India’s own Geographic information system (GIS) dubbed ‘Bhuvan‘ is now available for download. Bhuvan is currently under beta and is tipped to be as good as (if not better) Google Earth and Wikimapia! It is capable of India specific features, not available in any other competing product. Bhuvan features multiple layers of information showing topography, altitude, depth weather and other features helpful in managing public services, internal security, town planning, and infrastructure development activities.
The web-based portal requires an initial plugin download in order to provide promising high-resolution 3-D satellite imagery with smooth video acceleration, Bhuvan offers images of the globe similar to Google Earth but provides best resolutions over the Indian sub-continent with ISRO having plans to expand high-resolution images globally. Bhuvan offers resolution up to 10 meters. Bhuvan can take closer pictures of the Indian Subcontinent as compared to the Google Earth. Bhuvan is capable of taking a zoom level of up to 10 meters, while Google Earth features a zoom level of up to 200 meters.
On the negative side, Bhuvan can only be run off the site, post-login. This means permanent traffic jams. You will get kicked off regularly. The user-interface has good, deep menus but lacks much in the way of help though this is common to most beta-releases. Bhuvan can only be used off Windows platforms, through an Internet Explorer browser with DirectX and MS.Net installed. It is not a “full-screen” app since it sits inside IE. It can only be run off broadband connections that are at least 756Kbps in speed.
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August 16th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
looks great… cant wait to see US version
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Raju Reply:
August 24th, 2009 at 9:17 am
I do not expect to see the US version anytime in near future
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August 17th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
remember bhuvan is in still beta testing phase.
to see india in detail next bhuvan version will need proof of indian citizenship.
think of the amount of information it delivers..thnaks to ISRO
after the launch of the site (http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in/ ) 2 days it was down due to over load of traffic. overnight another site by the name http://bhuvan2.nrsc.gov.in/
was created and started to operate. by this time only one site exists http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in/
and its fully working.this was what the confusion is. u can download the plugin called terraexplorer ,once opened the site in IE u can see the 3d globe…
and better the speed of connection better it performs in terms of detail.
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August 19th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
How to download in mobil
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August 21st, 2009 at 11:36 am
it very good
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August 24th, 2009 at 7:52 am
mera bharat maahan….our indian scientists are great i proud of them
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Raju Reply:
August 24th, 2009 at 9:17 am
You bet!!
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August 28th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
Indians are always great, one more time indian prove that, altho Bhuvan is in beta stage, it is very good then other Geography software.
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August 31st, 2009 at 4:21 pm
i am going now to use it as others
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September 29th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
it’s very useful to each indian
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October 27th, 2009 at 12:11 am
please ensure Bhuvan and google were not an gateway for any more terrorist attack.
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