Carthographical base for territorial planning in Lombardy Region

In compliance with regionallaw n.12 dated 11 March 2005 -"Law far the govemment of the territory"- and with the Implementing Rules of Inspire, Lombardy Region is completing the realization oftopographic databases at different scales; for this purpose Lombardy Region has published standards and technical specifications. The aim is to create and share a unique regional database that can be implemented through GIS, and that is able to share and manipulate data. This up-to-date and shared database will be the geographicaI reference point for ali Urban location based Services. In order to stimulate this production, Lombardy Region has introduced a funding calI to promote associations among local administrations on the topic of geographic information services based upon open source code and standards.