It will be possible to see industrial parks on the map

The Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation is considering of creating a geographic information mapping system of industrial parks in Russia. Nowadays, there is over a hundred of such sites most of which form the Association of Industrial Parks.

Industrial park is a real estate facility complex ruled by a single operator (specialized holding company), consisting of the land plot or plots with the production, administration, warehouse and other spaces and facilities provided with energy sources, engineering and transport infrastructure and administrative law conditions for the siting of new operating departments.

The Ministry tends to introduce new technologies in management processes. In this case, the suggested idea of emap with the help of which investors will be able to find full information of each object and the conditions of siting in should be considered. According to their plans, the Unified Geographic Information System of Industrial Parks (GISIP) should start working in 2016.

A portal with the input, storage, systematization, analysis and graphical rendering system on a map of spatial data and related information should be the final output. As it is envisioned, the user should get detailed information according to its request on the investment sites suitable for him. That includes information about engineering infrastructure, distribution areas close to it and so on.

However, the experience has shown that such projects in the Russian Federation like GIS can be successfully implemented if there is an external operator of such system. Generally, these products for Ministries are non-core activity category and the updating of this system can come to formality on leftovers.

So, it would be logical to consider the practical activity of the Association of Industrial Parks, which already has the map in its portal showing the main characteristics of the investment parks forming it.