Proposal of a new geomorphological cartography model for application purposes - geomorphological map of Italy at 1:50,000 scale
This second issue of Quaderno n. 13 includes the proposal for an application model of geomorphological mapping "oriented to objects" with full coverage, developed in a GIS environment. This model has the aim of providing freelance geologists and engineering companies with a tool capable of supporting institutional decisions connected to the territory and to activities related to the operating standards required by current legislation.
It should be noted that this proposal, by resorting to advanced procedures, is not going to replace, but to integrate the traditional cartographic approach to "symbols", foreseen in issue I of Quaderno n. 13. In fact, the proposal for a new geomorphological cartography model will have to be tested on some pilot sheets of particular institutional relevance.
The geomorphological cartography model developed originates from the contents already schematized in the geomorphological database, published in the second version of issue I of Quaderno n.13, reorganizing them, in order to formulate an “object-oriented approach”.
Given the complexity of the aspects related to the extension of this methodological proposal to all morphogenetic categories, at the moment it was considered appropriate to limit the experimentation only to slope forms related to gravity, due to their relevance in the application field. In this regard, Appendix A has been prepared, which contains the scheme of the information structure purposely oriented to objects and related to gravitational forms.
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