Simone Aliprandi - personal weblog: New law about open geodata in Italy

“On August 7, 2012 Italian parliament approved a new law (legge n. 135/2012) related to the socalled ‘public spending review’ where we can find an interesting reform about open geodata.  Here is an English translation of the first part of Article 23, Paragraph 12-quaterdecies:  ‘To support the development of applications and services based on geospatial data and to develop the technologies of Earth, including for environmental protection, risk mitigation and scientific research, all the data and information acquired from soil, air and satellite platforms and financed by public resources must be available to all the potential users, within the limits imposed by reasons of safeguarding national security.’  It is a good piece of news in the field of openness for Italy. Now we have only to hope that this new rule become effective soon in all the Italian public administrations and not just a nice principle...”