GRASS GIS Sample Dataset Piemont, Italy

Description and discussion of (future) standardized GRASS GIS 7 dataset - an updated GRASS GIS 7 location to be used in manual pages, tutorials, courses, code testing, development and perhaps OSGeo Live.

Note: The user-oriented page with examples and list of existing datasets is at ​GRASS Wiki: GRASS GIS Standardized Sample Datasets.

Contributors: Luca Delucchi, Markus Neteler, [contribute and add yourself]

Background information

From ​Wikipedia: Piedmont (/ˈpiːdmɒnt/; Italian: Piemonte, pronounced [pjeˈmonte]; Piedmontese and Occitan: Piemont; French: Piémont) is one of the 20 regions of Italy. It has an area of 25,402 square kilometres (9,808 sq mi) and a population of about 4.6 million. The capital of Piedmont is Turin.

Data sources:

• ​http://www.dati.piemonte.it/
• ​http://webgis.arpa.piemonte.it/geoportale/ (WMS/WFS, data, catalogue)
• ​http://www.openstreetmap.org

Basic Piemont location with PERMANENT mapset

This is based on the original Piemont location with simplified, standardized names for map layers, some updates (work in progress).

Common rules

• Names of maps/layers must be the same for all standardized datasets. No additions to names such as _10m or _wake_county are allowed. This also implies that names must be in English, national language is not allowed for national standardized datasets (however, if desired, we can can work on a script which would automatically ​rename multiple maps in dataset and would also find and replace names in documentation and tutorials).
• Description in tables here should be usable as title of the map. Separate details in description, which should not be part of the title, using commas or parentheses. Titles can differ between standardized datasets and can use national language (unlike names).

Raster maps

• resolution and extent (in the sense of number of rows and columns) should be the same of very similar for all standardized datasets (obviously, actual geographical extent can be different)
• standard resolution: 25m (marked as std)
• standard rows x columns (cells): xxx (x) (marked as std)

name	area	description	resolution	rows x columns (cells)	note
basins	Piemont	Watersheds derived from xxx	std	std	​ARPA Piemonte web service
elevation	Piemont	Elevation EU-DEM	std	std	​http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/eu-dem
elevation_shade	Piemont	Shaded relief	std	std	TODO shaded of elevation map
geology	Piemont	Geology derived from a vector map	std	std	​BDGeo100 - Litologia
lakes	Piemont	Piemont lakes	std	std
landuse	Piemont	Landuse in 2007	100m	std	eea_corine_2007_100m_piemonte.tif
orthophoto	Orbassano	orthophoto (R, G, B, NIR)	0.5m		orbassano_orto_rgb.tif, orbassano_orto.tfw, orbassano_orto.tif (NIR: TODO)
soils	Piemont	soil type			should be vector data? TODO: no access to "Cartografia dei suoli"!

Vector maps

name	area for NC	description for NC	feature type	number of features	note
buildings	Orbassano	building footprints	polygon/faces map		edifici_osm_UTM_32_WGS84.shp
boundary_municipalities	Piemont	Piemont municipalities map	polygon map		comuni_UTM_32_WGS84.shp
boundary_region	Piedmont	Piedmont boundary	polygon map		​ISTAT
boundary_state	Italy	Italian regions boundaries	polygon map		​ISTAT
census	Piedmont	Piedmont census blocks with attributes, clipped	polygon		TODO
firestations	Piedmont	fire stations	points map		OpenStreetMap
geology	Piedmont	Piedmont petrology map	polygon map		​Piemonte
geonames	Piedmont	Piedmont geonames data	points map		geonames (should be filtered??)
hospitals	Piedmont	Piedmont hospitals	points map		OpenStreetMap
history_markers	Piedmont				move to archeology mapset? TODO
parcels	for CC or rural area		polygon map		TODO
points_bare_surface	CC or rural	points map	bare ground lidar points for interpolation		​Piemonte, but they are not LiDAR point
points_of_interest	Piedmont	Piedmont points of interest	points map		OpenStreetMap historic + tourism=museum + tourism=artwork
railroads	Piedmont	Piedmont railroads	lines map		​Piemonte
roadsmajor	Piedmont	Piedmont main roads	lines map		autostrade_UTM32_WGS84.shp + strade_statali_UTM32_WGS84.shp (​source?). ​legend: A,Autostrade;P,Strade provinciali;R,Strade regionali;S,Strade statali;T,Strade provinciali (ex statali)
schools	Piedmont	Piedmont schools	points map		OpenStreetMap (only point data)
streams	Piedmont	Piedmont streams	lines map		fiumi_UTM_32_WGS84.shp
streets	Piedmont	Piedmont minor roads	lines map		strade_comunali_UTM32_WGS84.shp + strade_provinciali_UTM32_WGS84.shp
zipcodes	Piedmont	zip codes	polygon map		TODO

Specialized Mapsets

• Landsat
  • LS7-Italy-UTM32N-RGB_03_03.tif, LS7-Italy-UTM32N-RGB_04_02.tif, LS7-Italy-UTM32N-RGB_04_03.tif, LS7-Italy-UTM32N-RGB_05_02.tif, LS7-Italy-UTM32N-RGB_05_03.tif, LS7-Italy-UTM32N-RGB_05_04.tif, LS7-Italy-UTM32N-RGB_06_02.tif, LS7-Italy-UTM32N-RGB_06_03.tif
• SRTM (easy download with r.in.srtm.region addon)
  • SRTM_grezzo_piemonte_utm32wgs84.tif, srtm.xyz
  • SRTM_piemonte_shaded_utm32wgs84.tif
  • SRTM_piemonte_utm32wgs84.tif
  • srtm_torino.asc
• MODIS Land Surface Temperature (LST) data: 10 years of monthly average

Download of draft location package

Main location

• 2015: ​Piemonte (Italy) location (updated map names)
• 2012: ​Piemonte (Italy) location (outdated)

Specialized mapsets

• ​MODIS LST - Gap-filled Land Surface Temperatures, monthly averages, 2004-2014 (377 MB)