Liberalizing mapping policies: How does free access to geospatial data is beneficial?

The government of India on Monday liberalized geospatial data, allowing private companies and individuals to conduct mapping and share geospatial data for various applications in verticals like e-commerce, transport etc., without government’s prior approval. At present Google is having the largest market in digital map services termed as Google Maps and is widely used in … Read more

Georeferencing in QGIS

Learn to Georeference a raster map in QGIS. Follow the steps given below: Open QGIS To start with, Georeference GDAL Plugin is required for georeferencing.  To install the plugin Go to menu Plugins->Manage Plugins. It opens Manage Plugins diaologue box. Check the Georeference GDAL plugin check box in the dialogue box and click OK. The … Read more