about day, maybe every city will ha...

about day, maybe every city will have its admit satellite. At least several U companies think in this way They are rushing to launch satellites that will allow them to strive for the projected $3 billion initial market for high detail images previously available sole to the world's intelligence community.

unless for Cupertino, Calif., that day is here. In Cupertino, Public Works Director Burt Viskovich and GIS Database Coordinator Tim Stone are awaiting the planned launches this year of private enterprise satellites carrying sophisticated imaging equipment for recording earth features. The pair dioceses satellite imagery as superior to digitized paper maps — the general format for the city's maps — for civil engineering, planning, presentation and city management contrives The two anticipate that, by dint of the end of the hundred years the city's entire map database will be digital orthophotos and space images.

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