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Development of a multi-resolution geo database is under progress. In year 2002, Government of Nepal realized the importance of supporting in the creation of an infrastructure to facilitate the sharing of geographical information within the country.
The primary data input in the NTDB is the digitalization of the 1:25,000/ 1:50,000 topographic basemaps produced by the Survey Department between 1992- 2001. The base data are generalized for the reduced scales and separate data layers are archived in the database.
The geographic information system (GIS) has dramatically changed the rate at which georeferenced data can be produced, updated, and disseminated.
Our goal in the paper is twofold: first, to draw out several key features of geographical approaches to sustainability, infrastructure, and disaster in Nepal; and second, to discuss how Nepal-based geographical work has contributed to broader debates on these themes.
development of the discipline of geoinformatics in Nepal. In 2002, Survey Department, for the first time, organized an international conference, Asian Conference on Remote Sensing (ACRS). Same year, National Geographic Information Infrastructure (NGII) was launched in the country with the active and pivotal role of Survey Department.
In Nepal, Survey Department is now in the process of transforming its traditional role of national surveying and mapping organization from paper maps production and sales to a NGII i.e. developing spatial database and building an infrastructure for sharing, dissemination and utilization of spatial and socio-economic data and their metadata.
Our aim here is to capture some of the diversity of Nepal and Himalayan geography’s contributions to the study of sustainability, infrastructure and disaster. The articles range from broad surveys—of both a geographical region (Ghimire; Lal) and the terrain of geographical scholarship in Nepal
