IDEZAR: AN EXAMPLE OF USER NEEDS, TECHNOLOGICAL ASPECTS AND THE INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK OF A LOCAL SDI

This paper illustrates the IDEZar project, a project that mainly consists in the development of a local Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) in Zaragoza (Spain) in order to get an improved management of spatial data available in the City Council of Zaragoza and to provide several online services to its citizens. The authors detail in this paper the initial analysis performed (strictly necessary, due to an initial chaotic situation) so as to plan the next steps towards a successful SDI implantation, the actual progress of this implantation and the benefits and applications obtained as a result. Apart from that, they also describe the components of IDEZar SDI (available data, technical aspects, inter-institutional relationship, user dimension, institutional framework), their experiences (problems encountered), some concluding remarks on modeling a SDI framework, and finally, the future work directions.