Initial Organizational Studies on National Spatial Data Infrastructure at Government Level

A Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) is a coordinated series of agreements on technology standards, institutional arrangements and policies that enable the discovery and use of geospatial information by users for a range of purposes. While SDIs have economic, social and environmental benefits, they require inter-disciplinary organizational, coordinated studies to preserve the ecology and for sustainable development. Turkey is moving towards a spatially enabled society underpinned by a national geo-spatial data infrastructure, called TNSDI (Turkish National Spatial Data Infrastructure). In this article, the initial organizational studies and action plans in Turkey for TNSDI are described.