmotif of human existence and therefore they are the main stakeholders. Geospatial World I July 2012 7 NEWS lion for the development of Nasarawa use planning and preparation of dis- State Geographic Information System trict land use plans and connecting (NAGIS). It will be developed as per districts to the country's land admin- the World Bank standards. The istration information system. NAGIS aims to phase out the obso- NIGERIA lete data storage system and man- agement. Sonny Agassi, commission- KENYA Maps to address er in-charge of the ministry, said, "We want to upgrade land adminis- UNESCO maps disaster issue tration in the state by digitising land Surveyor-General has been asked to records. NAGIS will be a one-stop groundwater map geographical landscape of the shop for all land use data in the The United Nations Educational, country to address disaster issue, state." Scientific and Cultural Organization informed Arc. Muhammad Namadi (UNESCO) launched 'Groundwater Sambo, Vice President of Nigeria, Resources Investigation for Drought during 47th Annual General Meeting RWANDA mitigation in Africa' project in of the Institution of Surveyors in Nairobi. Ilorin. During the Meeting, the Presi- Ministry seeks funds The project is supported by the US dent of the Institute, Yakubu Maikano, Government and Japan International observed that the country needs a for land management Cooperation Agency (JICA). It aims to National Mapping Policy that would The Ministry of Environment and Nat- provide assured water supply in sustain the production of maps in the ural Resources
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