The development of a modern state coordinate system of Kazakhstan has begun.

Kazakhstan uses the 1942 coordinate system (SK-42), which has become morally outdated with the advent of digital technologies and has restricted access, meaning that access to geospatial data is closed to non-state entities, legal and natural persons, including foreign investors.

"Within the framework of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure, modernization of state geodetic, leveling, and gravimetric networks will be carried out; a modern coordinate system will be established using satellite technologies," emphasized Kazzhymukhan Bekmukashev, Chairman of the Committee of Geodesy and Cartography of the Ministry of Digital Development, Innovations and Aerospace Industry of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Thus, the Unified Digital Cartographic Base, being created within the NSDI, will serve as a unified graphical basis for all state databases, cadastres, and geoports.

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