How and when the National Infrastructure for Land Information System (NaLIS) started in Malaysia?
It was started with a feasibility study in 1995. The first prototype was developed in 1997 involving four cadastral data suppliers from Government agencies in Kuala Lumpur. The implementation of this prototype which was later known as NaLIS Pilot Project was an effort towards building capability of data sharing through web. What are the objectives of NaLIS? NaLIS, as our NSDI, was recently changed to Malaysian Geospatial Data Infrastructure, in short MyGDI. This has been done due to the development of NaLIS and involvement of various agencies representing cadastral as well as mapping authorities. The objectives of MyGDI is to work towards enabling online access to geospatial information, avoiding duplication of effort in data collection and ensuring the accuracy, timeliness, correctness and consistency of data. Which are the main agencies involved in MyGDI? Almost all of our government agencies are involved in MyGDI. How have you managed to develop metadata standards and make participa
