Track: State/Local Government, Cadastral, Land Records
Town Planning to Pizza Delivery - CGIS Data Facilitate Public Services: An Experience from National Geocoding Project of the State of Qatar
Abdul Salam MohammedQassim Mohammed Ali Al Ghanim , Ali Mohammed Al Sulaiti
The Centre for GIS maintains a high-resolution digital topographic database that is being used by many in the country from highly technical jobs like town planning to simple everyday jobs like pizza delivery. The demands for digital data facilitating public services are increasing in the country. Since there is no one-to-one correspondence between a given building polygon on the topographic database and its use in real life, quite often it becomes very difficult to meet such demands. The objective of the National Geocoding project of the Centre for GIS is to solve these problems. The project will georeference around 100,000 plots and several streets in the country, which involves updating the already existing Qatar Area Reference System (QARS) database, collecting new data, making a dynamic database, as well as creating applications that will be linked to all the agencies, via GISnet-FDDI link, located geographically. A massive amount of data is to be collected and stored, which will have a tremendous impact on interagency cooperation on data sharing. The paper is an attempt to explain how the project will bring out the true spirit of GIS in Qatar involving the general public, which is the ultimate goal of CGIS.
Abdul Salam Mohammed
The Centre for GIS
PO Box 22088
Doha,
QATAR
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E-mail: abdulsalam@gisqatar.org.qa