Building the Philippines-Asia Pacific GIS Center in Taguig

The first GIS based Center in the Philippines for Asia Pacific will be built in Taguig City in cooperation with the public sector.  The letter of intent was submitted to the owner of the property in Taguig on February 26, 2013 while a technical working group conference was held in Quezon City.

This Center will be a facility for undertaking database development to evolve a GIS for environmental data, soil, water and flood or tsunami as well as liquefaction, forest, earthquake, among many other purposes.

Its main function is to establish ecological parameters for building new structures, sustaining or maintaining habitats, possible relocation of old structures or communities and most of all, readiness for potential calamities in this part of the world or disasters that will possibly affect the entire planet.

Design and construction will be undertaken by a competent local civil works undertaker and technology will be sourced from the United States, Europe (France, Germany, Ukraine, Russia and other countries like Canada, Australia, Korea, Japan as well as China.