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Monday, October 24, 2011

First Interactive Mapping Portal in the World

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Coordinating Agency for Surveys and Mapping Agency aka Badan Koordinasi Survei dan Pemetaan Nasional (Bakosurtanal) launched the most comprehensive mapping portal in Indonesia. This map can be used by the community to move the economy to cope with the disaster.

Geoportal contains mapping information previously scattered in various government agencies in Indonesia. Geoportal is a container that holds the mapping information of this?

"With the Geoportal, the islands of information can be integrated into a single interface," said Head Bakosurtanal Asep Karsidi the launch of the "Indonesia Geoportal" at the Grand Sahid Jaya Hotel, Jakarta.

Asep sure Geoportal presence could encourage national development. In Indonesia, 90 percent of economic activity involving geospatial data.

Deputy Data Infrastructure Bakosurtanal Jusuf Surachman declared demographic information complete Geoportal can be used for the benefit of an emergency, eg disaster. Indonesia is frequently hit by disasters now have a mapping guidance in the face of disaster.

"Portal can be used to display the total losses, the area affected, and determine the location of evacuation of citizens," said Jusuf. Interestingly, Geoportal also connected with various social media services. Thus users can find information in real time distributed by citizen journalists via Twitter and YouTube.

Until now data on the Geoportal donated by 14 Government agencies. Some of these institutions are the Ministry of Transportation, Ministry of Public Works, Ministry of Agriculture, and National Land Agency aka Badan Pertanahan Nasional (BPN).
Geoportal make Indonesia as the first country to have an integrative thematic mapping service interactive web-based. Indonesia ahead of the United States, which also intends to launch this service. As for Malaysia also has a mapping geoportal, As for Malaysia also has a geoportal mapping, but in a simplified version that is less interactive. The page can be accessed through the address Geoportal http://maps.ina-sdi.or.id. *** [ANTON WILLIAM | KORAN TEMPO 3680]
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