PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION GI-BASED WEB-SITES FOR SPATIAL PLANNING: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

In many countries, governments and local administrations promote initiatives to exploit the potential offered by the Internet giving citizens access to online virtual spaces on the Web where they deliver public sector information and services. Developments in web-GIS technology (Peng and Tzou, 2003) offer a plethora of tools for managing Geographic Information (GI) on the web. Those governmental bodies and local authorities whose mandates concern spatial development, started to publish GI contents on their web sites: according to their mandates, some of them publish geographic data implementing planning procedure on the web. With this premise, the paper deals with the use of Public Administration GI on the web, and focuses on the support to spatial planning processes. The results are presented of an ongoing comparative study on the accessibility of Geographic Information at public authorities’ websites in Denmark and Italy based on an analysis methodology already applied to the Ital...