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Regione Toscana

LMO Description
Organisation: 
Regione Toscana
Proposed role in INSPIRE development
  • allocate experts to Drafting Teams
    • yes
  • submit reference material as input to the Drafting Teams
    • yes
  • submit reference material as input to the Drafting Teams
    • yes
  • register a project to test/revise/develop the draft Implementing Rules
    • yes
  • contribute to awareness raising and training
    • yes
  • be kept informed
    • yes
  • implement pilot projects to test/revise/develop the draft Implementing Rules
    • yes
    Details
    Level of authority: 
    Regional
    22990 square km in central Italy
    Formal Mandate: 
    <p>Regione Toscana has formal mandate by the State for coordinating, developing, maintaining spatial data DB and providing web access at regional level. </p>
    Main Activities: 
    Project management. coordinaton, development and auditing. Tools and services implementation aimed to user spatial data web access. Regional standards definition. Spatial data and products compliancy tests. Regione Toscana actively participates to e-gov projects, among others SigmaTer (cadastral and topographic data), INTERGEO (territorial integrated teller) and develops own projects like i-mobility(territorial access), iter.net(roads and addresses), Geosigma(data re-use for urban management and administrative applications). TOPOCORE is a project Regione Toscana is leading in a consortium of 20 members of 8 EU countries, aimed at protection of spatial data investment through standardisation in spatial data storage and re-use.
    URL: 
    http://www.rete.toscana.it/cartografia
    Comments: 
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    Area of work/experience
    Geographic Domain:: 
    Regional
    Description of geographic extent: 22990 square km in central Italy
    Societal Sector: 
    Regional
    Specific Expertise: 
    Metadata
    Network Services
    Data Specifications
    Previous Experience relevant for INSPIRE development: 
    Active participation in Topographic DB specs definition within IntesaGIS (Agreement on GIS developments among State, Regions, Local Administrations) working groups.
    Primary Business: 
    Environmental mgt, Agriculture, Transport, Mapping
    Environmental application domains: 
    Climate change, Spatial Planning, Monitoring Urban sprawl, Fringe area development, Transport development, Urban development, Rural development, Water Resources Management, Coastal Zone Management, Vegetation Management, Forest Fire Prevention and Management, Floods & extreme weather Prevention and Management
    INSPIRE Data Themes
    Coordinator
    Coordinate reference systems, Geographical grid systems, Elevation, Land cover, Orthoimagery, Geology
    Producer
    Elevation, Land cover, Orthoimagery, Geology