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CCID Consulting statistics show that the market size of LBS reached CNY 485 million ($71 million) in the first half of 2008, LBS being defined as “value added services that are provided by operators to provide location, navigation, and other services to mobile phone users through SMS, WAP, and other methods”. CCID estimates that, for the entire year 2008, LBS revenue will be around CNY 1 billion (S146 million). CCID Consulting forecasts that LBS will achieve rapid growth as 3G users and services develop; in 2012, the LBS market revenue is expected to reach CNY 3.8 billion ($560 million).  more>>

In early 2010, the Irish postal market will be opened to competition (until now, only the government’s « An Post » could deliver ordinary mail), and from that point forward the non- unique addressing system used in Ireland for hundreds of years will no longer be practical for delivering mail. To support the demand for more precise addressing from industries dependent on vehicle navigation, GPS Ireland, a GPS company in Ireland, has developed a post code system based on geographic coordinates. The system is referred to as PON Codes, short for Position Orientated Navigation Codes. PON Codes are seven character alphanumeric codes which have a mathematical relationship to latitude and longitude. more >>>

Google Maps switched from NAVTEQ to Tele Atlas for its map data in North America. However, there might be some confusion on this topic. Despite this change, Tele Atlas has not become the unique map data provider to Google. Google did not switch all its map purchasing to Tele Atlas; the Mountain View company continues to rely on many other providers throughout the world: AND, Europa Technologies, Basarsoft (Turkey), MapIT (Australia), Zenrin (Asia), etc.

a good opensource GIS project

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There have been many creatures found on Google Earth, but the most impressive ones are mostly there as part of the National Geographic African Megaflyover Project, which brought us thousands of super-high-resolution aerial photographs of Africa. So to highlight the best, today we’re going on Google Sightseeing Safari!

Le portail information géographique de Wikipédia contient des liens vers de nombreux articles se rapportant à l’information géographique, les SIG, les bases de données, la programmation SIG, les techniques d’acquisition d’information géographique, les sources de données et bien d’autres encore.

[Source: Satellite imaging corporation ]

WorldView-1, DigitalGlobe’s earth imaging satellite, completed a successful launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, U.S.A., at 11:35 Hrs Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) on September 18th, 2007. The Delta II rocket lifted off in good weather and the WorldView-1 satellite is « currently undergoing a calibration and check-out period, » according to DigitalGlobe. The first panchromatic image data should become available before October 18th, 2007.

The high-capacity, panchromatic imaging system features half-meter resolution imagery. Operating at an altitude of 496 kilometers, WorldView-1 will have an average revisit time of 1.7 days and will be capable of collecting up to 750,000 square kilometers (290,000 square miles) per day of half-meter imagery. The satellite will also be equipped with state-of-the-art geo-location accuracy capabilities and will exhibit stunning agility with rapid targeting and efficient in-track stereo collection.

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