Problems and prospects of interstate geoinformation interaction in the zone of the Silk Road

Abstract

The article presents the results of the implementation of the Russian-Mongolian project “Creation of the Baikal Information Center (BIC)”. For the first time on the territory of the Great Silk Road, an intergovernmental information structure has been organized for collection, processing and analyze environmental information in order to inform the world community about the state and territorial development of Lake Baikal and its water basin. The main problems of the Russian-Mongolian information interaction are identified, the principles of successful interstate information neighborhood are formulated, which represent the totality of organizational, technological, environmental and normative-methodical measures. Methodical bases of creation of the international information-telecommunication system providing operative access of representatives of the ministries and departments, business, the population to actual and reliable information on the state of the watershed of Lake Baikal are developed. A technological basis of the BIC, including a geographic information system and an international geoportal, is described. The structure of the geoportal is presented, the headings and content of the contained materials are described. The technique of creation of cartographic service on the basis of the open spatial platform and its introduction into the geoportal is developed. An example of a map on the geoportal and printed products of the BIC is presented.