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History of the Digiroad - The Finnish Road and Street Database

Preliminary Assessment Phase

  • Assessments by the Ministry of Transport and Communications

  • In 2000, decision of the Parliament to launch a project. The Ministry of Transport and Communications appointed the Finnish Road Administration (today the Finnish Transport Agency) as the host organization responsible for developing and maintaining the system.

 

Project Phase, 2001–2004, Digiroad Project

  • System development

  • Gathering and entering initial data¹

  • Designing a management and operational model

  • Legislative work

 

Digiroad Maintenance and Information Services, 2005–

  • Processing Digiroad maintenance data

  • Delivering Digiroad data to customers

 

   ¹ Sources used in the project phase (2001–2004)

   NLS Topographic Database

   Road register of the Finnish Transport Agency

   Municipal databases, Helsinki Metropolitan Area Council (Helsinki Regional Transport Authority)

   Data gathering projects related to the Digiroad project

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