ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT: The “Settore Tecnico Arredo Urbano e Verde” of the City of Milano has developed since 2004 an integrated Geographic Information System (GIS) to manage green areas. The GIS which has been developed by a working group of BEST (Building Environment Science & Technology Department) of the Politecnico of Milano and the company R3 GIS, is based on a PostGIS geodatabase. All applications access one central database. The different user groups access personalized Web interfaces for the management of Trees, Playgrounds, for programming maintenance work and for updating all other objects, based on the user rights defined in a central access rights manager. The system developed, completely based on open source software, has proven to be very reliable and performing, despite the dozens of different concurrent users and the high amount of data managed. The GIS is an important strategic tool to manage the information on the current situation and to monitor changes of the green areas.
