Georgia: The first meeting of the National Spatial Infrastructure (NSDI) Coordination Council of Georgia was held on November 21, 2024, Thursday.
The meeting was chaired by the Chairman of the Council, First Deputy Minister of Justice Tamar Tkeshelashvili and heads of the ministries and other government agencies of the Council participated in its work.
The Council, along with the strategy and action plan, also discussed and adopted 9 field specifications and technical regulations, a project of which was developed by the NSDI coordinating agency. The National Agency of Public Register of the Ministry of Justice sent the instructions to the Coordinating Council and corrected them by their proposals and comments.
Legal and technical regulations, created by the best international experience, will establish a unified standard for the production and sharing of spatial data in the country. As a result, the data of different institutions will be compatible with each other, as well as with the EU spatial data infrastructure (INSPIRE).
The Coordination Council “On National Spatial Data Infrastructure” was established according to the law of Georgia, based on the establishment of the government. It aims to support the creation, operation, and development of NSDI, thereby developing e-governance and public administration.
Functional NSDI will promote effective public governance at government, field, and municipal levels, develop location-based services, and facilitate informed (data-based) decision-making for the private sector.
It should be noted that the Public Register, as well, will create the NSDI National Geo Portal. On the portal, spatial data manufacturing entities will place and make publicly available all spatial data in Georgia, which will be compatible with the EU spatial information infrastructure (INSPIRE).
After the discussion on the Council, NSDI will submit strategic, field, and technical documentation to the Government of Georgia for approval.
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The National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) is a means to assemble geographic data nationwide to serve a variety of users. GIS applications of many different disciplines have a recurring need for a few themes of data.
