Pakgis
Pakistan GIS is an initiative to promote GIS development in Pakistan. It is a web blog through which improved cooperation among GIS scientists, educators, GIS professionals, and students can be established. PakGIS works to promote research and innovation, better use of technology, and providing knowledge and support for individuals using Geographic Information Systems and science, and tends to provide GIS/RS data of Pakistan free of cost.
History
In 2009, two students from the Department of City and Regional Planning, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore took the initiative to establish a platform for GIS/RS professionals in Pakistan where they can access and share GIS data free of cost. With professional backgrounds in urban planning, Khydija Wakil and Muhammad Qadeer attempted to find ways of how GIS and RS data can be created freely in Pakistan and how it can be used in various applications of urban management. See PakistanGIS for more details.
INITIATION 2009
PAKGIS is going to be initiated by Planners' Resource Center, which is the first and largest forum for urban planners in Pakistan to share a digital library of books, tutorials, satellite images, aerial photographs, scanned and digitized maps, and applications of GIS and open source GIS in urban planning in Pakistan, etc.
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