On behalf of our Ministry, General Directorate of Geographic Information Systems has participated to the II. International Symposium on Urban Renewal, which was held in Antalya Harrington Park Resort Hotel between 11-12 September 2014, by opening stand.
Besides, in the session named “Land Management in Turkey”, our Deputy General Director Asst. Assoc. Dr. Hüseyin BAYRAKTAR has performed a presentation named "Land Management Data Infrastructure in Turkey".
After describing briefly the duties and authorities of our General Directorate, Dear BAYRAKTAR had talked about the projects is being carried out. Also, mentioning about determination of national geographic data standards, studying the 11 main themes, by identifying the coordinator and responsible institutions describing data standards of Urban Information System (UIS) for local governments, the pilot studies on basic data themes of UIS, dissemination of UIS with cloud computing, true orthophoto project, plan automation and plan archive system with plan process ID project, Atlas project, geoportal project, Regulations About the Establishment and Management of National Geographic Information Systems and legislative studies, the training activities with distance education, the cooperation protocols with organizations; he had conveyed current affairs.