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UNSDI-T V2.0

Document type:
Maps & Geograph.
Last update:
Dec 22, 2009
Source:
UNJLC
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themes:
Air Transport - Rail Transport - Roads Transport - Sea & Rivers Transport
creation Date:
Apr 28, 2008
UN Spatial Data Infrastructure for Transport - Version 2.0
UNJLC was mandated by the UN Geographic Information Working Group and its inter-agency steering committee to act as custodian of logistics and transport data standards. To this end it has designed, implemented and maintains a package made of a database schema, an associated set of data collection forms and a global database for storing and serving logistics data. This package was first released in September 2007 (version 1.2). The UNJLC GIS unit is releasing the version 2.0 of the UN Spatial Data Infrastructure for Transport database schema (UNSDIT v2.0) building on half a year of user feedbacks and UNJLC operational lessons learned. Many thanks to all who have contributed their comments.

The most significant change has been the packaging of a “Light” subset of the Comprehensive UNSDIT package to better match responses to sudden-onset emergencies. The aim of the UNSDIT was to create a database structure with sufficient scope to accommodate for the generation of “a la carte” UNSDIT-compliant spatial databases and assessment forms. The “Light” version represents one such subset, but not the only possible selection of the attributes available in the “Comprehensive” version.

The UNSDIT version 2.0 release encompasses both “Light” and “Comprehensive” UNSDIT packages, each with the following elements:

  •  Version 2.0 UNSDIT schema (XML);
  •  Version 2.0 schema documentation (XML, MS Visio, HTML and MS Excel);
  •  Blank template databases in ESRI Personal Geodatabase (PGDB) and shapefile (SHP);
  •  A set of assessment forms for the Light UNSDIT package only.
If you wish to be kept informed of the progress on this project, or if you would like to contribute your ideas and feedback, please join the UNSDI-T mailing list by sending an email to  unsdi-t-subscribe@unjlc.org

Spatial Data Infrastructure for Transport - Version 2.0 Comprehensive


(Please note that the current available version was released in June 2008. A new version will be online in February 2010)

Spatial Data Infrastructure for Transport - Version 2.0 Light

(Please note that the current available version was released in June 2008. A new version will be online in February 2010)