Franco Vico (*) PierGiorgio Cipriano (**) (*) Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy, e-mail franco.vico@polito.it (**) CSI Piemonte, Torino, Italy, e-mail piergiorgio.cipriano@csi.it Regione Piemonte multi-level SDI: an incomplete puzzle
Contents What pieces of Regione Piemonte multi-level (local-provincialregional) SDI are in place yet What pieces are not, and why (tentatively) How European initiatives can be helpful in establishing a multi-level SDI
Statistics Piemonte out of Italia Population: 4 million out of 56 million (8%) Area: 2.5 million Ha out of 30 million (7%) Provinces: 8 out of 103 (8%) Comunità montane: 48 out of 361 (13%) Municipalities: 1206 out of 8100 (15%) Total Local Authorities in Regione Piemonte: 1263
CSI Piemonte Consortium for Information System Founded in 1977 Employees over 950 Annual revenue 98.1 million Euro 48 associated bodies (among which provinces, municipalities, hospitals, local healthcare centres, municipal agencies...) Develops data-processing procedures for individual administration departments, while targeting activities towards the integration of public body computer systems through ICT technologies
GIS applications in Piemonte supported by CSI- Piemonte (1) Fields of activity At Regional level: remote sensing, geological surveys, environment, natural hazard (EIA), regional planning At Provincial level: cadastre, topographic maps, territorial planning, street and addresses gazetteers, tourism and leisure At Municipal level: topographic maps, urban planning...
GIS applications in Piemonte supported by CSI- Piemonte (2) Kinds of activity data collection metadata collection data discovery data evaluation client/server application webgis applications map production REGION??????? PROVINCES?????? MUNICIPALITIES????
What is a SDI: a check list Catalogue Metadata Framework data Web mapping (for browse users of data) Institutional and legal framework see Nebert D.D, ed, 2001, Developing Spatial Data Infrastructure. The SDI Cookbook, ver 1.1, 15 May 2001
Regione Piemonte SDI SITAD Distributed Environmental Geographic Information System Represents the regional platform for GI collected at regional, provincial and municipal level Based on geographic databases (ESRI SDE) CEN-TC287 metadata catalogue Oriented to webgis applications Geographic search engine & GI Repository Work in progress (e-gov regional project) Metadata server Distributed data servers
Regione Piemonte SDI Administrative boundaries Census data Addresses Cadastre Municipal urban plans (Mosaic) Geology Agriculture Land cover Public services Cultural heritage Topographic map (1:10000) http://gis.csi.it/repertorio/v3/all/index.htm http://www.rupar.piemonte.it/canali/territorio/index.htm
Regional level: Regione Piemonte SDI check list Catalogue Metadata Framework data Web mapping (for browse users) Institutional and legal framework
Provincia di Torino SDI Administrative boundaries Census data Addresses Cadastre Municipal urban plans (Mosaic) Public services Cultural heritage Agriculture Topographic map (1:5000) http://www.provincia.torino.it/web_cartografico/servurb/index.html
Provincial level: Provincia Torino SDI check list Catalogue Metadata Framework data Web mapping (for browse users) Institutional and legal framework
Torino Municipality SDI Administrative boundaries Census & socio-economic data Addresses Cadastre Public buildings & areas Town Plan Retail Plan Public services & tourism Public works Topographic map (1:1000)... at the moment Intranet only
Local level: Torino Municipality SDI check list Catalogue Metadata Framework data Web mapping (for browse users) Institutional and legal framework
Strengths Convergence of acquisition management and distribution of geographic data from local to regional level Sharing of experiences and technologies Implicit standardisation and harmonisation of procedures and data
Strategic weaknesses Lack of laws or explicit guide-lines at regional level Insufficient political support Lack of strategic co-ordination (e.g. a formal co-ordination board...)
Operational weaknesses Insufficient integration among various SDI levels Partnerships too strictly framed in annual/project order Insufficient interactions among final GI users and GIS analysts, DB administrators, SW developers...
Conclusions An explicit definition of SDI never appears in official documents (and the word data infrastructure is rarely used in Italy) At decision/political level: need for a better understanding of potentials of SDI concept At operational level: need to improve awareness and education of GI users in public bodies European initiatives, directives can promote the SDI vision and can be helpful in establishing an explicit multi-level SDI in Regione Piemonte