Recent Case Studies in English

According to Russian legislation in the field of protection of cultural heritage a territory and a protected area of a cultural heritage object must be registered in the United register and the State cadastre. The procedure of the registration includes the process of preparing a spatial information for the passport of a cultural heritage object and the land survey documentation. In the same time the ordered and coordinated information about cultural heritage objects is required for the practical activity of the specialists in the field of protection of the cultural heritage.

Communities throughout the state of New Hampshire desperately need GIS to improve community planning and natural resource management, but most balk at the high price of commercial software products. While ~10 towns in the state have full-time GIS staff, the 200+ other towns have little or no mapping capabilities in house. A capable, no-cost GIS software package is one of the only ways in which GIS has a chance to take root in these communities. Most towns in New Hampshire are unaware that free / open source GIS options exist.

The project TEAM-Minho, led by the University of Vigo, brings together scientific partners and water administrations on both sides of the river Minho to develop common tools for the coordinated implementation of the Water Framework Directive in its estuary.The aim of this project is the establishment of uniform scientific criteria, valid for Spain and Portugal, allowing the definition, referencing and classification of ecological status of transitional water bodies in southern Galicia and northern Portugal.

Ultimate goal of the “Dati Amianto” project is to enable the APSS (Azienda Provinciale per Servizi Sanitari) of Trento for the gathering of the data coming from the in-place examination of the status of asbestos surfaces (identified via MIVIS scanning) of the provincial territory.

The surfaces to analyse and their attributes are contained within a single shapefile (APSS sheet), logically divided into smaller parts and sent to every in-charge person.

The developed extension is thus required to provide a suitable solution for the municipal technicians for the:

• displaying of the data contained