The Beigua Regional park
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description
Various levels of planning and management are
present in Regional Parks, where a local actor (the Park management and
staff) has to produce and manage geo-information that is complementary
to other geo information produced at different level. That implies a
continuous exchange of data and information (be it maps or other
geo-related information) that from the producer who has originated it
must be delivered to other bodies both as reference for other
information to be produced and for check and validation/ approval of
plans. The flow of geo-information is then bi-directional.
"Parco del Beigua" (PdB) is one of the parks created by Liguria Region, classified as Natural Regional Park in 1995. It spans over 8715 ha in the territory of 10 communes. It is mainly a vast highland facing the sea in the point where the Apennines run closest to the Liguria coast; the highest summits are from 1100 to about 1300 m above sea level. It comprises two different environments: rocky cliffs in the Southern part (with a flora adapted to a severe rock soil rich of Mg), large and smooth woods in the Northern part. It holds both natural and cultural sites and is one the most important areas for bird migration in the Northern Mediterranean coast.
As overall the perspective of the use-case is to embed the geo-information managed by PdB in a seamless flow that gathers various information from all available sources and exploits it for planning, management and promotion. These flows stream along all the different levels involved (EU, National, Regional and local), according to the scheme highlighted in INSPIRE principles.
More specifically the pursued aims are:
Management (use of geo-information by planners and officers)
Promotion (access to geo-information by citizens)
Creation of a data repository and look-up catalog for any future application involving geo-spatial data use.
The use case has been developed by the GISIG team and with the participation of the Regione Liguria and Provincia di Genova.
There are currently three WMS services publishing various layers of geographic information related to park management and general thematic mapping aims. The added value of the PdB use case consists indeed in the variety of map-serving software applications utilized within different environments.
The datasets related to the Beigua Park have been published through the GISIG WMS server using both the software Intergraph GeoMedia WebMap Mapserver and IONIC RedSpiderWeb and partly published by the Regione Liguria GIS office (Datasiel) using the open source package "MapServer". After the WMS service is published, the URL is submitted to the automatic "Registry Service" available on the Nature-GIS portal to be processed and verified in its compliance to the OGC standard. If a sufficient rate of compliance is achieved, then it will be directly added to the list of available layers and displayed in the map-viewer.
"Parco del Beigua" (PdB) is one of the parks created by Liguria Region, classified as Natural Regional Park in 1995. It spans over 8715 ha in the territory of 10 communes. It is mainly a vast highland facing the sea in the point where the Apennines run closest to the Liguria coast; the highest summits are from 1100 to about 1300 m above sea level. It comprises two different environments: rocky cliffs in the Southern part (with a flora adapted to a severe rock soil rich of Mg), large and smooth woods in the Northern part. It holds both natural and cultural sites and is one the most important areas for bird migration in the Northern Mediterranean coast.
As overall the perspective of the use-case is to embed the geo-information managed by PdB in a seamless flow that gathers various information from all available sources and exploits it for planning, management and promotion. These flows stream along all the different levels involved (EU, National, Regional and local), according to the scheme highlighted in INSPIRE principles.
More specifically the pursued aims are:
The use case has been developed by the GISIG team and with the participation of the Regione Liguria and Provincia di Genova.
There are currently three WMS services publishing various layers of geographic information related to park management and general thematic mapping aims. The added value of the PdB use case consists indeed in the variety of map-serving software applications utilized within different environments.
The datasets related to the Beigua Park have been published through the GISIG WMS server using both the software Intergraph GeoMedia WebMap Mapserver and IONIC RedSpiderWeb and partly published by the Regione Liguria GIS office (Datasiel) using the open source package "MapServer". After the WMS service is published, the URL is submitted to the automatic "Registry Service" available on the Nature-GIS portal to be processed and verified in its compliance to the OGC standard. If a sufficient rate of compliance is achieved, then it will be directly added to the list of available layers and displayed in the map-viewer.