CROATIAN TOPOGRAPHIC DATA UPDATING
I. Racetin1, M. Lapaine2
1 - Geodetic Bureau Split
2 - Faculty of Geodesy University of Zagreb
ivana.racetin@st.htnet.hr
The making of topographic database
of the Official Topographic Cartographic Information System (STOKIS) at scale
of 1:25 000 is close to its end in Croatia. It is a great success for the
country that survived massive war devastation just 10 to 15 years ago. The
State Geodetic Administration (SGA), private sector and the Croatian Geodetic
Institute (CGI) are involved in STOKIS topographic database making. They are
considering all European and world standards in that field and also the demands
of the INSPIRE project in that production. The STOKIS system has structure
similar to that of the German Official Topographic Cartographic Information
System (ATKIS). Today in Croatia, as in many other European countries with
similar systems, we are coping with the question how to place a product such as
topographic data to the market. In every case, one of the solutions is to make
it as close to the user as possible. Today, a cartographic product user is much
more demanding than only few years ago. He expects fast and exact information,
reachable in every place of the Earth. That is why cartographic community has
to get closer to those demands as soon and as efficient as possible. Croatian
STOKIS topographic data are 1-10 years old. As such, they cannot completely
satisfy all potential STOKIS users. Soon, the time will come when Croatia will
have to find certain solutions that will satisfy potential users. One of them
is to find efficient updating methods on short-term and long-term basis.