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UNITED NATIONS SECRETARIAT ESA/STAT/AC.98/14
Department of Economic and Social Affairs 03 September 2004
Statistics Division
English only
United Nations Expert Group Meeting to
Review Critical Issues Relevant to the Planning of
the 2010 Round of Population and Housing Censuses
15-17 September 2004
New York
Integration of GPS, Digital Imagery and GIS with Census Mapping*
By
United Nations Statistics Division
DESA
* This document is being reproduced without formal editing.
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1. The recent technological developments, including new high-resolution sensors, global
positioning systems (GPS), geographical information systems (GIS), Internet and World
Wide Web services, are revolutionizing cartography, surveying and mapping in
fundamental ways: geographic data is easily collected and combined with a variety of other
data in order to create relevant information for spatial analysis and decision making.
Geographic information, in its digital form, is indeed exchanged more rapidly, duplicated
without alteration, and easily disseminated to end-users....
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