Pôle technologique en géomatique

The feasibility study of the « Regional Geospatial Information Centre» (RGIC) of the Midi Pyrenees Region was officially launched on the 22nd of June 2009 in Toulouse (France). All the partners and several key actors of geographical information at regional level met during the kick-off meeting in order to set the bases of this strategic project. Both the feasibility study and the RGIC project will be coordinated by the « Teleparc » geomatics centre of the Gers CCI. The study will be finished in March 2010 and its results  will be used to prepare the set-up of the RGIC in the best possible way.

The kick-off meeting gave the opportunity to all concerned actors (local, regional, national authorities, etc) to meet, to express their needs and expectations and to exchange ideas so that the feasibility study will be efficiently conducted. Moreover, a final decision was taken on the partnership composition. Thus, the founding group of the RGIC project is the following one: Gers CCI, Midi Pyrenees Region, Midi Pyrenees Prefecture, Ariège Province, Tarn et Garonne Province, Aveyron Province (represented by the SMICA), Association of Municipalities of Grand Auch and the French Order of Licensed Surveyors. A Steering and a Monitoring Committee  will ensure the good development of the study.

Before the setting up of the RGIC in Midi Pyrenees, a feasibility study will be carried out during 9 months in order to prepare the RGIC in the best possible way. Thus, useful results will be produced during the faisabilty period, which will be then used to set up the RGIC efficiently. The feasibility study has three objectives:

1. Drafting of a detailed geomatics portrait of the Midi Pyrenees region
2. Implementation of an operational Spatial Data Infrastructure covering the whole region.
3. Definition of a RGIC governance with legal and financial models and with the consent of as many as possible key-actors.

The first actions will begin in July 2009. A budget of 145 000 euros will be allocated to the Gers CCI during the faisability study.

More information is available on the Teleparc website and on the RGIC website (in french only).