The idea behind the NSDI is to eliminate duplication of efforts as far as the Geographical Information is concerned, it is therefore necessary that the information collected at one level is suitable for all levels. It will be of no use to share the data if it cannot be used due to different formats, geographic reference systems etc. In order for this vision to be realised, the GIS Unit provides services such as the
Metadata Service which enables the user to search through the records to establish a suitable data to use or to discover which GI is available and where, etc. and the
Data Request Service. The ambition with the data request service is to have a Data exchange, at least between the major GI producers and stakeholders and for this, the Scaleable Vector Graphics (SVG)application is going to be used.
