China's GIS Industry

Wednesday, November 29. 2006

Per China Economic Net locally made GIS software, unlike other software, has become wildly successful in that country.

At present, the market share of most domestically produced software accounts only about 5 percent in such fields as operating system, database, and office software while domestic GIS software outshines all the others in the market of GIS software with a high proportion of over 35 percent, thus having broken the monopoly of foreign software in that field.

There are more than 1,000 enterprises engaged in the development of GIS software and applications, and the annual production value realized through the sales of commodities like software has amounted to a few hundred million yuan.

The article mentions but one product, however: the Chinese Academy of Sciences SuperMap, which produces SuperMap GIS, which is not only popular in China but has enterred the Japanese market.

The article notes an annual growth rate of 35 percent for GIS, I believe that means in China.

Posted by Adena Schutzberg at 06:20 | Comments (4)

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Just to point a fine point on this as it came up in conversation with Chris Bradshaw of Autodesk...China looks at its software development industry in terms of its national security. Do you really want to purchase an operating system for your military establishment from a U.S. company like Microsoft. Likewise, do you want to rely on a U.S. company for GIS? So, the thinking goes that there are many entrepreneurs in the making in China developing "home grown" GIS software so that it will reduce the country's dependency on foreign vendors.

#1 Joe Francica (Link) on 2006-11-29 08:31 (Reply)

Is it just me or we can't reach the article's URL? Thanks

#2 Alexandre Leroux (Link) on 2006-11-29 16:47 (Reply)

Alexandre,

I can get it fine. I could fine no other reference for it at this time, sorry.

Adena

#3 Adena Schutzberg (Link) on 2006-11-29 17:21 (Reply)

I understand the desire to not depend on another country for technology that has a national security implication - such as reliance on GPS, GIS, etc. However, why can't I find a good site that allows me to see a map of a city other than Beijing or Shanghai (point to point directions, etc) that is in english?

#4 Tom on 2008-01-23 02:31 (Reply)

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