Open Spatial Data Infrastructure Active Learning and Teaching Methods in Practice

There is an increasing need for spatial data to be used for informed decision-making and as a resource for developing innovative products and services. A Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) facilitates access to and sharing of spatial data by providing a framework in which technical and non-technical aspects are established. Traditionally, SDIs...

Development and Usability Testing of the Participatory Urban Plan Monitoring Prototype for Indonesian Smart Cities Based on Digital Triplets

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) prescribed justice, strong institutions, and partnerships to encourage citizens' participation and inclusion. Goal 11 addresses urban areas: “Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.” The SDGs are impossible to realize without the involvement of cities and municipalities....

The role of land administration domain model and spatial data infrastructure in improving ease of doing business in Indonesia

Land management has four functions that are interlinkage to each other: land tenure, land valuation, land use planning and land development. These functions are the foundation of Indonesia's new strategy for improving its Ease Of Doing Business (EODB), directly in dealing with construction permits and registering property. Ideally, each permit...

Assessing the Openness of Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI): Towards a Map of Open SDI

This paper introduces the Open Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) Assessment Framework as a new approach for assessing the openness of SDIs. Open SDIs are SDIs in which non-government actors such as businesses, citizens, researchers and non-profit organizations can contribute to the development and implementation of the SDI, use spatial data with...

Designing Open Spatial Information Infrastructure to Support 3D Urban Planning in Jakarta Smart City

Land administration is essential for urban planning and Spatial Information Infrastructure (SII). Interoperability of land administration and spatial planning will determine the success of SII utilization. This information should be accessible to all member of SII, including businesses and the community. This article proposes spatial planning...

Worldwide status of national geoportals 2016

A geoportal is a type of web portal that is used to find and access geographic information and associated geographic services (e.g., display, editing, analysis) via the Internet. Geoportals are important for the effective use of geographic information systems (GIS) and are a key element of Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) (Crompvoets, 2016).<br...

3D Cadastre Development in Hungary

Geometric part of the Unified Hungarian Land Registry (Cadastral maps) has been operating in standardized environment since 1996. MSZ 7772-1 Standard on Digital Base Map (developed by Institute of Geodesy Cartography and Remote Sensing, FÖMI) — based on the pre ISO and CEN standards on Geographic Information — defines a 3D relational database...

The impact of access policies in the development of a national GDI

Within the context of Geodata- and Service Infrastructures (GDI) access-to-government data policies are important the existence and successful use of the data, and the success of the GDI itself. Two access doctrines are dominant in the literature: open access policies and cost recovery policies. Many researches have attempted to compare open...

Dutch NGII on course: a practical approach on implementing a vision

Many countries are developing or starting to develop National Geographic Information Infrastructures (NGIIs). The Netherlands Council for Geo-information stimulates the development and further implementation of the NGII in the Netherlands. The publication of the visionary Ravi-document Structuurschets in 1992, promoting the establishment of four...