Maria Antonia Brovelli
Professor
Polytechnic University of Milan
Italy

Biography
Degree with honors in Physics, PhD in Geodesy and Cartography. From 2001 to 2011 Head of the Geomatics Laboratory of the Politecnico di Milano. From 2006 to 2011 lecturer of GIS at the ETH – Zurich. Professor of GIS and Web Geoservices at Politecnico di Milano. Since 2011 Vice Rector for the Como Campus. Co-chair of ISPRS WG IV/5 ""Web and Cloud Based Geospatial Services and Applications”; Charter Member of OSGeo; Member of the Advisory Board of ICA-OSGeo Labs Network (GeoForAll) and the Italian SIFET, Co-organizer of the NASA WW Europe Challenge; Conference chair of FOSS4G Europe 2015.

Abstract
Open Geospatial Data and Technologies for Eliciting Slow and Smart Tourism: The Via Regina Case

Co-Authors:
Marco Minghini, Dr., Politecnico di Milano
Giorgio Zamboni, Dr., GIS and Mapping Services - Municipality of Como

Slow tourism is a modality of enjoying the territory respecting it. Public transportations, hiking, biking and riding horses are the ways chosen for moving. This pace gives travelers the possibility to deepen the knowledge of the landscape and of the local culture (lifestyle of the people in those geographical areas, their history, art, architecture, religion, cuisine). On the side of residents, this brings to the creation of new opportunities for small enterprises and to a conscious and respectful development of the territory. The European Union has been emphasizing the concepts and practices of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth based on the valorization of human, relational and social capital together with the preservation of the environment and obtained by exploiting ICT. The spreading of smart technologies is giving birth to an innovative vision of tourism supported by the digital models of the Earth and oriented towards simplifying and at the same time enriching the travelers' experience. Needless to say that geospatial data and tools play a crucial role in this context. Geospatial technologies enable a new way of travelling as 'tourists2.0' for whom the travelling experience can be enhanced by the information and entertainment available, also in term of virtual reality, but at the same time customized for meeting their requirements and enriched by volunteered and crowdsourced multimedia data. The customization can be overcame starting from the two pillars of openness and interoperability. Together the available authoritative and citizens' geospatial data infrastructures can be the backbone for building up these tourist systems, concentrating on the layers and functionalities that specifically refer to this use case. As in the past, the reading of the maps constitutes a fundamental step in the creation of the travelers' itinerary. Besides the traditional 2D tools for the visualization, intelligent virtual globes are provided for increasing the users' immersivity. Open source geospatial solutions have proven to be completely suitable for such an implementation. In the paper the example of Via Regina (Interreg project related to the crossborder region between Italy and Switzerland) is presented.