The Italian Geographic Military Institute and the Veneto Region project for a new geographical names database

Veneto Region and the Italian Geographic Military Institute (IGMI) are developing a project for integrating their geographical names databases. The project is based on the INSPIRE Directive and the UN reccomendations for the standardization of geographical names and human rights concerning the indication of the names of the places where people live. The data used in the project come from archives of various organizations and will be standardized and merged. Examples of these data are the official Map of Italy, Veneto Region Base Map, topographical databases and archives from local authorities. At an operational level, in the first phase the original databases were merged and standardized in order to have consistent data. This goal was reached using semi-automatic data processing methodologies due to the volume of data and information from various sources. At the end of this processing, data will be shared with all Veneto Region municipalities for a complete integration.