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Making UNTDB data intelligent for Emergency Delivery to Planning ServicesMechanisms for Permanent and Reliable Solution
Hamed Al Kaabi
UAE Military Survey,
UAE
Email: hamed@uaesurvey.ae
UNTDB is designed to serve various geospatial data needs in the country. Geospatial data in the database need to be linked with adequate information to serve these requirements. MSD have adopted many methodologies in collecting such information. The exercises, however, could not provide fully successful results and hence remaining as a major challenge. Even though field survey proved more reliable, collecting attributes for whole country is not practical. Collaboration of MSD with some of the agencies for geo-referencing attributes maintained by them, found very practical. Similar exercise could be carried out with other agencies in the country, so that required amount of attributes maintained by them is geo-referenced and linked with UNTDB.
Collaboration with various agencies is expected to give information for most of the spatial data representing building feature. Most likely, remaining non-attributed buildings will be residential units. Particularly to cover these entities and in general, to locate each and every buildings in the country a unique national identifier is proposed. The approach is similar to one recommended by UK Ordnance Survey for their MasterMap database. The identifier can be used to connect together different databases to derive meaningful information without complex overlay analysis. The paper illustrates proposed concepts and methodologies towards achieving reliable and permanent solution for making UNTDB data useful for emergency and home delivery to urban and regional planning services.
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