Starting up of integration with gvSIG

After our meeting with gvSIG responsibles at Girona (Libre SIG Workshop), and once that Fallas and Easter week has definitely been overpassed, work of integration has begun.

During next weeks, our team will provide gvSIG's one with the following documentation:

- One complete list of the extensions developed and of the upgradings that we can provide, including a brief description of their functionalities

- Data on instalable packages and their dependencies, including information on:

• Supported platforms: Linux, Windows, Mac, ...
• File types: executables, compressed files, etc
• gvSIG version on which they depend
• Dependencies with other gvSIG extensions
• Wether the executable files are designed to be installed on gvSIG or if, in the opposite, there's one single and complete installation file
• Supported languages
• Dependencies on native libraries
• Other relevant information

Next step will consist of the analysis of this information by gvSIG team, after what both teams will finally decide what packages or utilities are integrated within next versions of gvSIG.

Some history

The history of gisEIEL begins as far in time as in 1986. That year, the first edition of EIEL database of A Coruña Province was launched.

EIEL is an achronym that stands for the Spanish of Enquiry on Local Infrastructures and Services. It consists of a huge database containing information on all of the public facilities, services, premises, etc at the municipal level, be them publicly owned and managed or not, but publicly usable, anyway.

Data are collected at settlement level, so that it is known what infrastructures or services are available at every settlement within a given municipality. In A Coruña province, as well as in the rest of Galicia, this is not a trivial issue as here there are over 4.000 queriable settlements , with more than 11.000 populated areas in total in an area of 7.900 Km sq.

So, managing those data by means of using GIS technologies is, clearly, the most adequate solution.

GIS Timeline at Diputación de A Coruña

First somehow useful application used to manage EIEL data was launched during 1995. It produced coropleth maps of the province that showed the degree of implementation of different services at each municipality.

The first actual and complete migration of EIEL data to GIS environment was held during Phase IV updating, when all of the data capture and digitization tasks were undertaken by means of ad-hoc built GIS applications.