The Municipality of Rethymnon is another Municipality that showed confidence in GET for the Development of the Spatial Data Infrastructure of the Municipality, by choosing the GET_ICT solution, provided by GET within our portfolio developed for Smart Cities, with the aim of providing a modern web tool to the employees of the Municipality, to the professionals and to the citizens as well.

The Technical Services Directorate of the Municipality of Rethymnon already had a significant amount of spatial data, which it has produced in the past with its own resources. These data are directly and indirectly linked to the current state of the Municipal Property of the Municipality and are a tool for a number of users. The main goal was to be able to exploit them without requiring specialized software and training and for this purpose it was considered necessary to create a Geospatial Information Infrastructure.

The Directorate focused on the organization of existing geospatial information as a priority, the development of advanced internet services for the dissemination of geoinformation, but also on the transfer of know-how to the executives of the Municipality, in order to improve the internal flows of geospatial data management.

In this context, GET developed a modern geo-information system for cataloguing the property status in GIS of the Municipality of Rethymnon but also for the management and dissemination of the available digital spatial information. The system uses exclusively open-source software, achieving huge savings, as the cost of acquiring and upgrading software licenses is zero.

Interested parties have the opportunity to receive information regarding the property situation, spatial organization, infrastructure, environment. The infrastructure includes over 990 items that fall into a number of thematic categories, providing access to geospatial data and standard study files. The data are available through the Geospatial Information Portal, which acts as the main user interface with the infrastructure, while the possibilities of thematic and functional scalability of the system are potentially limitless.