Purpose: to evaluate the benefits of using a digital map at the Federal State Budgetary Institution “Rostovmeliovodkhoz Administration” (FSBI) by comparing the costs of using a hard disk and a QGIS digital map.
Materials and methods. Costs were compared using two query execution options: a hard disk and a QGIS digital map developed using publicly available cartographic resources and specialized layers created during the digitization of the FSBI's property. Information provided by the FSBI's Financial and Economic Department served as the initial data for the cost comparison.
Results and discussion. The sequence of key operations required to execute a Department query (Department of Land Reclamation of the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia (Department Request) was determined and the corresponding time and wage costs were specified. The main operations when using h were requests for information on siphons and topographic surveys of the Azov Main Canal (AzMC), searching for paper maps and reference books in the archive, scanning and copying the map, and entering information manually onto the map (paper). The main cost-intensive operations when using the QGIS digital map were requests for information on design elevations and topographic surveys of the AzMC, and drawing picket points on the digital map. According to calculations, for the hard disk option, the total time costs were 67.5 hours and monetary costs were 75,120.75 rubles; for the digital map option, the total costs were 24 hours and 21,367.68 rubles, respectively.
Conclusions. The study assessed the advantages of using a digital map in the work of the Rostovmeliovodkhoz Administration, resulting in time and cost savings of 64 and 72 %, respectively.
irrigation systems, hydraulic structures, property objects, digital map, QGIS, costs
Myachin M. A., Voyevodina L. A. Experience using the QGIS digital map at the Federal State Budgetary Institution “Rostovmeliovodkhoz Administration”. Ways of Increasing the Efficiency of Irrigated Agriculture. 2025;97(3):203–214. (In Russ.).
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