Open (up) GIS databases - RENNS - Romania 2022-2026: Green and Digital

Open (up) GIS databases - RENNS - Romania 2022-2026: Green and Digital

Open (up) GIS databases - RENNS - Romania 2022-2026: Green and Digital

This year, in a month, Micro Mapper SRL celebrates 20 years of activity. We have dedicated our work for 20 years to fill a gap in the data-geospatial (GIS) market in Romania. We have been imaging data from the field, we have processed digital data from various sources in order to result in a unique GIS database for Romania. This GIS database contains:

  • the network of roads and streets at national level having 227,481 km long, 963,562 segments and has 61,373 unique street names – as a comparison in the RENNS system (according to gd no. 777/2016) as of October 1, 2021 there were 86,283 unique street names – so we have 71.1% of the total RENNS;
  • administrative addresses (postal addresses) in all urban localities and in several hundred rural areas with a total number of 1,182,378 administrative addresses – as a comparison in the RENNS system (according to GD no. 777/2016) on October 1, 2021 there were 1,252,353 administrative addresses – so we have 94.4% of the total RENNS;
  • blocks, units, floors and apartments – at national level especially for urban ATUs with the data: 76,635 blocks, 151,645 stairs, 3,163,734 apartments. The database contains not only the number of apartments on each staircase, but also the number (name) of each apartment on each staircase. (E.g. on the B scale there are 11 apartments, from 21 to 30 and 30A);
  • the population in 2011 by age and sex groups statistically distributed by administrative addresses and units at the level of the 41 county residences.

We actively contribute to the achievement of RENNS at national level and we are market leaders, having the most contracts concluded in 2019 and 2021. We support public administrations with prices below the market average and offer free of charge numerous benefits in addition to the public administrations we work with: GIS database, GIS software solution, documentation with georeferenced images, printed mapboards, mural maps about ATU.

Last year we received from the Special Telecommunications Service – The Unique National Service for Emergency Calls 112 (document no. 125.262/08.07.2020) a study on the importance of GIS databases – especially that of administrative addresses, which make it possible to locate and navigate intervention machines to problem locations. This document shows the fact, that due to the lack of addresses in the 112 system and the ANCPI, about 3450 days are lost annually (almost 10 years). Estimating the financial losses resulted in a loss of about. 1 billion euro/5 years. Regarding only medical interventions for cardiac reasons annually per 1,000 cardiac interventions are delayed by 1 minute, when we know that in such situations every second can matter for the life of a person!

Due to the fact that these financial and human losses caused by the lack of addresses were estimated only at one institution – how much is lost annually in all state institutions? To help public institutions and NGOs in the country, we decided to OFFER THE ENTIRE FREE GIS DATABASE to non-profit organizations and all institutions of the country. Companies can use the data we created, but they will have to pay a license fee depending on the benefit of the Micro Mapper geospatial data. The amount of the license fee will be estimated by the licensed firm.

For the next year we are preparing to capitalize on the European money brought through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan and we want to offer software solutions and digitization of GIS data at national level for ATUs. You can learn more about our plans and ways to collect geo-spatial data through Artificial Intelligence, drones, LiDAR, street georeferenced images (like Street View) you can find out from our presentation at the Smart Cities of Romania Conference on November 2, 2021.

See you at the Conference!