LetsDiscuss: Rival of Gogle Earth from India Called "Bhuvan"

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posted by jasraj.sangani 48 days ago

The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), which is based in Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of the sub-continent, will roll-out a rival to Google Earth, the hugely popular online satellite imagery service, by the end of the month. The project, dubbed Bhuvan (Sanskrit for Earth), will allow users to zoom into areas as small as 10 metres wide, compared to the 200 metre wide zoom limit on Google Earth. It comes as India redoubles its efforts to reap profits from its 45-year-old space programme, long criticised as a drain on a country where 700 million people live on $2 (£1) a day or less. It also follows in the slipstream of the country's first Moon probe, Chandrayaan-1, which reached the lunar surface successfully on Friday.
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  • Avatar | written by aspirationz 47 days ago Rating: 0 | Rate comment: + -

    That's some great news. Its nice to see India finally moving ahead of the claims and actually doing something tangible. Lets hope the Indian media doesn't overhype the issue else it would be a case similar to the Indian IT ndustry. They say India is a super-power in IT and yet when the IT competitiveness reports were declared recently, India was ranked a pathetic 42nd.

  • Avatar | written by denny 46 days ago Rating: 0 | Rate comment: + -

    oh my god.... hey aspirationz wat are saying.... wen this report was published???

    and 42 is worst as compared to the hype that India receives for its IT sector....

  • Avatar | written by jasraj.sangani 46 days ago Rating: 0 | Rate comment: + -

    Hello friends you are misunderstanding the topic. I am talking about the Software called GOOGLE EARTH so ISRO with the help of hi-res cameras is going to launch BHUVAN a rival of google earth. Kindly continue on it..

  • Avatar | written by denny 46 days ago Rating: 0 | Rate comment: + -

    ya jasraj dear we have understood the topic but what we are discussing here is Indians always hype the things on which they are good at....

    the IT industry is one of the example where India is ranking 46 in the world....

  • Avatar | written by nrsattiraju 44 days ago Rating: 0 | Rate comment: + -

    we have to appreciate.It is great leap forward.


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