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Government GIS

Japan carries out surveying projects

By Clarice Africa | 9 June 2011

The Geospatial Information Authority of Japan is currently carrying out surveying projects in accordance with the country’s long-term plan for basic surveys, which covers basic surveys for the ten-year period from 2009 to 2018.

A spokesperson from GSI told FutureGov Asia Pacific that the initiative aims to avoid redundancy in surveys and to assure survey accuracy by publicly announcing the target and scale of the Basic Surveys in advance.

“Geospatial information such as survey results plays an important role in appropriate national land management such as prompt response to disasters as well as the conservation of a favourable environment,” the spokesperson said.

The Long-Term Plan has been established approximately every ten years since it was established in 1953. The last plan was established in June 2004 which aims to establish an environment in which all geographic information will be easily accessible to anybody, anytime and anywhere.

In 2007, the Survey Act was revised to specify the electronic distribution of survey results and the promotion of one-stop-service for approving the reproduction and use of survey results.

“There is an increasing demand for geospatial information, and with that we are continuously doubling our efforts to promote shared use or secondary use through the development and free provision of fundamental geospatial data, which is the framework information as the positional reference for geospatial information,” the spokesperson said.

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