The Geospatial Blog

NSDI-2011 and I am excied!

noreply@blogger.com (Harsha Vardhan Madiraju) — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:52:00 +0000

It's my first visit to the NSDI commune as a part of NSDI 11 to be held from 11-12 Jan.

As a part of it, my company is also sponsoring this event; and we are going out for a presentation out there!

This time there is a strong involvement of the industry, and hope that the views and ideas shared by the companies would add some value to the NSDI initiative.

More exciting is the strategy of Intergraph | ERDAS products as they are now under a single umbrella ..

What else, watch out as I would slide in my views out after the conference.

3D data getting relevance in India?

noreply@blogger.com (Harsha Vardhan Madiraju) — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:29:00 +0000

We have been seeing the phenomenon of maps, constantly improving the feature sets. One of the features I personally have been waiting for is 3D data in the online mapping services for India.

Currently working on a paper on the same, I started to explore various mapping services, but to my dismay I only noticed that Ovi Maps is providing the 3D models along with the mapping service. This was some time last week. The models are still not that complete or mature, as you see the minarets missing out of Charminar :)

Charminar area, Hyderabad, India as seen in Ovi Maps

Today, trying to navigate through Hyderabad in Google Maps, I saw the Earth Tab and thoguht of giving it a try. To my surprise, I found that Google has got lot better 3D model data than Nokia Ovi.

View of Charminar Area, Hyderabad, India in Google Maps. Click for to View Larger Map

Looking at such the availability of 3D data in the Indian context, I have some questions that I would like to ask the community:

Is there a demand for 3D data for public consumption, but that data was not available till date?
In the above is not true, the demand has to be created and this is being tried at by the mapping services?

Another step ahead for online mapping in India will be the availability of Street Maps/ Street Views. Google and Microsoft have already got the capability, however they have not yet tried this for India. What might be the reasons behind? Again I have to ask the community:

Is Indian market not ready for such data?
Or, has it got to do with the restrictions imposed by the policy in the name of privacy?

Looking forward for your comments.

The Problem with Geospatial Industry and Land Records Departments

noreply@blogger.com (Harsha Vardhan Madiraju) — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:55:00 +0000

I was glad to see that a Land Records Department has come out with such bold statements on 'The Problem with Geospatial Industry and Land Records Departments' pertaining to the implementation of Land Record Projects. This has also got to do with the ethics part of the business which is also equally important for the industry.

Here are some important and worth noting references about the problems from the presentation that was given recently at the Punjab Land Records Society

The Problem with Geospatial Industry and Land Records Departments

Since money is at stake, industry resorts to short cuts
Industry is good in GIS techniques but very poor in Surveying Concepts
Industry tackles the problems as one does in topographical Surveys forgetting topographical surveys do not have legal sanctity
Procedures adopted do not offer checks. Do not Understand the quantum of work involved therefore industry is not able to quote properly.

In case of Land records Authorities

They do not Know what do they want
They are very poor in surveying and do not know any thing about GIS therefore industry takes undue advantage of this hence administrators are reluctant to clear the bills of companies. And project fails.
The staff is not willing to adopt the system because they feel it will hurt their financial interest

Under quoting may lead to Failures

These are some of the important facts that cannot be ruled out. And we must really appreciate for the foresight of the Punjab Land Records Society, for considering those facts related to the bid they have brought out. The authorities seems to be really sensible in terms of their plans for implementing the project for Punjab, unlike other states that have recently brought out their bids.

This has been a phenomenon for quite long time in the Indian GIS industry as I hear from people from the industry. The Indian GIS customers who are typically from the government as quoted in this presentation and also according to my little understanding "do not know any thing about GIS" and are often interested in allotting projects to those who quote low which in industry jargon called L1. This has been the way the smaller companies have been very regularly practicing and now has also got up with some medium sized companies quoting low to have a kick start in this area of Land Records.

This might seem to work for short term, but due to the nature of such projects which involve the consent of general public to finish off the project, has got with it the characteristic of getting delayed and in long term such delay might lead to financial problems for such companies. Now that the Land Records Department of Punjab has realised this fact, there might be hope for good players to enter Punjab without compromising on their pricing. And it would be a a really good sign for the industry and for NLRMP if other states will also realise this fact.

Gadget Set Go! Challenges for the GPS enabled autos in Delhi

noreply@blogger.com (Harsha Vardhan Madiraju) — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 04:52:00 +0000

Image by Tianyake via Flickr

Amazed by reading this news Autos in Delhi told to install GPS in six months - however this brings before us the experience of the Delhi govt. in their unsuccessful attempts to successfully run the buses by GPS enabling them. Though it has been mandated by the Central govt, to have a control center for centrally monitoring the buses, and also providing the information to the passengers about the real time location of the ext bus. Yes they would definitely argue and can exempt themselves from this clause as they did don get funds under JNNURM.

The plight situation of the Dehli Transport Corporation not very long time ago was that they did not even have the location details of all their bus stops. How can that be possible when they have already successfully launched the GPS facilities for the buses? It's as simple as that - doing a GIS project without your base data. This brings out the questions on what they were trying to achieve without that level of base data? Only a wasted investment on those GPS devices that never run? Or is that data being logged is being really put in to use.

Now the same applies to the GPS enabling of the autos. Do the government have or plan to collect the locations of all the auto-stands? How they plan to centralize the system? How are they going to link the metering system with the control room?

I think there can be more transparency, if there will be a built in mechanism to automatically calculate and generate the bill from this central location from the distance the auto has traveled. This will eliminate the intervention of the auto driver and bring in a hazel less drive to the commuter. This is what I am imagining to be in a ideal world. But the ground reality will only relfect when this system turns out to be a success.
This all comes at a cost, which it seems that the autowalas cannot afford. And it is seems to be a very good suggestion on behalf of government to include the price of setting up of positioning devices with in the fare per trip, which the user has to shell out.

Forgot to mention about another great area of research which will be open from this is the data generated from the buses and autos. Such datasets can be of great help in understanding the traffic and travel patterns as such real time data is lacking on our sensor-free country. Another area where the potential of of Geospatial is yet to be unleashed in India.

The Geographic Advantage

noreply@blogger.com (Harsha Vardhan Madiraju) — Sat, 01 May 2010 03:24:00 +0000

GIS, Geospatial, Geomatics, GIScience .. what is there in the term?

I read this post Geoinformatics, Geospatial or Geomatics? by Prof. Arup Dasgupta and I accept on his final statement - Old habits die hard. This sound totally correct for the elderly.

But for the new generation like us, who are embracing this technology through our education programs tag-lined as P.G Diploma in GIS, MSc in Geomatics, MSc in GIScience, Diploma in Geoinformatics etc. the essence is it does sound and feel like the same. And yes their actual definitions may vary.

For the industry coining a term in real sense is trying to be unique! To make its users feel that they are unique. Coming to Jack Dangermond's comments way back in 1993 reflects in ESRI recent strategy to change their punchline to The Geographic Advantage. This is somehow totally convincing for me! Ultimately in onse sense its utimately playing with data and presenting it Geography(cally). Popularising GIS might be a lot easier in this way, when keep these internal jargon's to ourselves and say to the end user that GIS is a new way to take advantage of geography, that can make much more sense.

I find myself troubled when some one asks me what do you do? If I say that I work in this technology area called GIS, there starts and stops the conversation. I end up either giving them an intro to GIS or simplify my task asking them whether he/ she has come across Google Earth. And I simply the conversation by saying that GE is an example for a GIS software. Look in to the complexity! To this date Bio-technology must be a more recognised term than Geospatial Technology or Geomatics among the masses!

Google, Yahoo and Microsoft have brought this technology to masses by simplifying it, and may be some one must also take a move to popularise it by simplifying the acronym :D .. so that this technology is also popular among the masses or for those kids in school will not feel it like a rocket science for them, to embrace.

Nokia Ovi Maps is now free - Didn't they wake up so late?

noreply@blogger.com (Harsha Vardhan Madiraju) — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:27:00 +0000

This question always came to my mind as a proud Nokia N95 holder and a geo-enthusiast "Why does Nokia wants to charge me for Maps?"

And I remember the way they publisised the Maps product in Media, to out-door advertising to Road shows. How ever, I thought at that time, they are basically lagging at one important stratergy. i.e the pricing of their maps application. They were charging the consume the license fee for their application!!

Unlike the PND's, the sole purpose for which they are ment or made for, Mobiles are multi-purpose and are meant to bring in the ubiquity concept to the user.

And in the generation of connectivity and networking where the mobile companies had to advertise or brand their products together with the online services like Orkut, Facebook, Gmail etc. which are totally free, charging for an application like Ovi Maps was totally redundant.

Meanwhile, I was frustrated with their charging policy and had to switch to Google Maps Mobile, though it lacks the navigation feature. At the end of the day, I want some thing that's totally free.

I am brining out this context at this moment because, Nokia has finally woke-up and finally made the maps application free - for life time and world wide.

Didn't they wake up so late? Can they still capture back the market, alluring the users in this fashion? Will Nokia sustain this approach of providing free maps, and still be available after a year? These are some of the questions.

The Ad in today's Times of India from Nokia can be seen in the post.

Second India Disaster Management Congress

noreply@blogger.com (Harsha Vardhan Madiraju) — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:23:00 +0000

Working these days in the areas of Climate Change and Disaster Management made me to attend this conference. Due to my bad experience at registration at another conference I attended two weeks ago, I planned to go little early. And to my surprise, I was the first one to reach the conference venue at 8, and waiting for the people at the registration counter to come. Though I went as a registered user, they had no clue about my registration. So, its an advice for others attending it to have a chill-pill and not to get surprised if you have a similar experience next time.

Conference
This years Plenary speakers at the inaugural session are the most recognised in their fields. Important points to be noted were:

Shri G. K. Pillai, Union Home Secretary - National Policy on Disaster Management has been approved by cabinet and will be soon available online
Dr. A. S. Arya, Professor Emeritus, IIT Roorkee - 300 districts in India are multi-hazard prone
Ms. Margareta Wahlstorm, UN Asstt. Secretary General, Disaster Risk Reduction -
* Spoke on exposure of infrastructure to risks and hazards
* Focus on risk reduction should be done with focus on local levels
* Barriers when implementing pilots/ projects needs to be fully understood
Gen. N. C. Vij, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM (Retd.), Vice Chairman, National Disaster Management Authority -
* Recommendations from confernece will be attended very seriously
* Forecasting systems need to be upgraded - Work already in progress at CWC for flood
forecasts, IMD for weather forecasts
* Applications of GIS in this area is also in focus
* State Disaster Response forces to be set-up soon in Andhra and Karnataka

Website Launch
South Asian Disaster Knowledge Network, an online information system for Disaster Management in South Asia has been launched by SAARC in collaboration with UNDP.

Awards
INCOIS was recognised for its work on Tsunami warning system and has been selected for the Disaster Mitigation Award (Institutional category) .

There were many thematic sessions in the programme and the ones attended were on Climate Change, Incident Command System, Geo Information System. A brief on the important points are below:

Climate Change
The programme and list of speakers can be found here

Prof. Shukla - Climate change does not mean that we will see new kinds of disasters, but their frequency and intensity will vary. The challenge that lies is to predict disasters more accurately in real time. Change in Indian monsoon in CC scenario is another important area. Emphasised the need for a Climate Change Centre in India with High Performance Computing resources, was greatly emphasised.
Ms. Margareta - Emphasised IPCC report on extreme weather events and said that local applications of global predictions need to be undertaken. Answering to a question from a scientist about free availability of climate related data sets, she agreed that there must be free access to such data and knowledge. She brought before the audience that Namibian govt. has asked her "If floods on changing their patterns does this mean that we need to move cities". She also brought out that both urban and rural communities are at risk. But the coping factor to the risks is greater at urban than at rural areas.
Dr.P.K.Agarwal - Spoke on adaptation of agriculture to CC. Called for improved land & water management. Spoke on need for a mechanism for collecting & disseminating data related to weather, soil and agriculture.
Dr. R.D.Singh - Strong decentralised IT systems needed for GLOF studies.

Recommendations from the session:

Need to have dedicated petaflops of computing systems
* Prof. Shukla to my question said grid d cloud computing are not alternatives for climate
change community. And dedicated super computers are needed.
Need to develop and implement early warning systems for all hydro-meteo disasters
Sharing and access of meteo, hydro, environ data and products within govt and research communities needed.
* Dr. Akhilesh to my question on this said that the Policy on Data Sharing is in-line with
this recommendation and this policy will come out after approval from the PMO in
6 weeks times. This might be a boost for NSDI.
Upgradation of communication systems

Incident Command System
The programme and list of speakers can be found here

Mr. Rajesh Arya - ICS is a flexible modular system adaptable to any scale of natural as well as man-made disasters. This has been introduced in India through recommendations from J.C.Pant committee on Disaster Response.
Col AKS Parmar - Proper linkage with line departments/ agencies for effective coordination is needed. Incorporation of RS, GIS, Database technologies is needed. Members of ICS should be trained on vulnerability analysis
Dr. Kamal Mishra, Deputy GM, Orissa State DM Authority - In ICS implementation, they have started using GIS and found benefits. Emphasised that GIS should be at core of decision making.

Learnings from this session:

New ICS guide lines will be released soon. In India it is named as Incident Response System (IRS)
ICS is still a new concept for most of the people working at District level, who are major users of it.
There are no guidelines currently for IT systems in ICS scenario. As GIS is being used and emphasised by Orissa SDMA, this area can be ventured into by GIS community.
Prof. Umesh from IIT Mumbai also felt that a commercially off the shelf product for Indian ICS scenario would be a good business case. As ICS implementation remains with the State DM authorities, this will be a good business area for IT/ GIS companies.
Also sensitising the state DM authoriteis about the role of GIS in ICS can be a good aspect for training

Geo Information System
There were no significant points from GIS session, that I have attended.

Dynamics of change

noreply@blogger.com (Harsha Vardhan Madiraju) — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:54:00 +0000

GIS Development spoke to several geospatial industry leaders, decision makers and academicians to gain an objective understanding of the dynamics of change in Geospatial content, technology, impact of global economic slowdown, growing markets, potential geospatial verticals and the challenges that lay ahead for the industry. Each of the sections of this article discuss elaborately the current and future expectations from the geospatial market.

Read the article below:

Get your own - Open publication

Calling Ilwis - Is some body home

noreply@blogger.com (Harsha Vardhan Madiraju) — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:43:00 +0000

Got Ilwis 3.5 Open. This one is from 52north .. I previously tried to install Grass. It's only possible to install when you are high on grass I thought..put that in to my old CD's .. not this one is very easy to isntall, and I did try to open up some files..

The display isn't that impressive as ArcGIS or like any other commercial stuff.. still this ones free.. While I will try to explore this application more..

GIS Quote: Kriging is not a boys play!!

noreply@blogger.com (Harsha Vardhan Madiraju) — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:33:00 +0000

I was trying to learn or understand Spatial Statistics for so many days.. Every time I try to read any thing about Spatial Statitics and come across the terms like Kriging, Covariance, Semivariogram and all.. I go crazy !!

I am serious and to substantiate my statements - I found some thing interesting for you

"Getting to know the Kriging method involves delving into the mysterious world of probability and prediction, which, depending on your understanding of statistics, could lead either to years of therapy, or to your Ph.D"

Quoted from ESRI Virtual Campus Course - Learning ArcGIS Spatial Analyst

Land Surveyor's beaten up in Jharkand state of India

noreply@blogger.com (Harsha Vardhan Madiraju) — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 14:04:00 +0000

Continuing with the Land row problems that have grown up recently, yesterday some land surveyors working for a land acqusition project were beaten, ill-teated by immorals.

A pity on the people of course... but can do nothing, as they were working in such an area where the locals cannot realise that - the guys doing the survey are not the actual project owners..

Read more ..

Landsurveyors_illtreat

News of ill-treatment of Surveyors

Google enters the Virtual space 'Lively'

noreply@blogger.com (Harsha Vardhan Madiraju) — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:31:00 +0000

I have come across this new Beta service at the Google Labs - Lively by Google - a virtual space/ world of yours..

Create an avatar and chat with your friends in rooms you design - is what Lively about.

And the login page say's

Sign in to Lively by Google, and ...

	Socialize in 3D places on the web: Lively by Google has interactive 3D places on web pages where visitors can see each other's avatars and chat. Customize your avatar and decorate rooms to add another dimension to social networking!
	Express yourself: Your avatar represents you. Pick a character that suits your personality or mood and customize it to make it unique. Dress your avatar to express your style. Use your avatar's animations to add some body language to chats!
	Create and share your own places: Anybody can create and publish their own room. Pick a room shell that provides a good foundation and decorate it any way that you can imagine. Invite people to visit your room -- they can decorate it too!

The virtual world experience is not good for me in other services.. but this seems to be lighter and fun.. let me try..before I can put some more thoughts on this.. meanwhile you can have a0 preview of what it would look like .. below (I guess you will need the extension to be downloaded

Mozilla Ubiquitous Test

noreply@blogger.com (Harsha Vardhan Madiraju) — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:25:00 +0000

GIS Development, Sector 63, Noida

Test 1 has failed to show up the PNG of the map.. going for trail 2..
GIS Development, Sector 63, Noida

Hyderabad International Airport - Stellite Imagery

noreply@blogger.com (Harsha Vardhan Madiraju) — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:57:00 +0000

I don't find the new Shamshabad International Airport, Hyderabad to be updated in Google Earth Imagery yet..

How long will it take. I guess atleast, Google must keep in their policy, that they will updated places like this as soon as the imagery is available with the satellite data provider.

Google are u listening.. you are popular, so don't let down people - be updated - atleast for Important places!!

Nokia Sports Tracker Beta & Community Traffic Info: Part 1

noreply@blogger.com (Harsha Vardhan Madiraju) — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:37:00 +0000

Today morning I turned on My Sports Tracker Beta on N95 .. and here is the beautiful route from Hitech City, Hyderabad to the new International Airport at Shamshabad, Hyderabad.

Check it out here...

The drive was amazing, early in the morning.. and I enjoyed watching the altitude changes, speed at various points..
The total distance was: 37.68 km
Avg.Speed was: 39 km/ h

Looking at the sports tracker application, I am getting the idea, that if the communities data can be analysed, we can understand traffic patterns depending on Day/ Time etc.. but ofcourse a high-end GPS would be my choice, rather than the in-bulit GPS. But still this can be a move, towards the Community aspect for not only sharing maps/ routes, but also in understanding the travel patterns in that community.

In my next post, I will try to explain with some screen shots - why the speed at various positions was varying.. and understanding the speed relation to aspects like - traffic, road condition etc.. Its going to be difficult, especially, I have only the data summary - instead of summary at each point I select - though I would prefer that..

And now I have to correct my self.. because the option of saving the route as CSV really provides such information - and this file has 2550 data values .. and I would like to try this app in the same route on different days and come to conclusions..

Show me the Center of the earth

noreply@blogger.com (Harsha Vardhan Madiraju) — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:41:00 +0000

This cute little earth .. DigitalGlobe gives in the MapSeries conferences of GIS Development..

Show me the Center of the Earth from http://harsham.vox.com/

Looking at it today.. a statement came in to mind, that I read in my Geography class, when I was a kid.. "Show me the Center of the Earth - I would lift it with one hand".. I don't remember when I read it.. and who made this statement.. again If I am right!! can you help me in identifying the peron who made this statement !!

Geospatial & My StumbleUpOn

noreply@blogger.com (Harsha Vardhan Madiraju) — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:38:00 +0000

I have been Stumbling since Jun 17, 2005... and have a huge collection of bookmarks related to GIS, Geospatial, Remote Sensing, GPS and all..

04062008027 from http://harsham.vox.com/

So check out.. http://y0ce012.stumbleupon.com

Maps & Friday Dressing

noreply@blogger.com (Harsha Vardhan Madiraju) — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:30:00 +0000

Hi.. Maps, Flags are a part of every thing.. even our shirts and all. But I have never really seen a thematic map on a T-Shirt.

And to my surprise, I found one of my friends at office having this colorful T-shirt with a thematic map on it..

Here it goes..

Guess the countries Mate from http://harsham.vox.com/

I guess (nope) am sure it must be Thailand and Lagos ... First I interpreted to be Italy (Dumb!!)..any ways I realised, and the Map data of that region Once I worked for CARE came to my mind .. It was nothing big, but had to create some thematic maps on HIV data from that region.

My Guess might be wrong too .. correct me if I am wrong ..

Nokia Set to Integrate Navteq Maps into Entire Ovi Network

noreply@blogger.com (Harsha Vardhan Madiraju) — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:52:00 +0000

Nokia's Umbrella service called Ovi for all its services like Maps, Music,N-Gage etc is set to integrate Navteq Maps - with the acquisition almost complete... look in o this video on Blip.TV for an interview with Kamar Shah, head of global head of industry and marketing for Nokia... He talks about the Aspect concept and how this is getting popular through Mobile Social Networking stuff..

Credits: Blip.TV

Ground-Breaking Music Video made without cameras, film or lights

noreply@blogger.com (Harsha Vardhan Madiraju) — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:13:00 +0000

The alternative British rock group RADIOHEAD and their new release, "House of Cards" music video is the first ever to be premiered by Google, also the first live action music video to be shot without the use of any cameras, film or lights, but instead only using lasers and scanners providing the 3D background - the same technology which we use for 3D DEMs...

The making of the video can be seen below

And for the video see below

Credits: GIS Development Weekly

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Now playing: Enrique Iglesias - Push
via FoxyTunes

Dave's Geospatial Developer Survey

noreply@blogger.com (Harsha Vardhan Madiraju) — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:32:00 +0000

Though this post by Dave is pretty old "in the virtual world"..I still would like to quote the recent survey by Dave Bouwman for 2008.

The points I want to note in my dairy are below:

ESRI is developers fav.. may be clients demand!!
.Net was the prominent platform with a share of 61%
There was a 50-50 split on "Who do you develop for?" i.e. for External clients and own organisation
44% responders felt that "there should be a forum for developing geospatial patterns"
Dave points out that there is a room for growth for using Unit Testing in GIS projects
And to the question on "if tests were easier, would you adopt" - almost 85% said YES (mmmm.....)

And I have put out a question to Dave on the geo-distribution of the responders.. I would like to know about it too..

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Now playing: Brian Eno - 1/1
via FoxyTunes

Jobs at Spatial Networks - Clearwater, FL office

noreply@blogger.com (Harsha Vardhan Madiraju) — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:57:00 +0000

Anthony Quartararo wrote to me about the openings at the Spatial Networks - Clearwater, FL office.

He said"If you are not currently looking for a position, or if none of these openings are a fit for you, feel free to forward them to someone who might be interested in this opportunity, if you feel it is appropriate for them. I would really appreciate any referrals."

View these jobs to inquire and send to friends

BarCamp Delhi Summer Edition

noreply@blogger.com (Harsha Vardhan Madiraju) — Mon, 12 May 2008 06:47:00 +0000

BarCampDelhi4 is here again in my Inbox :) and its sure that I will participate, I wonder on how to proceed - if I am going to proceed this time.. with me being dumb related to programming and I remember that my presentation was a real spoil of the efforts al the last barcamp on Mashup editors... I really fear shall I present this time.

I really have a concept in mind and as I have already putup a paper on Navteq Global LBS challenge.. I am not sure on presenting this on the LBS app development trends or atleast give a perspective on the emerging trends the mobile social apps,lbs and UGC...

Let me think up on it.. while I point you to the BarCampDelhi4 webpage.

I'm Mobile Social Networking

noreply@blogger.com (Harsha Vardhan Madiraju) — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:58:00 +0000

Gypsii: a mobile social network which also won the 2nd runner up prize at the Navteq EMEA Gobal LBS Challenge - I am a member from today :D .. hmm hope will not be a stale like Other Social networking sites like Orkut, FaceBook.. which I am not any more visiting regularly will be unique..

The reasons I can give :

Content: It is not all about that regular Hi-Hello and Bye kind of thing we will experience here..Its above that.
Mobile: It connects you with friends - Where ever you go!!
Its Geo - I'M Loving It !!
New markets: Especially in India where the power of location is still not explored in the consumer arena, I definitely feel that as more mobiles with GPS or GPS enabled will flood new markets will benefit.

Lets see GyPSii how long you will go.... and I will prepare my self by this month with a N90 and will experiment you - be prepared!

What has Similar Minds got to do with Location?

noreply@blogger.com (Harsha Vardhan Madiraju) — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:23:00 +0000

I came across through this site "SimilarMinds.com" with tag-line "find people with similar interests and music/movie/book taste"... I really wondered how people and their similarities in thoughts are related to a particular geography.. "This would be a Wonderful Topic of Research" and I am sure that some one must have worked on this already - which I will explore in the coming days..