Resources

AFSDI documents

AFSDI is the Agro-Food Spatial Data Infrastructure initiative of FAO, UNEP, ITC, PBL and UNSDI-NCO, aiming at the establishment of the first operational infrastructure component of UNSDI. AFSDI will deliver:

• a world-wide SDI, focussing on Agro-Food and Water
• a Geospatial Data Warehouse containing over 300.000 freely accessible geospatial data layers
• a suite of open source software tools to enable countries or regional centres to build their own SDI.

Relevant documents on the development of AFSDI

• Establishment of a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) For Food and Agriculture (presentation)
• AFSDI Flyer 'Establishment of a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) for Food and Agriculture'

UNSDI background documents

Relevant documents on the development of UNSDI (2007-2015)

• UNSDI Compendium
• Interim UNSDI Framework
• UNSDI Strategy Implementation Paper
• NCO Role in UNSDI

Links

Links to relevant organizations.

• UNGIWG
• GeoNetwork opensource Community website
• Open Geospatial Consortium
• GSDI Association

Tools

Free downloadable opensource software like metadata catalog servers, GIS packages, mapping software, as well as free on-line tools, etc.

• GeoNetwork
• OpenStreetMap
• Ushahidi
• ILWIS
• gvSIG
• Crowdmap
• easySDI
• FreeSmartGIS