The Borgo GIS

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Since the beginning of the nineties spatial technologies, and in particular Geographical Information Systems (GIS), have been widely used as the ideal instrument for managing cultural heritage. An ever growing number of organisations involved in conservation use GIS as the natural successor to, or partner of, existing database systems.
In Italy these systems have been used principally in university environments, in landscape archaeology and in documenting excavation data, whereas examples of local organisations, town councils etc. using them to manage cultural heritage are somewhat rare and limited to central and Northern Italy.
In this sense Muro Leccese is the ideal project for creating an advanced and functional system for managing the cultural and archaeological heritage of the old town, in partnership with ongoing urban development projects. This mapping database can be used to connect geographical information with information from excavations that have been carried out or which are in progress, as well as data from specific research into important buildings in urgent need of repair in Borgo Terra. To this you can add still more information on services, current structures and the population, creating a functional and structured system for organising and archiving which can be quickly and easily accessed.
Its primary function is that of mapping, rapidly and dynamically, the different phases which the historical centre of Muro Leccese has undergone during its evolution (Messapian, Roman, Medieval and Modern), through the creation of maps showing the distribution of archaeological evidence. The GIS of Borgo could also prove to be a useful tool in managing local administration, in the planning phases for general maintenance work or plans for urban renewal in the town. The realisation of the project will include archiving in digital form, in tailor made databases, all the written and photographic documentation regarding Borgo Terra. Each excavation plan is vectored and linked to existing plans. This is all carried out using digital surveying techniques through the integrated use of topographic instrumentation such as the Total Station and GPS (Global Positioning System).
The final objective is to make this tool available to the public, with the aim of raising awareness of, preserving and promoting cultural and historic heritage, through on line publication of a web version of the Borgo Terra GIS.