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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