Welcome to FIG3 - Spatial Information
Management
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The 2009 Workshop and Annual Meeting of FIG Commission 3 on
“Spatial Information for Management of Sustainable Urban
Areas” took place in Mainz, Germany, from 2nd to 4th
February 2009. The technical program included the opening
session, 9 technical sessions, and the closing session; in total
55 papers were presented. In total 73 participants had
registered to the workshop coming from 24 countries.
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Commission 3 at the 9th Congress of Metropolis: Trends
in Megacities – Metropolis Congress 2008 - Sydney, Australia, 22-25
October 2008 - Report
from the Congress by Paul Kelly
FIG Working Week 2008 in Stockholm, Sweden, 14-19 June
2008
Commission 3 Annual Meeting was held in Stockholm, Sweden
during the FIG Working Week 2008, 14-19 June 2008, web site of the
conference:
www.fig.net/fig2008. Proceedings, technical sessions and papers are available
at: www.fig.net/pub/fig2008
Commission
3 Annual Report for the General Assembly as a .pdf-file.
Conference web site:
http://www.psdatm.gr/fig_com3_wpla.htm
Commission 3
FIG Commission 3 deals with activities concerning
- Management of land, property and hydrographic information and the
related processes, procedures and resources
- Spatial data infrastructure - data models, standards, availability
and legal aspects, management of spatial knowledge
- The impacts on organisational structures, business models,
professional practice and administration
- Management of spatial information supporting sustainable
development.
The mission statement of Commission
3 is to
- Bringing awareness to successful SIM approaches in the
“Information Age” by showing good practice like reliable spatial
information for better decision making. Decision makers on all levels
expect reliable spatial information and not only maps.
- Supporting the use of SIM-tools for decision makers and
citizens to support the goals of participatory democracy
- Share good practice on managerial processes and infrastructure
needed for handling data, using information and distributing
knowledge.
- Encouraging decision-makers for a more extensive use of spatial
information also within good e-government and e-commerce.
- Criterion of success: to initiate and provide activities so
interesting that colleagues will regard the commission as one base on
their professional lives.
- Progress activities mainly through working groups (WGs) and Joint-WGs,
which will participate in the planning of workshops and short seminars
held during and outside FIG working weeks; submit progress reports
about these events.
- Present the final outcomes of Commission work as reports,
statements and/or publications accessible also through the web.
Chair of FIG Commission
3
Dr. Chryssy A. Potsiou
School for Rural and Surveying Engineering
National Technical University of Athens
9 Iroon Polytechniou Str
15780 Athens
GREECE
Tel. + 30 10 7722 688
Mobile phone: + 30 944 710 817
E-mail: chryssyp@survey.ntua.gr |
FIG Commission
3 Webmaster
FIG Office
Kalvebod Brygge 31-33
DK-1780 Copenhagen V
DENMARK
E-mail: FIG@fig.net
Tel + 45 3886 1081
Fax + 45 3886 0252 |
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