News > Digital Data Creation in India Only Just Begun: MapIndia 2006
Digital Data Creation in India Only Just Begun: MapIndia 2006
28/02/2006
Government, whether central or state, primarily propels the Indian GIS market. MapIndia 2006 aimed to measure progress and delve into the elements enabling ‘finding the mainstream’. According to the organisers of MapIndia, the Indian geospatial market is growing at a very satisfactory speed and the Indian government is spending a good amount on creating infrastructure and developing GIS-based decision-support systems for natural-resource management and allied subjects. Mr Rajesh C. Mathur, president, ESRI India, observed that GIS was adhering to IT standards and network protocols. Large enterprises would eventually see the benefits and would discover the usefulness of this geographic data in every business sphere. The conference organisers confirmed his view, saying that over the last two decades most small, medium and large business enterprises across the globe had increasingly understood the significance and relevance of bringing the geographic component into their planning, design and delivery phases. However, it was also recognised that there was still a long way to go. Indeed, the real phase of digital data creation in India had just begun. GIS software manufacturers are making their systems open and interoperable, so that they can be easily deployed within various organisations. Today India has a huge pool of IT-skilled human resources especially adept in industry programming languages. These professionals are able to use their talent to customise software products to fit application needs.
