Mapping Application

Mapping has a special status because it serves as a reference for almost all other applications. These include:

• environment: the design and production of risk prevention plans, impact studies, natural resource management, urban nuisance control (air pollution, noise, etc.),
• town planning and development: urban development monitoring, communal property management, land use management, communal maps, urban equipment management),
• network management (water, sanitation, telephone, electricity, etc.),
• public works and rural development: signposting and road management, impact studies and development plans,
• transport and municipal police: urban displacement plans and public transport management,
• economic and social development: management of city policies and areas of activity,
• protection of heritage and tourism: landscape protection, management of cultural, historical and leisure facilities.

The following mapping information is supplied:

• des photographs,
• des maps (tourist maps, road maps, hiking maps, etc),
• mapping databases (topographic databases and altimetric databases: Digital Terrain Models (DTM), Digital Height Models (DHM), Road Databases...).

The following four types of users are concerned by these databases and geographical information:

• users from the public sector such as administrative services, etc.
• Defense,
• private and consulting companies,
• the general public.