(Summit No. 228 of 24 January 2011 of the Government of the People's Republic of Hong Kong to consider the adoption of the Ordinance No. 248 of 30 January 2011, which was launched effective 1 March 2011)

Article 1 promotes the sharing and application of geographic information resources, regulates the management of geographic information public services, promotes the development of the geographic information industry, and develops this approach in line with the provisions of laws, regulations, such as the People's Republic of China mapping, the Government of the People's Republic of China, the Public Regulations of the People's Republic of China, and the Restitutional Regulation.

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Article 3: The Government of the People's Government of the municipality to map the administrative authorities, the relevant administration, the district (utonomous districts) shall provide geographic information and related services to society, in accordance with economic and social development needs and the public's needs for geographic information.

Article IV provides for the development of a service platform and an application system that should be consistent with the principles of integrated planning, divisional responsibility, integrated construction, resource sharing.

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The municipal mapping administrative authorities and the municipal informationization administrative authorities organize standard norms, such as data, services, applications and development, with the standardization of municipal administration authorities.

The municipal mapping administrative authorities are responsible for the construction and management of the service platform, for the management and maintenance of the service platform, for the development, updating and maintenance of public geographical framework data in the organizational service platform, and for the organization of the system-sharing system.

The Government of the commune is responsible for the development, maintenance and application of the application system for the construction, management and management units of the application system.

Article 6. The municipal mapping of institutions owned by the administrative authorities in charge of the management, operation, maintenance and other related technical services of the service platform (hereinafter referred to as technical agencies) and the provision of technical services for the development of thematic geodetic data processing and application systems for the application of system-building units.

Article 7. The municipal mapping administrative authorities should develop service platform development planning with the relevant authorities of the city, identify the overall framework for the construction of the service platform, the construction of content, the construction model and the cycle of construction.

The application system-building units should result in the development of regional, industry-based application systems development planning with municipal mapping administrative authorities and municipal information-ification administrative authorities, and the identification of thematic geographic information data content in the application system and the establishment cycle.

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Article 9. The construction and maintenance of the service platform and the application system should be consistent with the standard norm-wide coherence and be compatible with national standards.

Article 10 provides for the construction, sharing of applications and updating of the services platform and the application system, which is integrated with the same-level financial arrangements.

Article 11. The service platform and the application system-building units shall complete data processing and compilation in accordance with their respective responsibilities and update the thematic geo-information data of the service platform and the application system in a timely manner within two months of collection or receipt of relevant geo-information data.

Article 12 organizations entrusted by executive organs and legal, regulatory, regulatory and administrative bodies with the management of the functions of public affairs, and geographic information generated in the implementation of public management and public service responsibilities should be included in the sharing of service platforms and application system data. The data-sharing catalogue is implemented in accordance with the relevant standards in this city.

The sharing of geographical information involving State secrets, commercial secrets and personal privacy should be governed by the relevant laws, regulations.

Article 13 Technical institutions should publish, in a timely manner, a directory of geographic information, metadata and the provision of public geographical framework data, as well as a compilation of regional, industrial thematic geo-information data; a directory and metadata of geo-information should be made available to service platform building agencies each year, as well as the timely provision of information on the geographical information of the service platform.

Article 14. The currentity and accuracy of data-sharing are the responsibility of the provider.

Article 15. The application of systems-building units may provide for the sharing of requests to the service platform building units, in accordance with the system-building needs, with the approval of technical agencies responsible for the technical implementation of the service delivery platform. The application of systems-building units may use models such as online, stand-alone, trajectory and front-line services to share the various geographic information services in the service platform.

Article 16 Building units of the service platform and the application system should provide timely digital maps, information searches, to the public in society, subject to confidentiality provisions.

Article 17 Building units of the service platform should be policy-, technically encouraged and supported by other units and individuals to develop a specialized application system based on the service platform.

Article 18 provides for the collection, transmission, treatment, use and management of confidential geo-information data by law.

Article 19 The municipal mapping administrative authorities should establish emergency security mechanisms with the relevant departments to provide geographic information and corresponding technical services in a timely manner, in accordance with the need to deal with emergencies.

Article 20 states that municipal mapping administrative authorities and municipal information-management authorities should strengthen monitoring of the construction and sharing of service platforms and applications systems, and provide regular analysis of the operation of service platforms and applications systems.

Article 21 Technical bodies and their staff members violate the provisions of this approach, with one of the following cases being changed by a mapping administrative order; in the case of serious circumstances, by the law of the competent and other persons directly responsible for direct responsibility:

(i) Failure to take effective security measures resulting in loss and damage to geographic information data;

(ii) Failure to complete the processing, collation and updating of geo-information data as required;

(iii) The publication of information and the provision of services, as required;

(iv) Other cases to be disposed of by law.

Article 22 provides for the application of systems-building units and their staff, which are one of the following cases, and are corrected by the municipal mapping administrative authorities for the period of time, which is still uncorrected and may be suspended for the sharing of services; in the event of a serious nature, by the authority to dispose of the law by the competent and other direct responsibilities:

(i) The development of an application system that is not based on a uniform standard norm across the city and that the application system cannot be shared;

(ii) A project for the use of the application system for financial funds, which was not sought before the municipal mapping of administrative authorities and the municipal information-management authorities;

(iii) The application system-building programme for the use of financial funds has not been presented to the municipal mapping of administrative authorities and the municipal informationization administrative authorities;

(iv) No updated thematic geo-information data is organized as required.

Article 23 of the relevant administrative authorities and relevant units and their staff are not subject to the supervision of the management duties under the law, or are not leashed, causing grave consequences, which are taken by the competent authority to dispose of the law by the competent and other direct responsibilities that are directly responsible; and are suspected of committing crimes to be transferred to the judiciary.

Article 24 of this approach refers to geographic information, including data on the public geographical framework and thematic geographic information.

This approach refers to the use of web-based services such as the spatialization of economic and social information and the online reference notes, based on the harmonization of technical standards and norms, for the processing of existing basic geo-information data by geographical entities, subsidiaries, such as videos, water systems, housing, transport, administrative areas, geographical landscapes, etc. Public geographical framework data are the subject of data on the services of the platform and the uniform spatial features of regional, industrial thematic geo-information data.

The thematic geospatial information referred to in this approach refers to information describing the geographical spatial distribution of elements in a region or in a given sector and their attributes, including data on natural resources, environmental ecology, disaster, economic society, infrastructure.

The service platform described in this approach is composed of harmonized standard norms, data on the public geographical framework and the sharing of information systems, and the only public information infrastructure throughout the city.

The application system referred to in this approach is a thematic geographic information system that supports the use of data for the service platform.

This approach refers to the establishment of soft hardware systems for data sharing and functional services for the service platform. Through the system, cross-sectoral, cross-regional and cross-sector networking applications for the geospatial data of the service platform can be achieved, operationally, content-rich online analysis and management of the service platform.

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