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[GISDevelopment News] USA-G-Tek Solutions is optimistic in the use of KML file format and believes it will become more popular as a means of reducing production costs related to GIS. The objective of the software is to provide an alternative means at viewing data to organisations that may not have a huge budget and to help non-GIS users view data without expensive GIS software.

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