 Hey guys, welcome back to my youtube channel. This is Daniel Rosso here I want to do a video today about the GIS systems that exist in Israel These are really really useful resources if you're interested in mapping and what's on the ground here and Borders and that kind of thing. These are basically a GIS firstly stands for a geographic information system and these are basically maps that have a lot of Information that can be superimposed in the formal layer So you might be wondering and I'll go into the GIS in a second Well, what's the difference between the GIS system and Google Maps or open street maps for any different mapping system? And really it's in the data They have the same common function of a map being displayed and you can zoom around the map and move around the map But whereas if we take Google Maps for instance, you can toggle on or off a live traffic layer in the GIS system If you if you toggled on every single layer There would be virtually nothing that you could actually see because there's just so much information Available on the map now in Israel there are two main GIS systems or types of GIS systems available One of those is the national GIS system That's called Govmap and the URL is Govmap.gov.al. These are free public resources So you don't actually need to pay for access to them Govmap actually does have an API So if you are a developer and you want to integrate the data from Govmap Into an open-source application you can actually do that and I've seen some really interesting Projects here, but you don't need to pay and I don't think they're restricted to Israel even I just tried to access Govmap from a Australian VPN and I was able to get it So these are basically public resources you can do everything from find out where what where exactly the boundaries of area A, B and C are through to finding out the municipal boundaries for neighborhoods through to finding out the city boundary exactly where that is And the list goes on and on and on so I'm just gonna jump into the first one of these So this is Govmap now Govmap is as I said the national GIS system So this one is not restricted to anywhere in Israel You can zoom in or zoom out and you can turn on the layers and there's info Then the local government bodies maintain their own GIS system So the Jerusalem Municipality has one Tel Aviv have has one Alaska's one I think Haifa has one even smaller cities have their own GIS systems But let's just take the national one and go on to Jerusalem. So I've done videos on a few Aspects of the GIS that I found useful myself. One of those one of those is the area ABC layer Now on the side, you can see you have a Shirvot Which basically stands for our means I should say layers and you have at the bottom here buttons saying a Shirvot Meda Nosifot Additional layers as I always say the pronunciation of my Hebrew could be in probably is imperfect But that's what those buttons mean and what what I've just toggled on here is the area ABC layer And what the information you're seeing on the map is exactly where areas AB and CR now you might be wondering Well, why would this be useful? People are sometimes posting on social media groups, you know, where can I meet as there's somewhere? I can meet a Palestinian person and as I've done a video before it's technically illegal for Israelis to enter area A The last bank, so if we know the reason then you want to know exactly where is area A You can actually see with great precision the boundaries of area A So this is Ramallah here, and this is if we click on to Tulum Avir and we get into our satellite imagery Suddenly we get access to very very high-quality satellite imagery now. It does say in the information layer here You have Odot Hashirvah. There used to be info there I'm not seeing it anymore. That's interesting. Anyway, Whatever the origin or the provenance of this layer, it's very very detailed You can see that technically this soccer field is apparently not in area A and all these houses are in area A So if you compare this to the kind of information you can get from the UN maps This is on a completely different level. You can do a few different things. You can also do if I want to do save You can export some of this as a As an image you can download it and if you want to use the API you need to be a registered user So that is the area ABC Filter or layer is really the better words. I'm just going to take that off And now all that's just been cleared from the map So you can do I mean, there's just a lot a lot of information So let's just call it all up for a second shiqvot meda nosfot and we can see here you can filter by There is just a lot of information I'm trying to find something more obscure a three camping so camping sites I'm just gonna turn this one on add it to the map and I don't think in Jerusalem We're gonna find any camping sites But you can find there is a camping site here and generally if you click on top of a symbol If once you add a layer, you'll be able to get some information about that layer as you can see here There is information about this particular camping sites. You can literally search around the whole the whole country Which is pretty cool. There's also a tool here You can do stuff like export you can select so let's say I have a camping site layer turned on You can also draw over a shape And it'll export all the information found so you can see within the box. I just drew there It's located one camping site and then I can also usually yeah I can export this to a XLX Format and this is all completely free. This is actually tremendous resource that you can use I just popped open on this screen and now I've got a spreadsheet with the information I pulled out of the GS. So that's the national GIS This is the API documentation for the national GPS available at API dot gov map dot gov dot i al Then you have the city GIS system. So for instance, this is a GIS system of the Jerusalem municipality which is up on the area's website and you can click on to lignisa Lama, Lama, Lama Rejet a GPS And I just clicked into it here Now this is the Jerusalem GIS now the difference is as you can see it's only doing Jerusalem, there's just gray stuff elsewhere. So, you know, what I could do here is There is a layer I believe for The municipal boundary that may not exactly equate with what's on the map so you can see for instance here there's a little bit of Data or territory in the GIS system. That's actually beyond the municipal boundary So this is exactly where the defined Municipal boundary is which is really interesting to know you might wonder if a particular part So this actually shows you An interesting situation that you have some places that are after the security wall That Israel built to protect itself from attackers from the Palestinian territories For instance, this is quite well known for akav or cover akab in Arabic is actually within the municipal boundary As you can see here on the GIS. It's within this blue dotted layer And if I go into the unlike wise on this particular On this particular GIS system you can toggle between Satellite imagery. So let's go for I'm going to change here to satellite imagery Let's just see here Okay and We were saying that this territory cover akab is within the Jerusalem municipal boundary and It's actually past the security security barrier and at the best of my knowledge There isn't a layer for that But this is kind of the checkpoint here was Calandia and the wall probably comes I think comes around somewhere like this I think this is the wall as you can see it. This is security barrier You can see the patrol road there you can see it's skirting around the place And so all this is past the security barrier and yet all this place is technically to find in Jerusalem So these are the kind of interesting things you can discover in GIS now This is the Tel Aviv municipality GIS again, it looks slightly different But they tend to have pretty similar layers of information and you can see this is the Tel Aviv one So Chinook for that childhood services and religious services But they suffer To do but take an asset. So let's turn on Synagogues and now look at this. I can see all the different Shoals or synagogues in Tel Aviv. So to an extent you might say this information overlaps with What's available in Google Maps? You could search Google Maps for a synagogues But this this is like the official data Maintained by Tel Aviv now look at some more cool things I can do You'll see there's a filter icon Next to the at the layer in this case the synagogue layer, and I can actually filter different things with Seymour Chov Noosach Tfilah, right? This is crazy. So noosach Tfilah is a is a filter here And the options are Ashkenaz, Klali, Edut Amizrach or Timani. So let's go for Let's go for Edut Amizrach and click on snan for filter and now I should be showing I believe I hope it might take a second to update now I'm only showing the Edut Amizrach synagogues in Tel Aviv and as before I can click on to any one And I should be able to get information now as you can see the Tel Aviv one is a little bit on the Laggier side, I would say it's taking a real while to load the information here But if I click on one if it will let that work for me Okay, it's having a it's having a slow day, but that's the that's the Tel Aviv one Okay Here is the Elat GIS system So this is just for the town of Elat and the sites of Israel and it's kind of like the Jerusalem and Tel Aviv ones in that It's only available for the city and it kind of stops here at the road going out to Tabitha the border with Egypt And that is it. So that was just a quick overview of the GIS systems I think they're amazing Resources if you have a query about what electricity networks in your area where the cellular antennas are where the municipal boundary is There's way more information accessible through these than there is through Google Maps and they're free to use I'll put the URLs for the national Jerusalem Tel Aviv ones in the description. Thank you for watching