With the spearheading of Information Technology Department,
Government of West Bengal in collaboration with NIC, West Bengal geographic information based
platform West Bengal GIS was established in 2024 in state. It heralds the beginning of
collaborative process to facilitate data based location specific decision making
through the use of GIS technology in the state of West Bengal. It was challenging task
as maps existed in multiple scale, projections, datum, format (digital or hard copy)
etc. These datasets were not available in a form that can be integrated with IT
applications. West Bengal GIS is the first GIS based system in the country that provides
data up to a scale of 1:4000.
In the mitigation to
fulfill the objectives of Digital India to establish end-to-end geospatial electronics
delivery systems, GIS platform established by NIC, Meity, using West Bengal GIS services
has been revamped as “West Bengal maps”. This depicts core foundation data as West Bengal GIS,
an integrated multi-scale multi-resolution base map service using reference data
from Survey of India, ISRO, FSI and so on. This covers a large number of vector
layers containing administrative boundaries, transport layers such as roads and
railways, forest layers, settlement locations etc. including many base map services
Salient Features
- * Provides a comprehensive framework for spatial data, service-oriented architecture.
- * Integration of GIS and MIS data for planning and decision making.
- * Provides vector layers as services for integration with web and mobile application.
- * Generates thematic maps on key infrastructural aspects across various levels.