Commission 3

FIG Commission 3

Minutes of the Annual Meeting in Istanbul

Date of Meeting:

Monday 25^th September 2002, 17:10-18:45

Place of Meeting:

Lecture Hall of Technical University of Istanbul, MACKA Campus

1. Welcome address; Opening

Chair of Commission 3, Gerhard MUGGENHUBER, welcomed

the President of FIG, Bob Foster,

the Director of FIG Office, Markku Villikka

the President of Turkish Chambers of Surveyors, Hysein Ülkü

all attending delegates of Commission 3 (FIG3),

all attending correspondents of Commission 3 and

all guest at the commission meeting

and opened the Commission Meeting.

2. Adoption of Agenda

Proposed agenda for the Commission meeting was adopted.

3. Introduction of Participants

After a short self-introduction of each of the participants (list of participants see at the end of minutes) Gerhard presented the new FIG3mascot . Proposals of names for the mascot are welcomed (Please send an e-mail including the proposed name to the Commission Chair Gerhard Muggenhuber)

4. Report of the Commission Chair

Gerhard Muggenhuber presented the new structure of Commission 3 that was adopted from the General Assembly during the FIG Congress in Washington DC (April 2002) and gave a short overview about the work plan of Commission 3 Working Groups and inter-commission activities:

WG 3.1 – e-Government and e-Citizen

WG 3.2 – SIM infrastructure

WG 3.3 – State of the art of SIM

WG 2.4 (joint working group with Commission 3) – Knowledge Transfer in SIM

3D-Cadaster (Inter-Commission Activity of Commissions 7 and 3 – leaded by Comm.7)

The detailed Working Plan of FIG for the period 2002 – 2006 is available in a digital format at the FIG-Homepage.

Regarding the work of FIG Commission 3 during the period 1998 – 2002 (Chair: Jes Ryttersgaard; Secretary: Tor Valstad) the two FIG publications were an essential outcome:

FIG-Publication 30:
The Nairobi Statement on Spatial Information for Sustainable Development. 2002;
pdf-file (maintained by FIG Bureau)

FIG-Publication 31:
Land Information Management for Sustainable Development of Cities.
Best Practice Guidelines in City-wide Land Information Management. 2002;
pdf-file (maintained by FIG Bureau)

Finally Gerhard informed the participants about recent events that are connected to the topics of Commission 3:

FIG Commission 3 Annual Meeting in Nairobi, Kenia (Oct.2001)
FIG Congress in Washington, DC (April 2002)
GSDI Conference in Budapest (Sept.2002)
UN-ECE-WPLA – Workshop in Vienna (Sept.2002)

Markku Villikka summarized the results of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD Johannesburg, August 2002 ) www.johannesburgsummit.org

5. Report of FIG3 Commission Working-Group Chairs and Task Forces

Kari Strande (Chair of Working Group 3.1) gave a short overview about the proposed activities of WG 3.1 and invited colleagues to cooperate in issues of “eGovernment and eBusiness”.

On behalf of the Chair of Working Group 3.2 Keith Murray, who was unable to attend the Istanbul meeting, Mark Probert introduced the aims and objectives of WG 3.2. Amongst the deliverables of the Working Group on “SIM Infrastructure” will be at least three case studies, covering

· Location Based Services

· Integrated Land and Property Services and

· Contemporary Industries.

(see also the OV Presentation given by Mark).

After an overview about the working contents of WG 3.3 (“Development and State of the Art of SIM”) Chryssy Potsiou presented the first results of her working group, which can be seen on the web page of Working Group 3..3. Chryssy would be happy about contributions for the proposed worldwide analysis and best practice guide for institutional structures of SDI, but she is also collecting information about the contents of national databases (meta-database about SDI).

6. Incoming events

Gerhard reported about two incoming events concerning FIG, namely

· the FIG Handover ceremony during the Intergeo 2002 in Frankfurt (October 2002) and

· the FIG Working Week and 125th Anniversary in Paris, France 13-17 April 2003.
http://www.regardsinternational.com/figww2003.html or http://www.fig.net

7. Any other business

The president of FIG, Bob Foster, thanked the Turkish colleagues for their successful organisation of the GIS2002 Conference and for the great hospitality.

8. Closing including FIG Commission 3 song

Gerhard Muggenhuber thanked the participants of the Annual Meeting for their coming and contributions and the Commission Meeting was closed with the FIG Commission 3 song. The text for this song written by Kari Strande was a short summary of the whole conference.

Participants:

F.Zerah ALKAN, Reha M. ALKAN, Sis ALKAN, Arif Fagdas AYDINOGLU, Esra BOZYAZI DAYLAN, Serkan COSKUN, Yerach DOYTSHER, Ilhan EKINCIAGLU, Robert W. FOSTER, Nurcihan IPEK, Enikö KOVACS, Jukka KRISP, Peter LAARAKKER, Reinfried MANSBERGER, Anne K.M.MOURITSEN, Gerhard MUGGENHUBER, Muzaffer NAVRUZ, Güner ÖNSEL, A.Fahri ÖZTEN, Eva PAUKNEROVA, Chryssy POTSIOU, Mark PROBERT, Mmuso RIBA, Muhammed SAHIN, Faik Ahmet SESLI, Maxim SHOSHANY, Kari STRANDE, Pelin TEKINSOY, Huseyin ÜLKIJ, Markku VILLIKKA, Hasan ZENGIN.