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Friday August 31, 2007
build a "Google Chile" to "Google Earth"
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Google Earth has sparked the interest by geography. In a local attempt to replicate its success, the Military Geographic Institute and the company prepared to deliver DMAP online a new image of Chile. The quest is now providing an insight into the streets of major cities and towns. Appears to the square of Lo Abarca, in the Valparaiso region of Cartagena to the east.
The images are displayed in EMOL. To view, click www.mapas.emol.com
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Friday August 31, 2007
atlases jump to the global network:
In geography a la carte, from paper to online maps
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Colonel Rodrigo Barriga Vargas cited "La Araucana "in his speech:" High longura Chile.
He heads the Military Geographical Institute (IGM). Formed
, heard the number of military and civilian who knows the country better than anyone. They've seen everything.
Ricardo Astorga, travelers TVN program "The path for Chile", should work in this institution if you want to set foot where no one has done before.
Life by data
The surveyor Jaime Farias has seen technological development: with theodolites left hand and now explains how to measure each point in the territory, with its dual-frequency Trimble GPS. The
installed at some point during three or four hours to connect to at least four satellites simultaneously. Give the longitude, latitude and height of that point. Margin of error: an inch!
But we must bear these delicate devices the size of a shoe box, more like a dish antenna extended. And wait for four hours.
"Today it's easier," says Jaime Farias, remembering the 80's.
"I've seen Jaime Farias climb from a zodiac to paddle to an island in the channels, with very poor navigation conditions, risking their lives in the surf, finding where to put the foot due to the dense vegetation and never flinching. Never say 'captain, the conditions are not,' "says Colonel Barry today.
why in his speech paid tribute to the 23 martyrs of the body, "who gave their lives in pursuit of representing our national territory."
The result of all these years: a digital mapping and accurate position references already wanted Don Diego Barros Arana when discussing limits.
The digital future in 2004 broke
But Google Earth. He got all us realize what the military knew all along: look at the area helps to recognize reality.
"Today any user, before investing, from home, becomes a floor analyst," the deputy director IGM, Col. Juan Vidal García Huidobro, yesterday awarded by 30 years of service.
"It is clear that developing countries are directly related to levels of geographic information," he adds.
He cites the case of Holland, who has "every inch" underground hydraulic information. Or, are flooded.
Therefore, the director of the IGM announced yesterday that refine the mapping. Be territorial and environmental. And make a true "zoom in" from national to regional plans and community.
is proposed to deliver information to support regional development plans and "those aimed at eradicating the scourge of poverty, "he said.
" We provided the medium term improvement in the current geo-informatics system for all our citizens can access in an expeditious manner, via the internet, mapping information to support their needs " .
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The IGM will work with DMAP to improve their services.
Army Public data are stored in an Oracle database, which can talk to other systems. Therefore, it was possible to relate to the company DMAP working with Autodesk software and fit the detailed information of the communes of Chile with the territorial IGM. He had no data from street to street of cities in Chile, DMAP is on track to deliver.
To view, click www.mapas.emol.com. There are already places like Llaillay, Chigwell, Zapallar, Cartagena or Papudo and there will be more.
"Combining the two situations, the user wins. For example, I can give references for utilities tended, not only from region to region, but also at every block, every post, even" says Alfredo Escobar, General Manager of DMAP.
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