1. Global to Local or Local to Global?
Ravi Gupta
Editor,

2. Who participates in GSDI?
Mostly National Level Mapping Agencies
Survey
Remote Sensing
Environment
Agriculture
Census ..

3. National Mapping Agencies
Work at 1:50,000 or 1:25,000 scales
Not necessarily suitable for local government needs
Little institutional linkages between local governments and NMAs
Local Governments may not necessarily see mapping as an important need

4. New Institutions needed?
National Mapping Agency
State Mapping Agency
District Mapping (Agency)?
Block Mapping Officer?
Village Mapping Officer?

5. Any other way?

6. Get ‘them’ converted Corporatisation of Municipalities
Ahmedabad, Bangalore
Urban Planning initiatives
Delhi, Bangalore, Calcutta
Utility Management
NOIDA, Calcutta, Mumbai, Delhi
Externally aided projects
Mirzapur, Kanpur
E-governance projects
Hyderabad, Karnataka (BHOOMI)
NGOs
Mathura

7. Get ‘them’ converted Participatory Resource Mapping
Kerala
Orrissa
Faridabad
Sindhudurg
Any many other similar initiatives

8. Interesting trends Not directly relying on NMAs
Public – private participation (due to lack of staff)
Not afraid of trying out new ways of doing things
New funding mechanisms
New technology

9. Present Scenario Primary / Secondary
Data from National Mapping Agencies
Physical
Procurement
National
GIS
Programmes
Present Scenario
Central/ State/ District Government
Dissemination / Usability / What next?

10. Data from National Mapping Agencies Central/State/ District Government
Primary / Secondary
Data from National Mapping Agencies
Physical
Procurement
National
GIS
Programmes
Internet
Central/State/ District Government
Local Project
Local Project
Local Project
Local Project

11. Why go local?
Local level planning may be best done by locals themselves
Need of facilitators to help the community
To get empowered to develop it’s own information base
To explore it’s own solutions
Long term sustainability of the intervention ensured
The ‘usage’ of technology may increase manifold if the community is involved in the database development exercise
Maps  Applications  Usage

12. Local Initiatives Isolated efforts
Islands of excellence (or vice-versa)
Lack of standard guidelines
May face problems in future integration with NSDI
NSDI efforts have to outreach to them

13. Creation of a new community
Thinking fresh
Thinking new
Not afraid to experiment
Innovative
Bypass the traditional mindset barriers prevalent in the NMAs

14. Way forward Let them do it on their own
No one agency can do all this anyway
More than 1,000 towns still to be mapped!
Develop standards and guidelines
Disseminate them well
Encourage ‘them’ to follow these guidelines

15. What does it mean to the NSDI?
Decentralised system of development of NSDI
Can be a win-win model
Will bring a new flavour of new types of people getting into the mapping business

16. Local to Global?

17. Thank you Ravi Gupta Ravi.Gupta@GISdevelopment.net