Tirana’s public GIS portal is part of the municipality’s wider effort to organize and share geographic information about the city. The municipality’s website integrates map layers from gis.tirana.al, making spatial data available through a public-facing map. 2
The portal sits alongside an internal GIS system used by municipal departments. A World Bank account of Tirana’s urban planning work says the integrated GIS and open-data environment helped departments collaborate across organizational boundaries; its GIS database brings together maps and research and is maintained by a small team of GIS specialists. Some information is also made available to the public through the city’s open-data portal. 9
The municipality’s planning guidance describes a GIS platform intended to show approved and in-progress detailed local plans against Tirana’s general local plan. 10 The World Bank also reports that development-related data is updated weekly in georeferenced form, and that local plans and ongoing planning processes are published online. 11
Available sources do not establish a specific launch date for the public GIS portal, identify individual project leads, or provide a complete current inventory of its map layers and services. A separate account says the municipality’s broader website was developed in 2018 and that its map incorporated layers from the GIS server, but this does not confirm when gis.tirana.al itself began operating. 2