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Geographic Information System (GIS)

In 2011, meetings of the Executive Technical Group on Geographic Information System (GIS) and Cartography were held. The “Technical Guidelines for the Development of the COSIPLAN Geographic Information System”, were approved at the Third Ordinary Meeting of COSIPLAN Ministers (Lima, November 2012).
 
The Working Group on the COSIPLAN Geographic Information System (GIS) and Website was created by the
COSIPLAN Ministers at their Fourth Ordinary Meeting (Santiago de Chile, November 2013), the coordination of
which was commissioned to the Republic of Argentina. In 2013, a technical assistance amounting to S$230,155 from the UNASUR Common Initiatives Fund was approved to be allocated to the development and implementation of the COSIPLAN GIS.
 
 
PURPOSES
 
  • Provide COSIPLAN with a georeferencing tool to guide the territorial planning in South America by developing a Geographic Information System (COSIPLAN GIS); and
  • Build a COSIPLAN website containing the objectives and contents agreed upon by the countries to become a tool ensuring the transparency of the activities undertaken within the framework of COSIPLAN.
 
MAIN TECHNICAL ASPECTS AGREED UPON BY THE COUNTRIES
 
  • Reference scale: 1:250,000
  • Reference system: SIRGAS (Sistema de Referencia Geocéntrica para las Américas)
  • Data’s coordinate system: Latitude/Longitude
  • Feature Cataloguing and Feature Concept based on ISO 19110 and ISO 19126.
  • Metadata: The Latin American Metadata Profile (LAMP) designed on the basis of ISO Standard 19115, developed by ISO/TC211
  • Data Availability: Native ESRI Shapefile format. Internet access to the data should be possible through WMS and transactional WFS.

Documents
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  • COSIPLAN Geographic Information System 2015

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    June 2016

  • Creación del Grupo de Trabajo sobre SIG y Página Web del COSIPLAN

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    November 2013

  • Lineamientos Técnicos Básicos para el Desarrollo de un SIG del COSIPLAN

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    November 2012

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