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Promoting of the importance of spatial data and recommendations for NSDI improvement

Improvement of NSDI greatly depends on promoting the importance of spatial data in society. One of the key factors in this promotion is education of NSDI subjects, the whole GI market and community in general. Although previously there has been some research on NSDI awareness, the WG for Capacity Building conducted new research with the main goal of analysing the existing situation of exchange of spatial data in Croatia. The intention was to get an insight into availability of spatial data and the mechanisms of their access, as well as into the legal framework and internal rulebooks that define exchange of data. Results of the research show that: • the national services of spatial data are not functioning, • the knowledge about existence, usage and possibility of data exchange is very limited, the procedure of obtaining data is not clear, and the problem of not being informed of the existence of individual data should be particularly emphasized. In general, the subjects of NSDI are not well informed about the existence of NSDI and its possibilities. Promotion of the importance of spatial data should be directed mostly towards users and institutions that run individual registers. Raising NSDI awareness should be directed at the entire user community. Besides, it is extremely necessary to work on creating NSDI capacities for the training of user community to accept the NSDI concept.

NSDI; Croatia; data exchange; capacity building

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