Fundamental Cartography Production On SDI Framework

Abstract:-. Usually, every country has specific organisms in charge of the design, production, spread and update of fundamental cartography. Each one of these organisms produces cartographic projects with the procedures, tools and staff better adapted to its objectives. Final result of cartographic campaigns are usually products that are presented on paper or other tangible formats. During the last years, cartographic organisms offer as one of their products the digital cartography, that is much more versatile if the end user applies appropriate computer tools. Specially with the spread of the Internet, GPS navigators and Geographic Information Systems (GIS), digital cartography has turned into one of the main products which has reveal the need of establishing a network of cartographic servers for the organisms that use geographic information. In this way, some national (IDEE) and European (INSPIRE) initiatives are being developed. We should support these meritorious initiatives, that should go beyond the current approaches. In this paper the need of change of the approach and the way cartography is produced is reviewed, as well as the advantages that would appear based on the Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) framework