Kashif Rasul last year decided to buy himself one of those GeoChron GPS from SparkFun (they are really cool: field hardended and can take SD cards check it here) … after doing some mapping around Europe and Malaysia he decided to use it to initiate the first openstreetmap mapping party in Multan (which incidentally is [...]
One of our contributers Shoaib gave a talk at an Australian Government agency. Here are his slides. Best viewed with his talk notes.
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The ASIBA last week release a set of recommendations for the Australian government. These recommendations were based on a economic study evaluating what the spatial industry in Australia is worth. A staggering 6-12 billion dollars is the figure mentioned.
But lets look at the recommendations: I quite like the aims of some of these: government [...]