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SDI in Albania
S. Bushati, N. Frasheri
SEESDI09 Workshop
4-5 February 2009, Thessaloniki
Overall Situation
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Many organizations have collections
of spatial data
Few institutions have operational GIS
databases
Except Municipality of Tirana, there
are not online spatial data bases
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Legislation
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By law, Military Geographic Institute
is the top level organization for SDI
• Terrestrial, sea and airborne mapping
• Maintenance of geodesic network
• Archive of all spatial data produced
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Institutions with SDI 1
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Specialized
• Military Geographic Institute
• Meteorological Service of Aerial Forces
• Geological Service
• Agency for Legalization and Integration
of Informal Areas / Buildings
• Office for Registration of Real Estates
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Institutions with SDI 2
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Public Administration
• Ministry of Public Works, Transport and
Telecommunication
• Ministry of Agriculture, Foods and
Protection of Consumers
• Ministry of Environment, Forests and
Water Management
• Municipality of Tirana
• Institute of Statistics
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Institutes with SDI 3
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Research
• Institute of Geosciences
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Monitoring of seismic activity
• Institute of Energy, Water and
Environment
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Monitoring of hydrology and meteorology
• Exchange of spatial data with similar
institutes in the region
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Organizations with SDI 4
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ECAT-Tirana
• Non profit NGO
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GIS Albania
• Commercial
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Other SDIs ?
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Thematic spatial data collections
• Institute of Public Health
• Faculty of Geology and Mining
• Academy of Sciences (Library)
• Center of Albanology
•…
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On Line SDIs ?
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Usually spatial data may be available
by request and payment
Part of spatial data collected before
1990 are published and may be
available in some libraries
There are no [visible] spatial data
accessible through Internet
Only one case of Web Map Server
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Municipality of Tirana
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Web Map Server
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Buildings
Topography
Transport network
Services network
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Telecommunication
Water networks
Electrical energy network
• Planning for development
• Satellite image
• Download of images (png, geotiff)
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Tirana Map
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Thank You
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Q&A
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