Geographical Survey Institute of Japan
- Geographical Survey Institute of Japan
The nihongo|Geographical Survey Institute of Japan|国土地理院|Kokudo Chiri-in, or GSI, is the national institution responsible for surveying and mapping the national land of Japan. It is an organization attached to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.
Its main offices are situated in Tsukuba City of Ibaraki Prefecture.
It also runs a museum, situated in Tsukuba, the Science Museum of Map and Survey.
The GSI in fiction
The GSI featured in the novel Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami as the intended workplace of his roommate, "stormtrooper". At the time the novel was set, in the late sixties, the GSI was situated in Tokyo.
ee also
*Japanese maps, the history of mapping in Japan.
*Japanese map symbols, the official symbols used by the GSI in maps.
External links
* [http://www.gsi.go.jp/ GSI home page] , in Japanese
* [http://terras.gsi.go.jp/gps/geonet_top.html GONET(GPS Earth observation Network System)] , in Japanese
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