Poland

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Data Sources

• main institutions are the polish cartographic survey GGK (Glówny Geodeta Kraju, Master Surveyor of Poland) and Glowny Urzad Geodezjii i Kartografii (Geodesy and Cartography Main Office)
• CODGiK (Central Office for Geodetic and Cartographic Documentation)
  • conducts a digital data repository for Poland (in various scales: 1:10K - 1:1000K)
  • sells some digital data, and has information on coverage of other polish maps and cartography visualizations
  • Index for aerial photos of Poland
• www.geoportal.gov.pl is the new geo-portal for the country, site is all in Polish
• reported about elevation data: "DTM is diverse and depends on area of PL.  Resolution starts from 50 x 50 m; through 40x40 and 25 x 25, and ends on 15 x 15 m. BUT in some voivodes DEM is available in resolution 10x10 m. Formats of DTM are usually DGN (Microstation) ... and sometimes in ESRI or Mapinfo."
• LIDAR
  • As of 2007, they have begin LIDAR-scanning the country, with a project called ISOK, "Computer System National Guards against extraordinary threats".
  • The goal is from 4 to 12 points per m2.

Misc

• detailed overview of forestry in Poland (as of 1997)
• the voivod (plural voivodes) is the political division, similar to a County or Province, each with a governor, and some have a cartographical information centre (WODGiK)
  • WODGiK Warsaw
  • Mazowsze Voivod on-line map
  • WODGiK Katowice
  • instead of a WODGiK, Mazowieckie Voivodship has BGWM which has lots of digital data incl. DEM 10x10m
• University of Silesia is creating a dataset about Upper Silesia and Cracow-Częstochowa Uplands
• A Historical GIS of the city of Lublin (2012)
  • Made using the Google Earth plugin, site is all in Polish.
  • By floating a textured surface above the Google surface, they can provide their own elevation and imagery, with 3D building models also floating to match.
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• contact: Tomasz Nycz ( t_nycz@strazNIESPAM.tgory.pl )
  • in Bytom, Geography Student's Science Centre - University of Silesia (SKNG US) Faculty of Earth Sciences, Sosnowiec, Silesia voivodship
• contact: Misio ( piotrpad@priv1.onet.pl )
  • he says: "I've got some computer maps (roads, lakes/rivers, bigger hills, cities, city maps etc.) but rather poor source of data."
• contact: Grzegorz Galezowski ( g.galezowski@mobilecomputing.pl ) in Świdnik
  • he has created a VRML file of Świdnik with simple road and building blocks - see Świdnik 3D