Head Office of Geodesy and Cartography (GUGiK)

On July 31, 2021, eight Regulations of the Minister of Economic Development, Labour and Technology to the amended on July 31, 2020 Geodetic and Cartographic Law came into force. The introduced regulations concern changes related to, i.a. geodetic control networks, national register of borders, land and building registry, database of topographic objects.

The most significant changes include:

• introduction of web services as the primary forms of data publication (WMS) and its sharing (WFS),
• simplifying how data is shared,
• clarification of the regulations for creating and updating data,
• simplifying the data models and database structures,
• removing GML (XML Schema Definition - XSD) application schemes from the regulations and moving them to a separate repository,
• reduction of the amount of information stored in databases,
• requirement for digitalisation of documents,
• reclassification of the basic geodetic networks,
• drop of voidable values for object attributes,
• introduction of a new concept of the national GESUT database containing processed data from county databases concerning: hydrants, wind turbines, electric vehicle charging stations and telecommunication towers,
• reducing the number of buildings’ types from over 170 to just ten,
• adding visualisation of overhead power lines.

All the changes introduced by the regulations facilitate the use of geodetic data and simplify the structure of the overly complex state registers, thus increasing their validity and reliability. These changes will also further support the informatisation of geodesy, improvement of investment process, promote wide access to and use of spatial data.