Gwangju City to Produce Latest Digital Topographic Maps by Year-End

Gwangju City Hall

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Gwangju Metropolitan City announced on the 20th that it will promote the 1/1000 digital topographic map revision and renewal project to upgrade the changed terrain and landmark information to the latest information by the end of this year.

A digital topographic map is an electronic map that expresses various spatial information such as locations on the ground, terrain, buildings, and roads using shapes, symbols, and attributes according to a certain scale, based on aerial photogrammetry technology.

This project, jointly promoted with the National Geographic Information Institute, targets 52.5㎢ in 34 neighborhoods including Ilgok-dong and Bongseon-dong in the old downtown area, which have not been updated for a long time since the first production in 2008, with a total project cost of 1 billion KRW.

Gwangju City plans to add location and attribute information of six major underground facilities including water supply and sewage, gas, and communication pipelines in this renewal project, to be used as basic data for various administrative systems closely related to citizens' lives such as urban planning, roads, traffic, regional development, architecture, fire services, and disaster management.

The related information will be provided free of charge through the National Land Information Platform starting next year.

Lee Su-won, head of the Land Information Division of the city, said, "We plan to provide the latest spatial information to citizens through continuous annual updates of digital topographic maps," and added, "We ask citizens to actively cooperate when surveyors visit for on-site geographic surveys."

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