Indien er på vej med endnu en globe og nu også Kina - klodernes kamp ...
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India is underway with their own globe and now also is China - war of the worlds?
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China is going to set up its own three-dimensional (3D) Internet mapping system to provide high resolution photos to domestic online users, Changjiang Daily reported on February 11.
The program, launched by the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping, is equivalent to "Google Earth", a global mapping server with a database storing numerous geographic images.
Engineers from the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping discussed the technology in a conference held in Shanghai at the end of last November.
Assistant Professor Chen Jing from State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, said: "In view of market demand, Google Earth only provides high resolution pictures taken from North America and Europe."
According to Chen, compared with Google Earth, the pictures provided by the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping feature higher resolution and cover a wider range of national territory. As long as the place is not subject to significant security restrictions, online users can search wherever they want in the country, said Chen. "We have the edge on building a domestic geographic database by collecting the pictures drawn with global position system (GPS) or taken from the sky," she explained. [...]
Read more: http://en.ce.cn/National/stech/200902/13/t20090213_18196723.shtml
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