Reference information for spatial management plans in geo-information systems

Abstract

Provisions of the local Spatial Management Plan, and provisions resulting from separate legal acts, included in the plan, largely determine management possibilities of a property. The plan constitutes an act of the local law. Information on the planned spatial management, specified in local Spatial Management Plans can be, and it is increasingly disclosed by geo-information systems. It is important to determine the proper structure of this information in relation to reference information. Reference information plays a complex role in this case. On the one hand, it provides spatial reference, translating thematic information into spatial information, and permitting its visualisation on the background of other data. On the other hand, it supplements thematic information with required or helpful information recorded in various registers (source data, e.g. related to nature protection, environmental protection, infrastructure, etc.).
The article attempts to determine the structure of reference information, sources of reference data, and methods of its acquisition.. Reference data in the electronic form and a defined structure in the form of a data model can be used for harmonising thematic data of spatial planning. The article presents an example solution of including reference data from the GESUT (utilities) database in the local plan.