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Establishment of Environmental Spatial Planning Portal in Turkey Ahmet Civi, Etem Akgunduz, Dilek Tezel, İlkem İlktan Gul, Gencay SERTER and Ezgi Sarmusak (Submission #130) Summary Establishment of spatial information infrastructure was made into a necessity by the “Information Society Strategy Action Plan" prepared by the State Planning Organization, and the Ministry of Environment and Forestry was defined to be the relevant institution on this subject. In Turkey, those institutions that are defined to be the relevant and responsible institutions concerning the establishment of spatial information infrastructure, conduct their studies considering the policies and directives set out by the European Parliament and Council. Ministry of Environment and Forestry runs the Project “Establishment of Spatial Environmental Plan Portal" in Geographical Information System environment based on INSPIRE and ISO TC-211 standards. Ministry of Environment and Forestry set out a requirement to transform the dispersed plan data that were produced by the Directorate General of Environmental Impact Assessment and Planning without a certain standard in the scope of “1/100.000 scaled Territorial Plans” into a form that can be compared, assessed, interrogated, developed and updated and that has a standard database. Through this Project, Ministry of Environment and Forestry aims at collecting the data of Territorial Plans on a single geographical database environment that is redesigned based on INSPIRE and ISO TC-211 standards; conducting the monitoring and inspection on database environment; and presenting to the relevant units via web. Thereby, it is provided for research, planning and decisionmaking units to reach institutional information quickly, to create necessary reporting and statistical data by making correct interrogation on current data, to present the created results on a multi-user environment on different medias at the institution. With the database design created in the scope of the Project, it is aimed to manage and update the geographical data used by the units, and to prevent data duplications. It is planned to integrate the territorial plans that is the sub-component of the project “Ministry of Environment and Forestry Development of Geographical Data Infrastructure" on a single database and in the framework of international standards. The Project covers all the data of 1/100.000 scaled Territorial Plan of the 11 Planning Regions (34 provinces) that was made by the Directorate General of Environmental Impact Assessment and Planning and of the 15 Provinces made by the relevant Governorship. The data of this plan constitutes the data resources of the project. The Project consists of three stages; namely the “Analysis and Design”, “Data Integration” and “Web Application and System Operation”. In the scope of analysis, the requirements are determined by examining all vectorial and graphical data and necessary studies are conducted to establish the design of new database. During data analysis, data features like data ownership, data quality, current situation are examined in detail in terms of metadata information and a database design is created in accordance with the metadata standard of INSPIRE and in a format to enter the metadata of each layer. After analyses are made and requirements are defined, it is designed how to organize these data in the database; information like data type, data definition, possible values of data, attribute information on data and metadata information are defined and a database design was established in compliance with data definition guides of INSPIRE. except for INSPIRE and ISO TC-211, data standards like OGC (OGC Working Groups), UML, XML were considered in the database design which was prepared on the basis of the analysis. The database design was transferred to UML diagrams, as in the data models published in the annex of INSPIRE Directive and guidelines were prepared for each layer, as in the INSPIRE data sets. The database was designed to be in accordance with topology structure of Geographical Information System and to work on multi-user environments. In the phase of creating symbologies related with the database, standard projections are used that are defined in the Annex of By-law on Territorial Plans of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry. A style file was created to be used by desktop geographical information system softwares and this file was made into a guideline. At the end of this phase, a general standards document was created to be the guide for establishment of Territorial Plan database that is to be formed later. In the scope of data integration, which is the next phase, graphical and verbal data of the present plans were transferred to the database whose design was completed. Transferring data to the database was made in compliance with the GIS logic, and verbal and graphical data loss did not occur at this phase. Besides, contrasting data samples and unnecessary data duplication were prevented through this, and the most effective use of time, manpower and present resources was demonstrated. Lastly, the database was transferred to the spatial database which can operate directly and problemfree on the relational database management system software, that is present at the Ministry, without needing any additional applications, and which can provide data transfer from one to another database, independent update of databases and synchronization of changes when requested. The web-based application software that was created in the last phase of the project, is being developed on the Advanced Geographical Data Server (ArcGIS Server Advanced Enterprise) that operates on the relational database management system at the IT Department of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry. With the application software, graphical data like administrative borders, land uses, protected areas, transportation and infrastructure and table data and reports can be queried, and various GIS analyses like buffer zone analysis will be able to be conducted. Besides, metadata query of data can be made through the application. At the end of this project, it was provided to make digital data of 1/100.000 scaled territorial plans to be redesigned, integrated and manageable. Categories Submission Type: Oral Presentation Submission Track: GeoPortals and registries