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My GIS Innings!
When we were in conceptualization state, a drama got set-in!Sometime in June-July 2000, one Mr KM Jagdish from ESRI, India landed in my office at Brindaban, Kamala mills Compound, Parel. I received him and in his presence ,the team went on discussing various strategies to move ahead .As usual I started assigning him some responsibilities, since I understood that he is joining Reliance GIS team. After completing the participation whole day, he stated"how come you are assigning me responsibilities? Rather I am supposed to head the department !" The whole team got the shock of their life.
When I questioned him- who promised you that position and gave you that commitment?, he responded saying that he is an expert in GIS from ESRI India and Dr Chandrasekhar, that time HR head for Reliance Communications(who happened to be an ex-HR member in ESRI India)have recruited him with this promise. That made me to take up with SM to resolve ASAP. SM being top management executive, he sorted out the issue then &there and closed it immediately .He made it clear to all that AR is the leader identified by the management. Then after, there was no issue & I made my set-up as two wings- One department made responsible for digitised map generation and the other for Network engineering including data base generation using Arc GIS software and various user application generation using GIS database.
Here it is important to mention how we went on generating maps for various cities and what factors /how we chose ESRI/NE as our partners for GIS. Reliance India Mobile system cannot forget the yeoman services of M/S Don Carson of ESRI and Michael of Network Engineer.
As all these tasks called for increase of core manpower, we recruited personnel with some map generating experience from national geographical institutions and ESRI for map portion and members from instrumentation fraternity identified from industries. Including me, the total was enlarged to 48. We ensured to post our team member in each state where Reliance Communication was planning to serve mobile services. Over&above that , we have drawn manpower on temporary basis from M/S BonAce, AarveeEncon, DSM &others totaling around 400. Somebody can wonder why such a high number was essential! Other than my core team, the new joinee in company role included M/S Sanjay Srivastava, Ashok Taomar, Anil Chaudhary in map group , Harshad Acharya, Boyer ,SalimPatel in NE group, Prashanth Kapre for database administration.
Map Generation
Though we started our task using only TTK and AAI printed maps, I was searching for valuable inputs from small time digitisation set-ups. At that stage, just to practice and gain an idea for attributes to be incorporated, I assigned the initial responsibility to Boyer and Badri to generate the NH routing as available in TTK maps/AAI data. Milind was supervising that generation and contributed valuable inputs for attributes to be picked. While discussing with various agencies in market, many of them told that there is a new satellite launched (IKONAS)in USA having 1 M resolution but there are restrictions in bringing that data to India. That time the available Indian satellite imagery was with 10 M resolution only. Here the term Resolution denote the data sensitivity- i.e the smallest object that can be sensed by that satellite while picking up ground data.
When I shared that information with MDA, he jumped with joy and packed me to Denver!
Contd......
Key Aspects:- Communication, Surprise&shock, Technical issue,
My GIS Innings!
When we were in conceptualization state, a drama got set-in!Sometime in June-July 2000, one Mr KM Jagdish from ESRI, India landed in my office at Brindaban, Kamala mills Compound, Parel. I received him and in his presence ,the team went on discussing various strategies to move ahead .As usual I started assigning him some responsibilities, since I understood that he is joining Reliance GIS team. After completing the participation whole day, he stated"how come you are assigning me responsibilities? Rather I am supposed to head the department !" The whole team got the shock of their life.
When I questioned him- who promised you that position and gave you that commitment?, he responded saying that he is an expert in GIS from ESRI India and Dr Chandrasekhar, that time HR head for Reliance Communications(who happened to be an ex-HR member in ESRI India)have recruited him with this promise. That made me to take up with SM to resolve ASAP. SM being top management executive, he sorted out the issue then &there and closed it immediately .He made it clear to all that AR is the leader identified by the management. Then after, there was no issue & I made my set-up as two wings- One department made responsible for digitised map generation and the other for Network engineering including data base generation using Arc GIS software and various user application generation using GIS database.
Here it is important to mention how we went on generating maps for various cities and what factors /how we chose ESRI/NE as our partners for GIS. Reliance India Mobile system cannot forget the yeoman services of M/S Don Carson of ESRI and Michael of Network Engineer.
As all these tasks called for increase of core manpower, we recruited personnel with some map generating experience from national geographical institutions and ESRI for map portion and members from instrumentation fraternity identified from industries. Including me, the total was enlarged to 48. We ensured to post our team member in each state where Reliance Communication was planning to serve mobile services. Over&above that , we have drawn manpower on temporary basis from M/S BonAce, AarveeEncon, DSM &others totaling around 400. Somebody can wonder why such a high number was essential! Other than my core team, the new joinee in company role included M/S Sanjay Srivastava, Ashok Taomar, Anil Chaudhary in map group , Harshad Acharya, Boyer ,SalimPatel in NE group, Prashanth Kapre for database administration.
Map Generation
Though we started our task using only TTK and AAI printed maps, I was searching for valuable inputs from small time digitisation set-ups. At that stage, just to practice and gain an idea for attributes to be incorporated, I assigned the initial responsibility to Boyer and Badri to generate the NH routing as available in TTK maps/AAI data. Milind was supervising that generation and contributed valuable inputs for attributes to be picked. While discussing with various agencies in market, many of them told that there is a new satellite launched (IKONAS)in USA having 1 M resolution but there are restrictions in bringing that data to India. That time the available Indian satellite imagery was with 10 M resolution only. Here the term Resolution denote the data sensitivity- i.e the smallest object that can be sensed by that satellite while picking up ground data.
When I shared that information with MDA, he jumped with joy and packed me to Denver!
Contd......
Key Aspects:- Communication, Surprise&shock, Technical issue,
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