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11.03.2005 On February 17-18, during the City and Township Days, AS Datel launched its new geoinformation portal technical environment, which called forth lively feedback by the representatives of the local governments. DoGIS is an open technology, based on standards and specifications, which allows to integrate data and map applications from different sources via web services into complex services for the target customer.
“As a result of a longstanding technical development of map solutions, mostly for the land development office, we have come to an understanding of how a flexible and configurational environment of a geoinformation portal for the creation of map solutions should look like, for it to also be as convenient as possible for the target user,” explained Villem Alango, member of the Datel board. “That is why we have developed an open and leading solution, corresponding to standards and specifications and integrating web services, which we call DoGIS and whose particular purpose for the local governments would be the services to be offered to the target user, which are created with the help of the DoGIS.”
The main stronghold of the DoGIS-technology is the fact that it is compatible to other open GIS environments and so it best serves the state and local governments for the use and application of GIS-based information and for offering new and useful services to the citizen.
With the help of this technology it would be possible, for example, to combine map information stored in the state information systems and geo databases stored in the local governments or detailed plans presented by companies amongst each other without having to place them into one common database. These databases can again be used in an integrated way for the constitution of registry of map outs, where there is a need for today, which, however, has not sufficiently been met for the lack of an appropriate technology.
According to Alango the DoGIS, as a product, is particularly useful for local governments because it allows for flexible, effective and fast compostion of map applications for the target user. “Apparently the applications of the land department office as well as many of the existing services for the target user will be transferred to this technology and also the already existing applications may become much more flexible, ” noted Alango, “for with the help of DoGIS, it is possible via internet to bring to the user for example base maps of the local governments (KOV) or of the state power supplier Eesti Energia (EE) and at the same time data, to be stored in a virtual office, may already come in as well from another organisation and after the changes being done it can be saved back there where it came from.”
Among the presently active projects Datel is already using the DoGIS technology in the development of the map out registry of Tallinn, in the creation of a GIS-interface for the registry of buildings and in the application for the local governments ordered by the land development office for the specification of price and fertility zones.
Additional information:
Villem Vannas
tel 677 9876
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