The detailed digital maps that can be prepared will also help local authorities in their work and eventually be available to the public, said L H Indrasiri, Director GIS at the Urban Development Authority (UDA), which is implementing the project.
"We're preparing maps of the southern and eastern provinces covering an area of 20,000 square kilometres," he told LBO.
"The images will be in colour and also digital so we can make maps on the computer using GPS (Global Positioning System) co-ordinates. We can make it the base and use it to provide layered information to users such as on land use, roads and streams."
"It can be used for planning purposes and even help local authorities identify premises by assessment number and categorise the road networks."
Eventually, when the maps are made available to the public, people can make use of the