Building a collaborative online catalogue of geoportals in Brazil



Document title: Building a collaborative online catalogue of geoportals in Brazil
Journal: Boletim de ciencias geodesicas
Database: PERIÓDICA
System number: 000457317
ISSN: 1413-4853
Authors: 1
2
Institutions: 1Prefeitura Municipal de Guaiba, Departamento de Planejamento e Gestao Territorial, Guaiba, Rio Grande do Sul. Brasil
2Universidade Federal do Parana, Programa de Pos-graduacao em Ciencias Geodesicas, Curitiba, Parana. Brasil
Year:
Volumen: 27
Number: 4
Country: Brasil
Language: Inglés
Document type: Artículo
Approach: Analítico, descriptivo
English abstract It is currently possible to account for several institutions with geographic data shared through the INDE portal, with more than half of it being from federal jurisdiction. However, there are subnational geoportals not integrated with this infrastructure, which is difficult to quantify. Therefore, the research problem of this study is finding the state of subnational geographic viewers’ availability, with the general objective of producing a Brazilian panorama and to identify factors that facilitate this availability. A research methodology based on different sources was applied in 27 states and 999 municipalities. As a result, we identified 17 regional, 82 state, and 274 municipal geoportals, with the highest concentration in the South and Southeast regions and lowest in the Northern region. In order to find factors related to geoportals availability, twenty characteristics of each municipality were collected, and Pearson coefficients were calculated, revealing significant correlations for population, economic and tax factors, and non-significant correlations for location factors. This acquired information is essential for the community and must be kept up to date. For this, an online collaborative map based on free software was created, allowing access without registration for data visualization and the registration of users for sending updates to the map
Disciplines: Geografía
Keyword: Cartografía,
Geoportales,
Datos geográficos,
Sistemas de Información Geográfica (SIG),
Brasil
Keyword: Cartography,
Geoportals,
Geographic data,
Geographic Information Systems (GIS),
Brazil
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