A 70, 000 euro project to electronically map out Seychelles’s 25 districts is due to complete in September 2006.
The Swiss expert responsible for the project, Marc Soutter says the use of GIS technology “will be a vital tool for developers, students and tourists alike to use the data into more interactive ways.”
The project is sponsored by the International Association of French-speaking Mayors.
Geographic information system (GIS) is a computer-based tool for mapping and analyzing referenced geographical data.
The director for the GIS Centre, in the Ministry of Land Use and Habitat, Francis Coeur de Lion, explains that “GIS technology integrates common database operations such as query and statistical analysis with the unique visualization and geographic analysis benefits offered by maps.”
The technology was introduced in Seychelles during the early-1990s and the department of local government is the latest state agency to use it.
It is being used in town planning, creation of a coastal sensitivity atlas, and management of wetlands, agriculture and other infrastructure such as water pipes, electric poles and drainage system.
Its mostly ministries responsible for natural resources and land use which are making use of this system.
Yet the use of GIS is still in the development stage in Seychelles and presently no data are available online, but this should be operational before the end of 2006.
Mr Coeur de Lion, says “the Centre has already acquired and tested appropriate software, designed for Internet mapping and web GIS, which allows users to access geographic information through their web browser. The long term plan is to encourage more public access to such datasets.”
One such initiative is a UNEP sponsored program aimed at getting the islands of the western Indian Ocean and East African countries alike to collect and share data through a regional portal, that will address the major environmental problems and issues related to the degradation of the marine and coastal environment resulting from land-based activities in the region.
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