Geography of WWI sites along the italian front by means of GIS tools

Abstract

In the framework of the commemorations for the First World War, a GIS project was started in order to identify, archive and disseminate the places involved by the war along the Italian front. The GIS operates through a set of raster layers represented by more than 500 raster maps and a set of vector layers dealing with places, catchment basins, front lines, deployment areas. Particular attention has been paid to all the occurrences of place names in order to univocally associate one place name to a set of geographic coordinates, thus creating a specific geodatabase. An online GIS version is available for data search and visualization.