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This paper describes the institutional and political context of a spatial data infrastructure for the Hindu Kush – Himalayan region. It then outlines the role and present activities of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) in general and its Mountain Environment Information Service (MENRIS) Division in particular. Some pragmatic steps to build a regional spatial data infrastructure that are envisaged by MENRIS are discussed. Emphasis is being put on metadata, standards definition and generation of regional key data sets at 1:250’000 scale.
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Bitter, P. (1999). A Spatial Data Infrastructure for the Hindu Kush – Himalayan Region:. In: Včkovski, A., Brassel, K.E., Schek, HJ. (eds) Interoperating Geographic Information Systems. INTEROP 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1580. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10703121_8
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