The Center for Geographic Information System (CGIS) at the Ministry of Municipality and Environment has introduced vehicles equipped with advanced 3D equipment for road survey to provide accurate geographical information to the users, including individuals, companies and public institutions.
“The Center is also using drones for aerial survey and there are also plans to use manned aircraft to provide complete service,” Assistant Director of the CGIS, Amer Al Humaidi told The Peninsula on the sidelines of a workshop.
Amer Al Humaidi, Assistant Director of the CGIS; RIGHT: Eng. Muhammad Ali Al Marri, Head of the Topographic Survey at CGIS, during the Survey Operations workshop. Pic: Abdul Basit / The Peninsula
The workshop was organised by CGIS at Hilton Hotel yesterday to introduce its key projects and survey works. Al Humaidi said the Center’s geographic systems network provides services to 98 institutions.
“An app ‘Wain’ was developed by the Ministry of Municipality and Environment in cooperation with a company, in addition to ‘Al Murshid’ app which are available on Android and iPhone and provide all geographic information for Qatar while ensuring that the data is continuously updated.
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Speaking about the National Address project Anwani, Al Humaidi revealed the completion of the installation of 145,000 number plates at the entrance of various facilities including homes, shops, apartments, and other residential establishments and Al Azab (animal farms), pointing out the linking of this address with all applications of geographical systems and tracking.
He stated that the design of the number plates takes into account many requirements, the most important of which is its accessibility to children and the elderly. He noted that the ‘Wain’ app can help to access the address through building numbers, street and zones.
Talking about Geodetic Network and GPS Services, Al Humaidi said: “This network calibrates all area devices in the country, in order to obtain accurate coordinates and the error rate in them does not exceed 1 centimeter, and therefore the plots are sorted in a highly accurate way."
Head of the Topographic Survey at the Center for Geographic Information Systems and Head of the Regional Survey Office for the Arab Gulf States, Eng. Muhammad Ali Al Marri said the Geodetic Network is being developed and under a new project over 190km has been completed so far, and work is underway to achieve 8,000 km.
