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[All features] Mongolian mapping turns toward the cities
But this Friday Mongolia's GIS community will momentarily turn away from the landscape and look instead at its cities for new mapping ideas. The National University of Mongolia has invited MondoMap, an American mapping firm, to The Second National Workshop on “Application of Remote Sensing /GIS for Mongolian Environment”. MondoMap will be the odd man out, since the company maps business districts in crowded cities, rather than land degradation, desertification or forest fires. But a new focus is exactly why the event organizer, Prof. Dr. Tsolmon Renchin, Director of NUM-ITC-UNESCO Remote Sensing/GIS Laboratory, is interested to hear from the unlikely guest. Dr. Renchin invited roughly 80 researchers, mining company representatives, scientists, students and others interested in sharing their GIS skills to the December 7th conference, to be held in Ulaanbaatar in the “Mongolia-Japan“ center. Because GIS is a new sector in Mongolia and even a relatively new term here, says Dr. Renchin, the meeting is aimed at looking for new applications for GIS. MondoMap's idea is certainly new for a group used to mapping natural phenomena. B. Batmunkh, MondoMap's product developer, will have 15 minutes to present the company's urban approach to computer mapping - how MondoMap creates interactive online maps of commercial neighborhoods and business districts. The maps show a detailed diagram of the shapes and locations of each business in an area. The stores are color-coded by category to let users highlight restaurants, shops, salons, theaters and so on. And the system lets the user link to a business' website and to online reviews. The purpose of the maps is clearly commercial, but according to Batmunkh, they still have something to offer a scientific audience. The GIS platform, which MondoMap built in-house, is highly interactive and may spark ideas on how to serve user-friendly environmental maps on the Web. MondoMap, says Batmunkh, takes complex GIS projects and reworks them for the general public. He also plans to share his thoughts on how environmental studies can be combined with business on the Web, and how commercial maps have a purpose even in Mongolia, where GIS will more likely help you understand horse populations in the countryside than let you find restaurants in Mongolia's capital, Ulaan Baatar. By Bob Wolf and B. Batmunkh GIS conference info MondoMap homepage Database of antique Mongol maps RELATED STUFF
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