Map Malaysia 2006 conference....

Hi there, today was my duty (ok lah... I dun really like conferences) to assist at the ESRI South Asia booth (Palace of Golden Horses). Its tiring... to stand and answer questions... but at the same time its fun to meet old buddies and make new friends. Also I manage to find out ... this blog has a few ardent followers, like real only ;-)

I think this is the first Map Malaysia conference... its like the subset of Map Asia conferences... organised by GIS Development. Actually today we saw a lot of support from the government departments... mainly JUPEM, MACRES and MacGDI.

Anyway, besides the ESRI booth (and re-runs of Jane Goodall's speech from the last ESRI User Conference, of course)... a few others caught my attention... mainly:

• Astronautic Technology (M) Sdn. Bhd. - a few of their current (very interesting) projects are RazakSAT (Malaysian remote sensing satellite) and the Tsunami early warning system
  
• Cilix Corporation - they are currently protoyping an aerial imaging system (hardware and software) with MACRES together with some Chinese expertise.
  
• USC Solutions - Their Vidar 3D model builder is really something. You can practically build 3D models and shapes from any 3D support format - i.e. VRML etc Imagine having to build real life models for cities, slopes, terrains, rivers or even seabed mapping instantly.
  

Check it out.

p.s. also browse Jane Goodall's work here: http://www.janegoodall.org/