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facilities. At the same time existing staff needed additional
training. At the beginning of the project it was estimated that
four members of staff would be enough for running the scan-
centre, the backup unit, georeferencing and to organise
vectorisation work in the regional offices. Including work on
topographical maps in the frame of CRONO GIP II project,
seven people are at the moment working at the scan-centre, and
additional three are foreseen.
4.3.2 Scanning centre: The scan-centre is also facing a big
demand for scanned maps in raster format beside the vectorised
data. At the moment work is organised in two shifts. According
to expectations of the workload which will come when
vectorisation will run in all regional cadastre centres and from
the Real-Property Registration and Cadastre Project, it is our
expectation that the scan-centre will work permanently in three
shifts. This also requests permanent support from the supplier.
Because not all intervention can be done via the help line
ProCaptura has entered into a partnership with the Croatian
company Geofoto, to ensure fast and qualified support in
Croatia.
4.3.3 Project results: The Scan centre became operational in
May 2002 and in the following 14 months 5000 cadastral maps
and almost 5000 topographical maps in scale 1:5.000 have been
scanned. This gives an average of 715 maps per month. In fact
at the beginning around 500 maps have been scanned per
month, and now the average level is about 1000 sheets.
The start up of the scan centre coincides with increased demand
for scanned maps. At the beginning the scan centre delayed in
delivering scanned material up to two months. Presently the
State Geodetic Administration has achieved to deliver scanned
material to customers within two weeks from receiving the
request.
Next phase of the CRONO GIP II project was delivery of
vectorisation software together with five work stations to five
regional cadastral offices where work will be done. This
appeared in May 2003. together with staff training. Based on
delivered equipment the software has been tested and findings
have been transferred to ProCaptura for improvements. Till end
of August, improved, bug free vectorisation software should be
delivered, and full production should start.
4.3.4 Technical cooperation — interesting for all parties
It is more then obvious that well defined projects, developed in
frame of technical cooperation benefit all sides. Recipient
institution benefits from the:
- enhanced production capasity (including knowledge
transfer, installed goods or works performed),
- technology transfer meaning that “reinvention of the
wheel” is avoided
- Opportunity to “calibrate” itself comparing its
situation with the partner and
- personal contacts of its staff and domestic consultants
working together with the experts from the donors
side.
Donor institution benefits from the cooperation:
- extended knowledge from looking into the
organisations and systems different from the domestic
ones.
- Increased competence of own experts and
- based on the knowledge gathered, capacity to
improve it's own organisation and systems.
And finally, such projects, when they are well conducted,
benefit also consultants and companies to perform whole or
specific work parts of projects abroad and at home. Besides the
explicit business opportunity they also benefit from the
cooperation in following aspects:
- opportunity to expand the market area
- Opportunity to cooperate with companies from
foreign countries and to further develop themselves
- opportunity to expand established cooperation in third
countries and in new markets
- and of course increasing the knowledge of their own
companies and involved staff.
Crucial in this is to find a good balance between all the
mentioned opportunities.
4.3.5 Technology transfer - New technology
A special aspect of projects executed in the frame of technical
cooperation appears when, beside the technology transfer (scan-
centre), the project also involves the implementation of new
technology or development of new solutions (vectorisation
software). This was the case in the CRONO GIP projects.
Based on previous achievements by ProCaptura for automated
vectorisation of topographical and hydrographical maps, this
project particularly challenged the company to develop tailor-
made software for automated vectorisation of Croatian cadastral
maps.
As mentioned above vectorisaton of cadastral maps is a major
challenge for the State Geodetic Administration in the
forthcoming years, but it appears also to be major challenge for
the software provider because of the fact that the variety of how
cadastral maps have been drawn is big. Therefore the project
requests maximal engagement and flexibility from all parties to
achieve result since knowledge is split among them and all
challenges are not visible at the beginning of the project.
Of course developing software as such is not something
important only for Croatian side, since there are many countries
making great efforts in vectorisation of their cadastral maps or
similar maps. This makes the Crono GIP project interesting and
applicable in a much wider context than only for Croatia.
5. CONCLUSION
Technical cooperation between Norway and Croatia in the field
of land administration and cartography materialized in CRONO
GIP I and CRONO GIP II project. The projects have lasted less
then three years but have already shown concrete and
measurable results. This was manageable because the project
goals have been well specified and clear key indicators to
measure success have been identified. Additionally both sides
took actively part in project execution and have shown high
devotion and flexibility.
Based on those very basic principles and on establishing
confidence and frank relations between the institutions and
companies involved, the cooperation comprises all necessary
preconditions for success. Implementing the same principles to