6. Access to cartographic spatial data and metadata
| Commitment Start and End Date: | 12.2022 - 12.2024 |
| Lead implementing agency: | Cadastre Committee |
| Person responsible from implementing agency: | Cadastre Committee |
| Title, Department: | Cadastre Committee |
| Email: | vahagn.muradyan@cadastre.am |
| Phone: | +60474132 |
Other actors involved
Other state actors involved
Ministry of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure, Ministry of Environment, Office of Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigoryan, National Security Service, Urban Development Committee, Ministry of High-Tech Industry, Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport, Ministry of Economy
Civil society, private sector
Other NGOs and organizations
Police Yerevan Municipality "EKENG" CJSC
"Hayantar" SNCO
Infrastructure management organizations
"Pan-Armenian Union of Geodesists and Land Managers" NGO
Issue subject to regulation
What problem does the commitment aim to address?
The functions of maintaining the cadastres (registers) of objects, property and resources under the management of a number of bodies of economic management the Republic of Armenia have mainly not been exercised or have been exercised incompletely, operate independently of each other, the data are repeated, sometimes contradictory, which essentially complicates the process of providing the administration bodies with the necessary information, and sometimes make it impossible to use the information available in different information databases or information systems for the efficiency of governance, development of effective programs, or effective implementation of programs of state importance.
The solutions to the above-mentioned problems relate both to bodies of the state administration system and those established by law and to natural persons. The comprehensive geoportal will provide an opportunity to analyze processes of public significance, such as declarations of officials, measures aimed at the prevention of corruption, etc.
Main objective
To ensure the access of basic cartographic spatial data and metadata to the public via a national geodesy portal with search functionality, by ensuring the personal data protection mode. The creation of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) will provide a portal updated continuously and online (block, land parcel, building, land fund, type of ownership cadastral layers are updated automatically) for users. The geoportal will provide the opportunity to view, search, analyze and process spatial data received from various sources on one platform. Conversion of spatial data will be ensured based on the principle of interoperability between various state bodies.
Brief description of commitment
To ensure the access of basic cartographic spatial data and metadata to the public via a national geodesy portal with search functionality, by ensuring the personal data protection mode. The creation of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) will provide a portal updated continuously and online (block, land parcel, building, land fund, type of ownership cadastral layers are updated automatically) for users. The geoportal will provide the opportunity to view, search, analyze and process spatial data received from various sources on one platform. Conversion of spatial data will be ensured based on the principle of interoperability between various state bodies.
OGP challenge addressed by the commitment
The functions of maintaining the cadastres (registers) of objects, property and resources under the management of a number of bodies of economic management the Republic of Armenia have mainly not been exercised or have been exercised incompletely, operate independently of each other, the data are repeated, sometimes contradictory, which essentially complicates the process of providing the administration bodies with the necessary information, and sometimes make it impossible to use the information available in different information databases or information systems for the efficiency of governance, development of effective programs, or effective implementation of programs of state importance.
The solutions to the above-mentioned problems relate both to bodies of the state administration system and those established by law and to natural persons. The comprehensive geoportal will provide an opportunity to analyze processes of public significance, such as declarations of officials, measures aimed at the prevention of corruption, etc.
Relevance to OGP values
1. How will the commitment promote transparency?
Works performed by state administration bodies will be available to citizen via spatial data.
Natural persons or the local self-government bodies of the Republic of Armenia will be exempt from the fee for provision of information for information requested on their property, except for the fees prescribed for access to the National Geoportal.
The access to the National Geoportal, with search and view functionality, will be ensured free-of-charge. Search of metadata via the Geoportal will be free-of-charge, and the functionality of viewing and searching certain spatial data — free-of-charge partially.
2. How will the commitment help foster accountability?
Works performed by state bodies will be reflected in the National Geoportal, which will provide the opportunity to public supervision, as a result of which the accountability of the bodies of the state administration system and the LSGBs will improve.
3. How will the commitment improve citizen participation in defining, implementing, and monitoring solutions?
Citizens will be provided with the opportunity to receive free-of-charge information on spatial data and metadata (except for certain regulations), as well as respond — in the form of messages — to the information found in the National Geoportal.
Ambition
It is recommended upon this Commitment to ensure the access of the public to basic cartographic spatial data and metadata via establishing a national geodesy portal. The NSDI will provide a portal updated continuously and online (block, land parcel, building, land fund, type of ownership cadastral layers are updated automatically) for users. The geoportal will provide the opportunity to view, analyze and process spatial data received from various sources on one platform.
The draft Law "On spatial data” will prescribe approaches to updating spatial data — currency and objectiveness of data. State bodies collecting, creating and disposing of spatial data, which provide the spatial data collections and services, must create, provide and disseminate relevant metadata, as well as maintain and update them in accordance with spatial data collections and services. The rules of creating, maintaining and updating spatial data and services metadata will be prescribed by the authorized body coordinating the sectors.
Pursuant to the requirements of Article 75 of the Law "On state registration of rights to property", natural persons shall be exempt from the fee for provision of information for the information prescribed by points 11.1-12 and 15 of part 1 of Article 73 of the Law (with respect to documents photocopied for up to 10 pages) requested on their property or property rights.
Information on the data of the State Unified Real Estate Cadastre, except for unified information, shall be provided to the Staff to the President of the Republic of Armenia, Office of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia, Staff and Deputies of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia, bodies of the state administration system of the Republic of Armenia, Marzpetarans, courts of the Republic of Armenia, Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Armenia and other criminal prosecution bodies, the Central Bank of the Republic of Armenia, the Audit Chamber of the Republic of Armenia, autonomous bodies and independent state bodies, the Human Rights Defender of the Republic of Armenia, and the Head of the Office of Public Defender free-of-charge, for exercising the powers vested therein by the law of the Republic of Armenia.
Information provided to the bodies of the state administration system as prescribed, as well as cadastral, topographic or land management maps may be transferred by the latter to other persons only based on a decision of the Government, for which a relevant compensation shall be allocated to the State Registry of Real Estate
Potential Impact:
Implementation status
UN Goals
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