Update on India’s Bhuvan Variant to Google Earth
digital earth, earth observation, geovisualization, imagery March 4th, 2009There was much press this fall when India announced that they were developing their own version of Google Earth. The site that is in development is called Bhuvan, Sanskrit for Earth, and is meant to be a web portal to the Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO) imagery from their seven remote-sensing satellites, along with other map data. Today there’s a post on LiveMint.com with updates on the progress of this effort. When the site was announced it was said to be operational this month, but it appears that development will be ongoing.
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March 8th, 2009 at 8:44 pm
Look here and here for more speculations on Bhuvan
March 11th, 2009 at 7:38 pm
[...] as to whether the view will be 3D, like the Google Earth browser plugin, or 2D, like Google Maps. (Via Spatial Sustain) Comments [...]
March 11th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
[...] Bhuvan update: Livemin.com has new information on India’s upcoming satellite image-based mapping product, Bhuvan. In short: It won’t be ready in March 2009 as originally announced but will take a while to get launched, it “will comply with India’s remote sensing data policy, which does not allow online mapping services to show sensitive locations such as military and nuclear installations”, it will be browser-based, and it will not allow web users to annotate or add information. No word as to whether the view will be 3D, like the Google Earth browser plugin, or 2D, like Google Maps. (Via Spatial Sustain) [...]