Business case for geospatial statistics as a service (GSaaS)

Keywords

Principle 5, portal, service, data access

Statistics Poland widened the Geostatistics Portal, which aim is to broaden the scope and increase availability of statistical information and methods of geostatistical analyses using the resources of official statistics. The expansion project’s was “Geospatial Statistical Data in the Information System of the State” (called PDS) and it was a response to the needs which were expressed following the implementation of previous Geostatistics Portal and also taking into account new data sources, IT tools and open source technologies. This target was achieved by designing modern IT platform supporting the usage of geographic information system in statistical studies and enabling more advanced geospatial analysis.

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