These basic data will provide the foundation required to develop multipurpose geographic information projects nationwide.
Government agencies are the main producers of geographic data in Colombia.
Government, academic and private sector are active participants. From its work, the national geographic metadata standard will be approved to the end of September 1998. It is expected that soon, producers start to document their datasets according to our metadata standard, to build metadatabases and to provide access to users through Internet. We are attempting that government agencies share the cost of designing and implementing metadatabases and making them accessible via web servers. All digital geographic data produced by government agencies are available to the public with copyright restrictions for any kind of use, whether commercial or not.