The Murcia region has adapted the geoportal of Territorial Reference System (SITMurcia) to share spatial information in the Community with other regions and other countries.
This initiative responds to compliance with a European directive which requires communities to update their websites and data make it possible to exchange information with other areas.
Deputy Director General of Urban and Regional Planning, Antonio Ángel Clemente Garcia, architect Territorial Unit Information CARM, Maria Jose Hernandez, and the Director of the School of Civil Engineering, Channels and Ports and Engineering UPCT Mining, Manuel Aparicio, presented this morning the new portal to about fifty students from the Polytechnic University of Cartagena.
The SITMurcia dates from 2003. However, the European Directive INSPIRE forced to standardize geographic information services in Spain.
According to Deputy Director General of Planning, Antonio Ángel Clemente, "spatial information must be at the service of everyone, and with this new system anyone can unburden maps of the region and compare them to other areas wherever you are. So people of any the world can access the data of Murcia. "
To comply with the directive, it has been migrated geoportal 2003 and has created a specific database that is connected to the databases of various public authorities.
"The aim is to have in one place all the territorial information is from anywhere," he explained Clemente.
NEW orthophotography 2016
Also in SITMurcia are available orthophotos, ie, those that are taken from the air, from the Region of Murcia.
The first of which is known from the year 1929 and the last part of 2013.
However, according to advance the deputy general manager of Urbanism and is preparing a new orthophoto the territory of the region that could be ready next year, in 2016. "This allows us to see the dynamic modification of the territory of the Region of year Murcia ", he assured.
During his presentation, Clemente has also examples to the students of the university on how it has changed the territory of the region ten years ago today.
As indicated in the terrain, "a time of great urban development especially in Cartagena, where they have built many residential areas and in the region in the last 10 years have also made many infrastructure" has seen, he has Highlights.
For its part, the director of the School of Civil and Mining UPCT noted that portals like SITMurcia "are very important for all people who work with the land and give our students the advantage of being able to download the layers territorial information for projects. "
Source: UPCT