Nepal - maps and more

LESS MEANS MORE – NTDB AT SCALE 1:100 000 Published in Nepalese Journal on Geoinformatics Number 6, BS 2064 Since the very beginning of our childhood we always wished for more and more of many things.  We wished more happiness, success, money, satisfaction and so on.  Most of the times, we are satisfied if we have more of the things we are looking for.  A child is much happy if he has more and more toys to play with.  A student waiting for the examination result is wishing more and more marks in each and every subject.  An employee naturally wishes for more and more salary from his job.  Well, this can be continued for more and more cases.  There are things which we always want less and less if not nil.  A child naturally wants less and less comments from his guardians, a student wishes for less and less ho...

ONE PLUS ONE IS MORE THAN TWO – MAKING OF THE POPULATION AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC ATLAS OF NEPAL Published in Nepalese Journal on Geoinformatics Number 4, BS 2062 Survey Department and Central Bureau of Statistics are two major data producers of HMG Nepal .  Survey Department is mainly responsible for producing different types of maps and Central Bureau of Statistics is mainly responsible for providing population and socio-economic data.  Working together can produce a wide spectrum of products needed for overall national development.  This “The Population and Socio-Economic Atlas of Nepal ” is a good example in this regard.  Building a right team, exploring and using existing facilities eg. softwares are some of the reasons behind the successful production of the Atlas.  This paper presents some of the major aspects of the making of “The Population and Socio-Economi...

LET US GIVE A THOUGHT Published in Nepalese Journal on Geoinformatics Number 5, BS 2063 Change has been a universal truth since the very beginning of the human civilization.  The requirements of the human society have called upon changes in every field of society – philosophy, politics, economy, social structure and so on.  Most of the times such changes have proved to be beneficial to the society and have added fuel to modernize and facilitate livelihood of human beings.  This is the way we have come through the road of time.  And our today is a part of never ending journey of such changes.   The surveying profession has not been left aside by such changes and during the course of time surveying became much improved and indispensable scientific field.  Developments in the field of Physics, Chemistry, Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing, Photography, computing technologies, industrialization, Mechanics, Communication Sciences and so on have played a great role i...