fig congress 2018 - Spatial open data initiative for Turkey
Wasim Shoman, Fatih Kafali and Fatih Gulgen
The core of Open Data is releasing government's accurate and updated data in accessible and usable forms to the public to use it freely. The emerging of this phenomenon helped communities gain several benefits in several aspects such as raising citizen's awareness, increasing government's accountability and transparency and provide new job opportunities for the society. These benefits encouraged other governments to implement such initiative, especially for spatial data. Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality made a decision to start such initiative in its efforts to make Istanbul a smarter city. Applying such relatively new phenomenon compels investigating the spatial data releasing mechanism to assure maximum sound benefits. This study investigates the main spatial Open Data principles that identify this data from other data types and illustrates the standards, recommended data domains, categories and data formats the governmental spatial data should be published with. The paper identifies Turkey's current status and upon that concludes the research by identifying the proper steps required to implement a successful initiative.
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