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To overcome paper map limitations and promote the use of its own digital cartography the ICGC (Institut Cartogràfic i Geològic de Catalunya, the national mapping agency) created, developed and maintains a SaaS (Software as a Service) open platform starting from 2013 that allows anyone to combine all sorts of geodata and publish it online as a new (thematic) map.
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InstaMaps as a project was granted an innovation award from Generalitat de Catalunya (local government) on March 16th 2017 (La innovació sovint apareix en els marges. II Jornada d’Innovació. https://innogent.blog.gencat.cat/2017/03/16/la-innovacio-sovint-apareix-en-els-marges-ii-jornada-dinnovacio/. Accessed 23 Mar 2016).
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Roset, R. et al. (2019). Service-Oriented Map Production Environments: The Implementation of InstaMaps. In: Döllner, J., Jobst, M., Schmitz, P. (eds) Service-Oriented Mapping. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72434-8_5
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