Page 99 - Are You Future Ready?

Chapter One - To Know the Present
Through the Past

the era of civilisation.

Knowing our location and relative location to the outside
world (such as buildings, cars, rivers or other landmarks)
is a very important ability, it is the key to survival and

reproduction. Today, the importance of geospatial
knowledge is increasing.

Since 80% of information is linked to location, it is logical
to attach location information to data. Nowadays, many

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a variety of public data on a central platform, called
common spatial data infrastructure (CSDI), for use by the

government, public and private organisations, startups and
citizens.

Hong Kong is also very advanced in this respect. Over 20
years ago, the geographic information system (GIS) was

introduced for city planning and management. In 2018,
the Lands Department took the lead in linking data of
various government departments to spatial information and

presented the information on a map. The new website of
the Hong Kong Geographic Data (HK GeoData Store) is said