Today, Uzbekistan has no open coordinate system, which is one of the factors that hamper development of an information system for cadastral registration and state registration of real property rights, as well as the design of the National Geographic Information System, aimed at providing open and quality public services, including e-services, to the population and businesses.

To the present day, Uzbekistan, has been using the coordinate system of 1942 (SC-42) as the state system of geodetic coordinates, which covers the whole territory of the country. The SC-42 system has been used in the creation of a huge amount of geodetic information and materials classified as official secret.

In order to create an open coordinate system, benchmark data (geodetic data to determine the parameters of the coordinate system) that differ from the benchmark data of SC-42 will have to be used, for instance, the World Geodetic System of 1984 (WGS-84).

There is only one comprehensive international geocentric coordinate system – International Terrestrial Reference System (ITRS), and World Geodetic System – WGS-84 (also geocentric), recognized as standard by many international organizations, as well as used by popular cartographic resources, such as Google Maps, Yandex Map, TomTom. In terms of the composition of their parameters, ITRS and WGS-84 are virtually identical.

The Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan adopted resolution “On the Application and Open Use of International Geodetic Coordinate Systems on the Territory of the Republic of Uzbekistan” on 26 December 2017, for the application and open use of international geodetic coordinate systems on the territory of the country.

The resolution was developed and adopted with the support of the World Bank under its framework of assistance to Uzbekistan.

The adoption of the resolution will allow using geospatial data to create and maintain a National Information System, a single system of state cadastres, production of cadastral and user maps available to public and private users. This, in turn, will allow improving the quality of public services, including e-services, in the field of cadastre and real property registration, and many other related areas, provided to the public, businesses and government agencies.

Private companies will be able to use maps created on the basis of an international coordinate system to create new services, applications for mobile phones that are based on positioning on the ground, and become worthy competitors for Google maps in Uzbekistan. For individuals and entrepreneurs – it enables obtaining open cadastral data with information on the location of a particular land plot or real property.