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G. Martirano, V. Gagliardi, F. Vinci (Epsilon Italia)
M. Gaccione (Province of Cosenza)
An open-source based SDI
for local spatial planning
compliant to policy requirements
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SUMMARY
• Policy requirements
• Enhancement of the existing local SDI
• Data model
• Procedure for the on-line editing
• Webgis
• Conclusions
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• The spatial planning in the Calabria Region (Southern Italy) is
governed by the Regional Law n° 19/2002 and its associated
Guidelines (2007), which set the rules for an harmonised spatial
planning at the three different interlinked levels: regional,
provincial and council.
• Because it is not straightforward to univocally translate these
rules into operational tools and procedures to be applied by the
spatial planners, the development of a common data model is
needed.
POLICY REQUIREMENTS
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• In order to support its 155 Municipalities in preparing their Council
Structural Plans (spatial plans at council level), the Department of
Spatial Planning of the Province of Cosenza has enhanced its
existing SDI, developing the following three additional
components:
– A data model for the Council Structural Plans (PSC)
– A procedure for the PSC on-line editing
– A webgis for the consultation of the PSC
ENHANCEMENT OF THE EXISTING SDI
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http://sipitec.provincia.cs.it
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• Objectives
– To develop a data model for the Council Structural Plans to be proposed as
a reference standard for the Municipalities, focusing om the thematic layers
and their attributes, in adherence to the Urban Law of Calabria Region and
its Guidelines and to the outcomes of the Technical Committee for the
Geographic Information System and Observatory of the Urban Changes of
the Calabria Region.
– To develop a webgis based procedure to enable the Municipalities to
prepare their Council Structural Plans in conformity to the propsoed data
model.
⇒ to optimise the process of the Department of Territory Planning
and Management aimed to verify the compatibility of the Council
Structural Plans with the Coordination Territorial Plan of the
Province.
DATA MODEL
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• Phase 1, started in Dec. 2011 and completed 15 June
2012
– Conceptual data model for the Council Structural Plans created
encoding the textual/conceptual rules set by the above
mentioned policy requirements
– Logical data model drafted in excel format
– Physical data model drafted in shapefiles
– Physical data model generated using a PostGis geodatabase
– Draft version of data model tested by 8 pilot Municipalities
– Data model finalised after intense and fruitful consultation
between the participants to the testing and released version v4.5
DM – DEVELOPMENT STATUS
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• Phase 1, started in Dec. 2011 and completed 15 June
2012
– Conceptual data model for the Council Structural Plans created
encoding the textual/conceptual rules set by the above
mentioned policy requirements
– Logical data model drafted in excel format
– Physical data model drafted in shapefiles
– Physical data model generated using a PostGis geodatabase
– Draft version of data model tested by 8 pilot Municipalities
– Data model finalised after intense and fruitful consultation
between the participants to the testing and released version v4.5
DM – DEVELOPMENT STATUS
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• Phase 2, to be completed in October 2012
– Full application of the finalised version of the DM to 8 Council
Structural Plans
– Formalisation of the logical data model in UML
– Creation of a gml application schema (xsd)
– Adoption by law by the Regional Government
• Phase 3, to be completed in December 2012
– Creation of the mapping rules for schema transformation into the
INSPIRE Land Use DS v3.0
– Remapping of the available spatial datasets and metadata
– Network services deployment
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Nome Attributo Descrizione Attributo Tipo AttributoValori Codelist
AttributoDescrizione ValoriCodelist
A A
B B
C C
D D
E E
F F
T Vie di comunicazione
R Rispetti
V Vincoli
PL Piani di Lottizzazione
PZ Piani di Zona
PIP Piani Insediamenti Produttivi
PR Piani di Recupero
PA1 Piano attuativo non attuato
PA2 Piano attuativo approvato
PA3 Piano attuativo convenzionato
PA4 Piano attuativo completato
noteNote (campo di testo
libero)Testo
QC: Pianificazione Comunale
vigenteProgetto di PRG progettoprg POLIGONO
Modello Dati Commissione SITO Layer/Descrizione Nome shapefileGeometri
a
statoatt Stato di attuazione Codelist
Attributi
tipoelem
Informazioni sulla tipologia
dell’elemento di progetto
del PRG
Codelist
paAree assoggettate a
pianificazione attuativaCodelist
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Webgis based procedure for the on-line editing
• Use of an open source GIS desktop client to edit the
plans in conformity to the proposed standard
– Server-side implemented architecture:
• use of the open-source web server Geoserver
• Enabling of the WFS-T protocol on the PostGis geodatabase
– Client-side implemented architecture:
• Use of QGIS open source GIS desktop client
• Creation in Python environment of custom forms for the geodatabase
population, encoding all the codelists and the constraints present in the
data model
• Creation of QGIS stylesheets
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Webgis based procedure for the on-line editing
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Webgis based procedure for the on-line editing
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Webgis based procedure for the on-line editing
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• In order to allow the consultation of the Council
Structural Plans generated in conformity to the data
model it has been created a dedicated webgis, using
the open-source Mapserver/pmapper platform,
integrated in the existing geoportal
WEBGIS
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• Some advantages of the implemented local SDI for
spatial planning compliant to the policy requirements:
– the use of a common data model which facilitates spatial
analyses that can be made on harmonised datasets; these
analysis are useful to perform territorial benchmarking and
compatibility checks of the council plans with the provincial
and/or regional spatial plans;
– the use of the on-line editing procedure, which ensures –
contextually to the editing phase - the compliance of the
spatial plan against the policy requirements, avoiding further
efforts and costs related to transformation and validation
processes.
CONCLUSIONS
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• Some advantages of the adopted methodology:
– Inspired by INSPIRE in terms of:
• transparency of the process
• consultation with stakeholders
• formalisms progressively evolving towards INSPIRE compliance
• roadmap for the adoption by law
– Fully in line with what we learnt yesterday in the Panel
Discussion in the Plenary session “J let’s go at regional and
local level J”
CONCLUSIONS
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THANK YOU
and see you at the “SDIs and Smart
Public Authorities” workshop to be held
in Edinburgh the 12 September 2012
