Activities in Republic of North Macedonia

Producing Smaller Scale Topographic Maps

Background of the Project :

In a line with previous JICA project "The Development Study for Establishing of a State Geographic Information Database" which purpose was to support development of basic GIS data and making of a 1:25,000 national base map, there is increase demand by Macedonian Government and private sector for small and medium scale map. Small scale maps are needed for various purposes such as cell phone company coverage planning, setting aviation routes, infrastructure planning such as roads and water pipes, and planning gas pipes. However, the Agency for Real Estate Cadastre, responsible for providing spatial data, does not posses 1:50,000 topographic maps and can not meet this needs. Therefore, Macedonian Government requested to the Government of Japan to dispatch experts to transfer technology for making small and medium scale topographic maps, by adjusting the scale of 1:25,000 maps that was formulated during the previous project.

• Project type : Expert Dispatch Program
• Project objective : Capacity to producing smaller scale topographic maps will be enhanced.
• Project sites : Skopje
• Duration : May 2011 − July 2011
• Executing Organization : Agency for Real Estate Cadastre (AREC)
• Project outputs : Topographic maps (1:50000, 1:200000, and 1:500000) for selected area will be produced based on the existent 1:25000 map.
• Activities

  1)	To evaluate the quality of maps which were produced by AREC.
  2)	To evaluate the mapping procedures in AREC
  3)	To advise and to suggestion for producing maps based on existent map.
  4)	To suggest AREC for current production procedure