Map India 2000 : Recommendations

Map India 2000 : Recommendations

10 - 11 April 2000, Hotel Taj Palace, New Delhi, India

We, a congregation of several hundred GIS professionals, scientists, policy-makers, users, industry entrepreneurs assembled here in this historic city of Delhi attending Map India 2000, the 3rd Annual International Conference on GIS/GPS and remote sensing, organised by the Centre for Spatial Database Management and Solutions (CSDMS) on April 10-11, recognise the potential of Internet mapping sciences in meeting the challenges of the overall growth and development.

We recommend the following:

The National IT Task force has recommended the dissemination of spatial data through Internet. A clear-cut policy on map publication and distribution on the Internet needs to be framed taking care of the security concerns of the country. The policy should also address the issues of data availability to the common man, its accessibility, dissemination and standardisation.
The Government of India has instituted an annual award to recognise the government web sites providing e-governance services. A similar award may be instituted by the government for the best Internet GIS usage by any government agency.
Data generating agencies need to make greater use of Internet for information dissemination, which will also lead to standardisation of geographical data in terms of storage, retrieval, display and analysis.
There is an urgent need to review and liberalise the existing policy on aerial photography.
The Department of Science and Technology would set up an agency on a permanent basis to receive suggestions from various government, Non-government and private agencies for suitable modifications in the map restriction policy. This agency should take up the issues with concerned organisations responsible for framing such policy every six months and get the changes made.
Realising the importance of geographic information infrastructure, Map India 2000 supports the regional and global initiatives by the United Nations Region Cartographic Conference (UNRCC), the United Nations Economic and Social Commission of the Asia Pacific (UN-ESCAP), Regional Space Application Programme for sustainable development, The Global Resource Information Database (GRID) programme, the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), the International Federation of Surveyors (FIS), the International Geographical Union, International Cartographic Association, ISPRS, Global Mapping, Digital Earth and the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI).

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