SITPA IDEAS

SITPA-IDEAS

SITPA-IDEAS is the reference geoportal where all the geographic information of interest of the Principality of Asturias is concentrated.

In the year 2000, the Principality of Asturias, in its effort to make available to the public the geographic information it had because it considered it of great interest both for its own specific tasks and for other applications, created the Territorial Information System of the Principality of Asturias, SITPA.

Later, with the approval of the Directive 2007/2 / EC of the European Parliament and the Council of March 14, 2007 establishing a spatial information infrastructure in the European Community (INSPIRE), and its transposition into the Spanish regulatory framework through Law 14/2010, of July 5, on infrastructure and geographic information services in Spain (LISIGE), which directly and directly compromised binding to the Public Administrations in the provision of geographic information services such as cartography visualization and reuse of public geographic information, either through interoperability services or by direct download, the SITPA evolved to incorporate the Spatial Data Infrastructure of Asturias, since then being called SITPA-IDEAS.

The union of these two concepts, territorial information system and spatial data infrastructure, has been maintained since then and has been considered an added value of the geoportal, as it allows access to geographic information by two complementary ways, unified in a same point and intended for different users.

And the integration of these two concepts has been maintained and highlighted in the structure of the new version of the SITPA-IDEAS geoportal launched in 2020, through its identification in the access menus, which are configured as follows:

  • INFORMATION menu, where general geoportal information is included.
  • SITPA menu, the Geographic Information System of the Principality of Asturias, where you can consult all the existing geographic information in the Principality of Asturias organized by topics for easy location.
  • IDEAS menu, the Spatial Data Infrastructure of Asturias, which includes the elements of a Spatial Data Infrastructure, that is, a Visualizer, Metadata Catalog, Download Center and Web Services, which provides a basis for the search, evaluation and exploitation of Geospatial information for users and suppliers of all levels of the administration, commercial sector, non-profit organizations, academic sector and citizens in general.
  • LINKS menu, where you can consult other SDIs of the Principality of Asturias and links of interest in geographic information.

In this way, access is facilitated to users who will go by one way or another quickly and directly, depending on the type of query they intend to make.

The General Directorate of Land Management, through the Cartography Service, is responsible for the coordination, management and maintenance of the SITPA-IDEAS geoportal, work that is carried out with the collaboration of the different departments of the Principality of Asturias, and either by sharing the geographic information generated by them or working jointly with the Service for the generation of new geographic information. A sum of efforts is made with the aim of making available to citizens the most diverse and complete geographic information about Asturias.