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In every state, various government departments are pressing hard to get the geospatial information related to their department for day-to-day usage and planning the developmental activities. State Remote Sensing Applications Centre’s (NGISRSC), the nodal agency for providing geospatial technology application services in the State has been sharing the available relevant information with these departments as and when necessary. However, in the absence of a well-developed functional centralize Geo Portal in the State; it becomes difficult to provide instant access of the geospatial data base available with nodal agencies to the users in a secured, user friendly and efficient manner. The State Geo Portal aims to ensure quick and timely updating of the data sets and access to the voluminous satellite data available with State Remote Sensing Applications Centre’s through the State Geo Portal to ensure efficient flow of geospatial information and its maximum utilization for developmental planning purpose.

The Nagaland State GeoPortal is a one-stop-shop for open geospatial datasets in the State which avails you the opportunity to access a variety of geospatial data, tools, to help you grow your geospatial skills and enrich the existing resources via collaboration and contribution.

The launch of the Nagaland state Geoportal is one of the exciting news to the geospatial community in Nagaland. The platform is powered by Nagaland GIS & Remote Sensing Center (NGISRSC) that provides accurate, timely, continuous, and sustainable basis, socio-economic statistics on all facets of development in Nagaland. The platform leverages the Open GIS tools and technologies in cloud platform that organizes people, data, and tools to accomplish initiatives and goals as the underlying technology.

What is a Geoportal and Why We Need One?

Geoportals are web-based portals used to discover, access geospatial data and services, analyse, edit, and visualize spatial data on the internet. Geoportals are important for the effective use of geographic information systems (GIS) and a key element of Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI).

Over the years, several Governmental Agencies, Line Departments, NGOs, Private Organizations have embarked on data collection exercises with an overarching goal of acquiring location-based data and attributable information that are important for their various use cases. Meanwhile, some of this data already exists in some other organizations’ data banks but are sometimes not made open and easily accessible by users in the general populace. Perhaps, due to several constraints, confidentialities, and policies around the use of these data, technical requirements in setting up a fully-fledged and highly efficient data portal, unawareness of existing data portals, poor quality of existing data among other reasons.

However, these data are very crucial in the execution of their development and high-impact projects, hence the need for the data collection exercises can be justified. This repetitive and continuous effort, that consumes time and human resources suggests the need for a unified open data portal where high-quality data can be contributed to by State Line Departments and organizations for easy access to the users. Why can’t we have a unified portal to host local data specific to Nagaland? Why can’t we continue to update existing data rather than collecting new data that leads to data redundancy? All these efforts lead to data disconnection, and these are the problems the Nagaland State GeoPortal would provide solutions to if embraced and well harnessed.

NGISRSC will co-ordinate the entire state geospatial system, develop, and promote best statistical standards and uses. Not only that, NGISRSC will maintain a state data bank that will act as a focal point of accessing geospatial information.

Benefits of the Nagaland State GeoPortal

Nagaland State Geoportal will therefore solve among other problems the issue of having access to geospatial data, reduce the problem of conflicting data, cost of maintaining online geoportal, create opportunities for more people in the State in learning GIS and its applications, data interpretation will be made easy as well as a better understanding of data for decision making and easy sharing of data.

The Nagaland State Geoportal will host data that are contributed by State Line Departments, organizations on a single portal for access to analysts, researchers, and interested organizations that want to use data for projects that require spatial analysis to inform decision-making. In the case that a portal like the Nagaland State Geoportal existed earlier, many of the data collection exercises being carried out would have been abolished, as most of the required data about Nagaland will be found on the platform which would have saved a lot of resources.

To see the changes we all desire, we need to embrace open data and encourage the sharing of data for use by problem solvers. As GIS is data-driven, little or nothing can be done without access to the right data. Having access to these data would not only unlock innovations but also spark ideas that can solve pressing problems and cause the change needed as a State.

Moreover, NGISRSC encourages all to join the Nagaland State Geoportal by sharing their geospatial data and analysis on the portal.

NGISRSC is ready to share our GIS resources in the portal and build capacity where necessary. We advise that the users of the Nagaland State Geoportal should keep on using the portal as frequently as possible, give feedback to better improve the portal, share citations to better enrich the portal, and always visit the portal for a new update. The Nagaland State Geoportal has been developed for use. It is our responsibility to put it to good use by sharing quality geospatial data on the platform.