'Bhuvan should be accessed by different organisations'
Press Trust of India / New Delhi Nov 20, 2009, 15:46 IST
Bhuvan, an indigenously developed satellite mapping tool similar to Google Earth, should be widely accessed by different organisations and agencies for their programmes, Science and Technology Minister Prithviraj Chavan said today.
He said spreading its appeal among different sections is a major task before the Government. Bhuvan was launched in August this year by Indian Space Research Organisation.
"The biggest challenge before us today is how to make it popular and create a business model model like google earth out of Bhuvan," he said at a seminar here.
He also asked the industry to talk to the space department under his ministry for its wider use.
Inaugurating the seminar on 'Geospatial technologies for utilities in infrastructure', he said geospatical technologies holds immense relevance for various fields in this technology driven world.
According to industry, this segment will grow into a Rs 8 billion market in the coming years.
New initiatives by the Government in sectors such as urban planning, power, land records, agriculture and forests will be the major drivers for growth of geospatial industry, he said.
I tried using Bhuvan and upgraded to the latest version also.
Although it has data like population, area etc on villages and cities, tt uses the same image as used by Google and yahoo, which is atleast 4 yrs old.
If only Bhuvan had the latest image and allowed the map to be used in website, many more people will switch to it.
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