Policies and standards for building Turkey National GIS Infrastructure
Tahsin Yomralioglu & Arif Cagdas Aydinoglu
Turkey started e-government actions to build Turkeyys National Spatial Data Infrastructure titled as Turkey National GISS (TUCBS or TRGIS in English) in 2004. TRGIS actions aim to enable effective use and sharing of geographic data on electronic communication network by developing standards, policies, and technologies. Consecutive actions determined current situation and general vision. However, requirements could not be determined on production, management, and sharing of geographic data. The General Directorate of GIS in Turkey was established in 2011. Projects were triggered to define geo-data standards and to build legal and administrative structure of National GIS. Hereby, national GIS strategy and the legislation framework were determined to manage geographic information. General administrative structure was designed for the National GIS committee and working groups. National GIS portal with its metadata standard is being built to share geographic information. As a result of analyzing existing geo-data, data requirement works, and international standards; Data Specifications were designed for 10 reference geo-data themes in Turkey. These standards are being tested to use in GIS projects corporately.
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