National Institute of Design is stepping into rarefied fields. The institute may set up a task group if it gets a nod from the Union Ministry of Science and Technology for its two-year mission to evolve a design-oriented geo-visualisation technology. Geo-visualisation, a technology that was so far restricted to niche areas like defence and earth observation, can help solve wider issues like that of food and water in India, using design as the bedrock. Geographic visualisation (geovisualisation) is the use of visual tools like cartography or GIS to understand phenomena on the earth's surface.