期刊名称：ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
印刷版ISSN：2194-9042
电子版ISSN：2194-9050
出版年度：2006
卷号：XXXVI Part 6
页码：60-64
出版社：Copernicus Publications
摘要：We report the result of an environmental thematic map contest for elementary and junior high school students and a map dissemination forum aiming for geographic information popularization in Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. These activities were conducted as a part of 1:25,000 national spatial data infrastructure (NSDI) project of Macedonia funded by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). The project consists of the establishment of NSDI, technology transfer training for surveying and mapping of NSDI and disseminating geographic information. Until today, maps and geographic information were of no interest or use to people in Macedonia. The reasons being that maps were not available to the public before independence, relatively expensive, inconvenient to purchase, and not used in academic activities. It is a must to increase the number of users and to be acknowledged by the public in order to realize the sustainable development of NSDI and wide use of GIS which will contribute to economical development. In the study, we aimed to enhance the future use of maps and geographic information by offering the opportunities to enjoy their use and to understand the benefit of them. It is a known fact that a top-down approach for promoting the use of geographic information using IT technology towards the whole society is effective. However it was also realized from this study that such continuous grass-roots activities are as well the effective approach
