Monthly Archives: August 2009

Chennai’s digital map from Survey of India

Posted on August 11, 2009 by Rashid Faridi

The Chennai Corporation’s efforts at technology-aided infrastructure development have got a fillip with the Survey of India completing the digitalised mapping of a majority of the city’s area. Survery of India has submitted 146 sq km of digitised maps of … Continue reading →

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India’s richest mineral belt to be explored and mapped

Posted on August 10, 2009 by Rashid Faridi

RANCHI, India: The National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) has offered to do free mapping of mineral reserves of Jharkhand through exploration.  NMDC CMD Rana Som, said there is a huge area which needs to be explored to find out the … Continue reading →

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Pipeline spills crude into French nature reserve

Posted on August 10, 2009 by Rashid Faridi

In an ecological disaster, four thousand cubic meters (140,000 cu ft) of crude oil has spewed into a nature reserve on the edge of France’s Camargue national park after an underground pipe burst.The spill spread over 2 hectares (5 acres) … Continue reading →

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Map making is 14000 years old

Posted on August 8, 2009 by Rashid Faridi

Archaeologists  have unearthed what they believe to be the oldest map in Western Europe, in a Spanish cave steeped in legend.The complex etchings were engraved on a hand-sized rock 13,660 years ago, probably by Magdalenian hunter-gatherers.A team led by Pilar … Continue reading →

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