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Sille, the case study area, is an ancient settlement, leaning on
the two slopes of a valley located in the 12km of the Northwest
of Konya. In this area there are many monumental works such
as a church dated to 327 BC, rock churches remaining from
earlier periods, and baths and mosques from the Ottoman
period. Besides, the most of the historical settlement is
composed of civil architectural monuments. Today the whole
area of historical pattern which is 33 ha, is under a conservation
scheme as “Urban Conservation Area”.
Sille was announced as an Archaeological Conservation Area of
Urban and 1 st Grade approved by the Konya Conservation
Council of Cultural and Natural Assets with a decision dated of
19.06.1995 and registered of no.2292. The area was kept out of
the urban development in the Master Development Plan of
Konya with the scale of 1/25 000 (Konplan 2020) and defined
as “Urban Conservation Area”.
During this study, the characteristics and potentialities, the plans
with big scales and conservation decisions that Sille has, have
been evaluated; and at the stage of the production of planning
decisions, the usage possibility of GIS programme mentioned
has been tested.
2. COLLECTING AND INPUTTING OF DATA
Being a base for the GIS activities in producing the
Conservation Aimed Development Plans of Sille, it has been
moved to the procedures of data collection, by examining what
the spatial and non-spatial data of the study area will be. Some
of these data taken from the studies named as “Investigations of
Sille” which had been carried out within the curriculum of the
lecture of “Urban Conservation” during the Fall Semester of
1999-2000 under the supervision of Assist. Prof. Dr Rahmi
Erdem, have contributed significant data to this study.
Furthermore, the Conservation Aimed Development Plan of
Sille and also its additional works, which had been prepared by
the authors themselves and had been approved by the Konya
Council of Cultural and Natural Assets with the decision dated
of 19.11.2001 and registered of No.4328, has been the reference
for this study. For this study, these data have also been used by
updating and modification.
2.1. Inputting of Spatial Data
For the collection of spatial data of the study area, firstly the
map bases have been achieved. The cadastral map of the area,
which was prepared in the scale of 1/1000, has been obtained
from Regional Directory of Title Deed and Cadastre. The digital
values of the study area have been acquired by means of
digitizing the cadastral map in the NetCad media (Figure 1).
As a result of the preliminary studies carried out on the site of
study area of Sille, it has been established that the cadastral
situation did not fit to the site completely and rectification
works on the site must be fulfilled. Therefore, some studies
have been performed for the ascertaining the existing situation
by taking into account the building elements, such as buildings,
additional building structures, wall and gardens which would be
considered as a cultural value; and the numeric values which
had been acquired proper to the “Regulations of Large-Scale
Mapping” have been drawn (application of the data) to the
cadastral base (Figure 2).
2.2. Inputting of Non-spatial Data
By making observations and examinations in the whole area, as
an addition to the base map of 1/1000 in scale and carried out in
the 1977 (Figure 3), the answers of the questionnaire, which had
been given previously to the residents of the area who are either
owner or tenant, aimed at getting the non-spatial data such as
ownership, usage and conservation, have been collected (Figure
4-5).
Figurel. The digital cadastral map of the study area, Sille
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Figure 2. After the rectification, the cadastral situation of the
study area
