{"id":127245,"date":"2021-08-19T18:22:30","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T12:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=127245"},"modified":"2021-08-19T18:22:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T12:52:30","slug":"online-applications-inaugurated-making-geospatial-data-collected-by-government-freely-easily-available-to-citizens-and-organizations-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/online-applications-inaugurated-making-geospatial-data-collected-by-government-freely-easily-available-to-citizens-and-organizations-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Online applications inaugurated making geospatial data collected by government freely &amp; easily available to citizens and organizations in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=1746703\"><b>PIB<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The government of India has launched three web portals to offer the geospatial data collected by the Survey of India and the National Atlas and Thematic Mapping Organization(NATMO) either free or at a nominal cost.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are those three web Portals?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><b>GEO Spatial Data Dissemination Portal:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Developed by: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Survey of India(SOI).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Purpose:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The portal is a rich repository of maps and functionalities. It will provide in various downloadable formats of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">4,000 maps with national, state, district and tehsil level data.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><b>SARTHI Portal:<\/b><\/h5>\n<ol>\n<li><b>Developed by: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Survey of India(SOI).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Purpose: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">geographic information system(GIS) that will help users in creating applications for geospatial data visualisation, manipulation and analysis without a lot of resources at their end.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h5><b>MANCHITRAN Portal:<\/b><\/h5>\n<ol>\n<li><b>Developed by: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">National Atlas &amp; Thematic Mapping Organisation (NATMO)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Purpose<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: It is a\u00a0 geo-portal that showcases the huge, authenticated, and valuable data that NATMO acquired during its long 65 years of service.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h5><b>A<\/b><b>bout <\/b><b>Survey of India(SOI):<\/b><\/h5>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>SOI is the <\/b><b>National Survey<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and Mapping Organization of the country under the Department of Science &amp; Technology.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>It was established<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in 1767. It is the oldest scientific department of the Government of India.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Headquarters:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Dehradun, Uttarakhand<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>About <\/b><b>National Atlas &amp; Thematic Mapping Organisation(NATMO):<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><b>NATMO <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is a subordinate office under the Department of Science &amp; Technology.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Mandate<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: It is <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">involved in the compilation of the National Atlas of India. Apart from that, it also makes National Atlas in regional languages. NATMO also helps in increasing speed and efficiency in the field of mapping with the help of installation of Automated Mapping System. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">t also offers training to geologists who want to venture into this field.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Headquarters<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Kolkata, West Bengal<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: PIB What is the News? The government of India has launched three web portals to offer the geospatial data collected by the Survey of India and the National Atlas and Thematic Mapping Organization(NATMO) either free or at a nominal cost. What are those three web Portals? GEO Spatial Data Dissemination Portal: Developed by: Survey&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/online-applications-inaugurated-making-geospatial-data-collected-by-government-freely-easily-available-to-citizens-and-organizations-in-india\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Online applications inaugurated making geospatial data collected by government freely &amp; easily available to citizens and organizations in India<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1703734989},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}