Development of a geographic database of Gran Resistencia according to the standard specifications for international IDE.

RAMIREZ, MIRTA LILIANA; FALCON, VILMA LILIAN; PERTILE, VIVIANA; SNAIDER, PATRICIA; MONZON, NORMA BEATRIZ

Santiago de Chile

Congreso; 24th Congreso Internacional de Cartografía.; 2009

Asociación Internacional de Cartografía e Instituto Geográfico Militar de Chile.

The Spatial Data Infrastructure is a grouping of resources used to Geographic Information, that is available on the Internet, and it fulfill certain conditions for interoperability (standards, specifications, protocols, interfaces, and so on), and that allows a user, with a browser, use it for their needs. (See MAGANTO SANCHEZ, A. 2008) The project denominated "Development of a Geographic Database in accordance with the specifications of IDE international standards" , arises as a result of a specific need observed in our environment, which was noticed by researchers of the Geography Institute and from the Technology Laboratory of Geographic Information, of the Universidad Nacional del Nordeste (UNNE) and the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)-Argentine. So in 2006 we presented this idea to the call for Technical Cooperation Projects, which is annually presented by the Geography and History Panamerican Insitute ?IPGH- and the same was approved under the number 2.1.1.11.1. The studied area is the largest settlement in the province of Chaco (Argentina), is a conglomerate of four municipalities: Resistencia, Barranqueras Port, Vilelas Port and Fontana (Metropolitan Area of Gran Resistencia, AMGR now) and brings together around 362,000 inhabitants, according to 2001 Census. Despite its common problems, these municipalities operate independently, that generated a large geo- information in different formats and presentations, disregarding the international norms that guide the production of geodata. Initial efforts were aimed at collecting geodata and the search for those who truly were elaborated in accordance with the minimum requirements for space treatment, soon we consider the remarkable importance of metadata in relation to land information, which led us to worry about this issue. The emergence and importance of Spatial Data Infrastructures, took us, as an institution of academic research and teaching, to consider the possibility of working together, towards strengthening ties of commitment, responsibility and sharing of geo-information between municipal and provincial government agencies and helping them toward building the IDE of AMGR. In this context we have set the objetives in the next section.