Summary:

The execution of tasks in the range of rural landscape protection and sha-ping, space management and planning requires relevant geographic information. At present, this information is collected in all kinds of databases and the key questions concern their topicality and usefulness. DGPS (Differential GPS) and RTK (Real Time Kinematic) satellite posi-tioning techniques are used for geodetic works and for collecting geo-spatial data for GIS systems. This paper presents the evaluation of the usefulness of the selected Mobile Mapper Topcon GMS-2 satellite receiver for the construction of databases for street furniture objects (shrines, roadside crosses, monuments, commemorative plaques, etc.). Research measurements were conducted in the right of way of national road no. 79 in the Kraków - Sandomierz section. It has been demonstrated in the paper that the applied DGPS technique allows for field location of objects in real time with the accuracy up to 1m. The result is the creation of the database of geographic data of the measured objects in Quantum GIS programme. The presented methodology has confirmed high usefulness of the proposed solution with the relatively low costs of measurement equipment.