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Azerbaijan prepares Baku and Absheron Peninsula orthopictomap

06 February 2009 13:09 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Rashad Suleymanov - APA-Economics. Azerbaijanâ€™s State Committee for Land and Cartography has developed an orthopictomap of a 2 sq. km area including Baku and Absheron Peninsula (scale 1:1000).
Garib Mammadov, Chairman of the Committee, said orthopictomaps of Baku and Absheron Peninsula (scale 1:1000), towns and district centers (scale 1:1000), villages, agricultural and other areas (scale 1:5000), and front-line, border, mountainous areas (scale 1:10000) had been planned for preparation.
According to him, aerial survey work is 70% complete.
Besides, an orthopictomap of 8 000 sq. km (the northern border of Azerbaijan, the Greater Caucasus Mountain Range) on the basis of satellite imagery at a scale of 1:10000 has also been developed. It is also planned to draw cadastre maps on he basis of orthopictomaps.
The development of orthopictomaps is part of the World Bank-financed Real Estate Registration Project. The $38 million project is scheduled for completion in 2012.