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Global Map (GM) was born as a product to replace previous IMW (1: 1 000 000) with a new map in digital form with the homogeneous standards for entire globe. The primary objective of GM is to contribute to the sustainable development through the provision of base framework geographic dataset as necessary for better understanding the current situatio...
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... On October 25 th 2009, the GML (standardized in ISO 19136) format has replaced the former VPF as the official distribution format of GM data, which provides a standard format for transferring digital geographic data (Idrizi et al., 2011). The Global Map product will encompass the entire globe, at a scale of 1:1 million. ...
... On October 25 th 2009, the GML (standardized in ISO19136) format has replaced the former VPF as the official distribution format of GM data, which provides a standard format for transferring digital geographic data (Idrizi et al., 2011). The Global Map product will encompass the entire globe, at a scale of 1:1 million. ...
Today, the development of economic and financial situation concerning the protection of environment and natural resources in a wider scope depends on the use of geospatial data. One of the main aims of the infrastructural organization of geospatial data is to provide users to be capable of acquiring complete, exact and updated dataset at the right time. This is necessary for providing an ideal environment, where all stakeholders can work collaboratively in an effective way, in order to solve environmental issues and to achieve their targets. Global Mapping (GM), a project established by United Nations, is one of the crucial contributions to the development of Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI). This case study on Albanian GM dataset was aimed at performing analyses of infrastructural organization of geospatial data in global-intercontinental level. Data standardization of GM as contributor of GSDI was analyzed through developed Albanian GM dataset. The main components taken into consideration for performing research analyses were data and metadata, technology, institutional framework, policies, interoperability, network services, search opportunities, and data sharing within GSDI. The main findings of this study are the necessity of infrastructural organization of geospatial data in the global level, known as GSDI, by including official geospatial datasets developed by the national mapping organizations of countries all over the world, in order to be used for environmental monitoring and protection, as well as for early warning management in international level. Finally, based on the research results, four conclusions for GSDI are offered, in order to be considered as guideline for further development of unified and globally homogeneous infrastructure of spatial data set.
... Throughout the empirical literature, digital mapping methods have been used extensively in the physical sciences, particularly for gauging current human-environmental phenomena and for future projections. Such examples include the investigation of global environmental issues (Idrizi, Meha, Nikolli, & Kabashi, 2012), calculations on the global costs of fishing (Lam, Sumalia, Dyck, Pauly, & Watson, 2011;Stewart et al., 2010) and other food security issues (Matsumura et al., 2009), the preservation of global forests (Potapov et al., 2008;Wulder, White, Magnussen, & McDonald, 2007), as well as the effects of climate change and water availability (McDonald et al., 2011). These and other studies that mapped ecological sustainability via a process of global mapping (Sutton, Anderson, Tuttle, & Morse, 2012) are of great interest to our work as they each, in their own distinctive way, set out to develop new methods for measuring anthropogenic environmental impact. ...
The project of mapping sustainability initiatives across a region is part of a larger program of research about place and sustainability education for the Anthropocene, the new geological age of human-induced planetary changes (Zalasiewicz, Williams, Steffen, & Crutzen, 2010). The study investigated the location, nature and type of sustainability initiatives in the Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia. The purpose of the study was to trial the development of a place-based survey questionnaire to map initiatives in education for sustainability across a region in order to understand how they emerge in local places. The data from the survey was interpreted using a combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches. This article focuses on the qualitative thematic analysis across all survey responses and assesses the findings in order to determine the usefulness of the approach. The study found that a regional place-based approach enables a different conceptualisation of the possibilities of a cross-sectoral interconnected system of sustainability education. The nonformal and informal sectors are important sites of innovation and have great potential to enrich the pedagogies of education for sustainability in the formal sector.
SUMMARY
International Steering Committee for Global Mapping (ISCGM) is an organization located at Authority for geospatial information of Japan in Tsukuba, established in year 1996, composed by representatives of geospatial information authorities of respective countries and by the experts in this field, in order to promote the Global Mapping Project, as well to develop global geospatial information needed to solve global-scale issues, to provide them widely, and to promote the use of global information in cooperation with the respective countries (iscgm.org, September 2016).
Being the whole world is divided into different continents and countries that follows various institutions, which develops the geospatial data with the same or different standards; it is thought that the global geospatial data to have same standards, so they can be used to be exchanged in order to reach the analysis of a problem; more easily and at a low cost.
The main purpose of this project is global data collection of geospatial data from all states and interested organizations to develop and to have easy access to digital geographic information at global level of scale 1:1.000.000 for vector, as well 30” spatial resolution for raster data. This is useful to equip the implementation of international/global agreements and conventions for environment protection, for supervision of major phenomena of the environment and encourage economic growth. Global Map also contributes in development of spatial data in global level (GSDI-Global Spatial Data Infrastructure).
The Republic of Albania, within the project for the compilation of the global map dataset is represented by the State Authority for Geospatial Information (ASIG), as the responsible institution for Albanian cartography at the national level. Preparation of Albanian GM dataset has been proceed in academic level within the geodesy department of the Polytechnic University of Tirana, with aim to support, help and improve the Albanian cartography. Existing topographic maps in scale 1:25.000, ortho photo images from year 2007, satellite data, as well as the official data from governmental institutions has been utilized as source data.
In this paper, in details is shown the whole process of data compilation, quality and outputs of Albanian Global Map vector dataset.
Key words: Global mapping, Albania, ISCGM, Global Map, vector data, transportations, population centers, boundaries, drainage.
4. CONCLUSIONS
By its' efforts, ISCGM has managed to implicate Global Map as part of the "Implementation Plan" of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (World Summit on Sustainable Development - WSSD) held in Johannesburg (August-September, 2002). At that meeting it was decided that the project's compilation of Global Map completed by the end of 2007, as well as GM's data be updated each five years.
All European countries have joined the GM except countries like Montenegro, Belarus and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Albania is the last country participated to the project, as well last European country has been released its GM dataset. Releasing the Albanian GM dataset, will fill a big gap of Balkan Peninsula, due to non-participating of two countries!
Climate change is a process by which facing the world in these days, and automatically create a need that we geospatial data global of which can manage a various emergencies such as natural disasters, floods, earthquakes, mudslides, volcanoes etc. As more states to be part of GM, as more geospatial data we have, the easier it will be the management of emergencies. By including Albanian GM dataset in Global Map, direct contribution on regional environmental analyses will be enabled.
With the Global Map dataset being in digital form, it lends itself to various data manipulation and for modeling real life situations. Global Map dataset may have limited uses at national and local scales, however Global Map dataset is needed to address global, regional, and trans-boundary and in many cases national concerns. Therefore, the Albanian GM dataset as latest updated data set will support all type of spatial analyses.
Albanian Global Map data set can be downloaded from the web site www.iscgm.org, intended for non-commercial use (research, academia, students etc.). In a case of need for usage for commercial purposes, interested institution must obtain permission from the ASIG, otherwise, each unauthorized use for commercial purposes is in conflict with the law on copyright and related rights which is prohibited and punishable.
From September 2016, based on the letter of approval from ASIG, the Albanian GM data set has been migrated to the United Nations Geospatial Information Section (UNGIS), due to decision for transfer of GM data to UNGIS database, which has been formalized on August 2016, at New York, during the final (23rd) meeting of ISCGM.
Publisher:
Geo-SEE Institute, Skopje, Macedonia www.geo-see.org
Editor-in-chief:
Dr. Bashkim IDRIZI, Mother Teresa University, Skopje, Macedonia
Associate editor:
Dr. Lyubka PASHOVA, National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
Technical editor:
Dr. Ferim GASHI, University of Prishtina, Prishtina, Kosova
Editorial board:
Dr. Temenoujka BANDROVA , University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Sofia, Bulgaria
Dr. Rahmi CELIK, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
Dr. Vlado CETL, Faculty of Geodesy, University of Zagreb, Zagreb
Dr. Joep CROMPVOETS, Public Governance Institute, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Dr. Mahesh GAUR, Central Arid Zone Research Institute, India
Dr. Subija IZEIROSKI, Geo-SEE Institute, Struga, Macedonia
Dr. Reiner JAEGER, Karsruhe University of Applied Sciences (HsKA), Karlsruhe, Germany
Dr. Ismail KABASHI, Vermessung Angst ZT GmbH, Vienna, Austria
Dr. Milan KONECNY, Geography department, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Dr. Elena KOTEVSKA, Faculty of Technical Sciences, University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Bitola, Macedonia.
Dr. Aferdita LASKA-MERKOCI, University of Tirana, Institute of energy water and environment, Tirana, Albania
Dr. Bozena LIPEJ, European Faculty of Law, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Dr. Gerhard NAVRATIL, Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria
Dr. Pal NIKOLLI, University of Tirana, Tirana, Albania
Dr. Gabor REMETEY-FULOPP, Hungarian Association for Geo-Information, Budapest, Hungary
Dr. Guenther RETSCHER, Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria
Dr. Vladimir S. TIKUNOV, Faculty of Geography, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Rusia
Dr. Sasho TRAJANOVSKI, Hydro Biological Institute, Ohrid, Macedonia
Dr. E. Lynn USERY, Center of Excellence for Geospatial Information Science, U.S. Geological Survey, Rolla, USA
CONTENTS:
1. JENGO, a prototype mobile application based on crowd sourcing for LIS
Ádám PODOLCSÁK, and Orsolya KATONA 7
2. Contemporary GIS-based methodological approach for assessment of optimal locations for exploatation of solar-energy potentials
Subija IZEIROSKI, Elena KOTEVSKA, Sotir PANOVSKI, and Igor NEDELKOVSKI 23
3. On the accuracy of the GIS mapping base of Vlora
Adelajda HALILI, and Pal NIKOLLI 39
4. The usage of GNSS for determination of 2d geodynamic changes of Skopje valley
Zlatko BOGDANOVSKI, and Zlatko SRBINOSKI 49
5. Developing of the Albanian Global Map dataset;
Milot LUBISHTANI, and Bashkim IDRIZI 61
