From Analog to Digital: Transformation of Spatial Planning in Slovak Conditions

Digitization and deployment of information and communication technologies is a global trend in all areas of human activities, including the area of capturing the surrounding landscape in the form of a digital twin. These processes are also reflected in the field of spatial planning, which can effectively deploy geospatial information technologies in its processes related to its entire life cycle, from the process of gathering and evaluating suggestions, spatial planning documentations and other relevant documents to the registration and publications of the full spatial planning documentation. That is why Slovakia proceeded to create the new legislation related to spatial planning, which came into force those days and whose philosophy is based on the gradual full digitization of this issue. Part of this process is also the creation of an information system that will become a platform usable by all stakeholders. The aim of this contribution is to present the initial phase of digitization of the spatial planning process, which includes the creation of a uniform data structure for spatial plan processors, which will enable the creation of an obligatory graphic part of the spatial plan in a standardized, fully digital form.