THE NATIONAL SPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURE OF BRAZIL (INDE) MAKING VISIBLE SOME INVISIBLE: THE CASE OF THE BRAZILIAN GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS

Abstract

The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics - IBGE and the National Institute of Industrial Property - INPI, established a partnership with the goal of establishing technical, scientific, educational and cultural cooperation between the Institutions, aiming the development and the execution of joint actions for standardizations, spread and support to execution of spatial analyses to inclusion of the Geographic Indications, according to Legislative Decree 6.666/2008, which regulate the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (INDE) in Brazil. Both IBGE and INPI in the context of their specializations, collaborate in making visible, though the grant of registration of geographical indications and its cartographic representation, the activities of sustainable development developed by some brazilians local productive arrangements. This fact is determinant to the economic development of the area in which are inserted those Geographical Indications. The aim of this paper is to explicit the example of some Brazilian Geographical Indications, made visible in the country with the help of its insertion in the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (INDE), the main repository of Brazilian geospatial information through their inclusion in the Cartographic Base Continuous from Brazil on scale of 1:1.000.000 - BCIM as an area of development and control.