Cartography to Geoinformation: Three Decades of Public Service from Andalusian Regional Administration
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Abstract
Thirty years of regional management about a subject such as cartography, which in the heat of new technology has evolved so much in recent years, contributing in the Andalusian case, an extensive experience which is what this paper aims to demonstrate.
This article shows how, starting from a precarious situation regarding the availability of cartography, competency management related to planning and land use, and passed to a self-production which, over time , in response to the administration and society demands, is becoming more diversified.
It is behind the character with which the sector of cartographic work was conceived, to become a horizontal activity within the administration, a role that is reinforced because of the confluence, in same office, the Institute of Statistics and Cartography of Andalusia, to skills in cartography and statistics.