In the 21st century, increasing processor speeds in the field of informatics, decreasing sensor costs in data production, advances in distributed architectures, developments in cloud computing systems etc. innovations allow the data to be analyzed from different sources, with different resolutions at a lower cost, at a higher speed, and for a wider range of analysis. Public institutions and organizations should adopt the approach that the data/information increases as they are used and shared,

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... nriched and produce added value. Instead of storing the data sets they produce or acquire as data islands within the framework of silo logic, public institutions and organizations need to share the data sets they are responsible for by adopting the open data approach. With the open data approach, the spatial data infrastructures will be designed and implemented in the open data ecosystem and will mean much more meaning and value for all stakeholders in the spatial information sector. Much more added value will emerge when producing and sharing more volumes of open data sets for different areas and