Directive (EU) 2019/1024, (known as the Open Data Directive) deals with High-value datasets focusing on their use "able to provide important benefits for society, the environment and the economy. Additionally, as hinted by their name, they are especially valuable when it comes to creating value-added services, applications and, more generally, high-quality jobs for society".

Below a list of 6 thematic categories including High-value datasets:

1. Geospatial Data

2. Earth observation and Environment Data

3. Meteorological Data

4. Statistics Data

5. Company and companies ownership Data

6. Mobility Data

Geospatial Data is the one that directly involves the IGMI

Following the adoption of the Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/138, the high-value data sets have been created for each thematic category, as well as the related publication and re-use methods. For geospatial data, see the following sets:

• Administrative units

• Geographic names

• Addresses

• Edifici

• Building and Cadastral parcels

• Reference parcels

• Agricultural parcels

According to the Regulation 2023/138, and the Guidelines containing technical rules for the opening of data and the re-use of public sector information, the Agency for Digital Italy (AgID) has published the Operational Guide on High-value data sets (version 1.0 of December 2023) aiming at “providing the administrations owning high-value data sets with operational and more detailed indications for a better implementation of the Regulation itself and, therefore, supporting them during the process of opening and reusing such a particular type of data."

As for the Operational Guide, the Italian Military Geographic Institute (IGM) is responsible for geospatial data sets concerning  national geographic names and administrative units purely for land boundaries. The Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) is instead charged for managing the administrative subdivision of the national territory, for example municipalities, provinces and regions.

Since these data adhere to the INSPIRE Directive (Directive 2007/2/EC), they must follow all the relevant implementing regulations (Regulation (EC) 976/2009 and Regulation (EU) 1088/2010) concerning the quality and characteristics of the services through which they can be released.

According to the current legislation, IGM has therefore created the following web services:

• A Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) for displaying the two data series using georeferenced tile maps.

• A Web Feature Service (WFS) for consulting and downloading data on the geographic names of Italy and for consulting and downloading data on national land boundaries.

It is also possible to download data in the Geopackage format, for the territorial data and in the Atom format, for the Feed service, via the following links:

• national land boundaries:

  • Geopackage: https://www.igmi.org/porta-magna/predef/administrativeboundary.gpkg

  • Meta data: https://www.igmi.org/porta-magna/meta/data_au.xml

• Geographic names:

  • Geopackage: https://www.igmi.org/porta-magna/predef/geonames.gpkg

  • Meta data: https://www.igmi.org/porta-magna/meta/data_gn.xml

IGM is not responsible for any type of direct, indirect or accidental damage resulting from the use of the information collected through the aforementioned services.

As IGM is the data holder, users are kindly reminded that the source must be mentioned whenever managed.