FME
Geography or GIS for that matter has never been so closer to our lives. Accurate geospatial data holds the key to several of the problems confronting our planners and decision makers today. The concept of Geospatial Data Infrastructure was first conceived in Canada in the early 1980s. There after other countries like USA, UK, Holland, Australia and Malaysia joined the race. Of late with the setting up of National Geospatial Data Infrastructure (NGDI) in India, the importance of geospatial data and the need to have a geospatial data infrastructure similar to any other infrastructure has increased manifold. In this cyber savvy era of rapid transition, government agencies and other organizations are required to provide quick response to natural disaster, environmental crises and other such issues. The information needed to make accurate decisions depend on the availability of accurate geospatial data. This underlines the critical need to have a Geospatial Data Infrastructure at the nation...