The AMP’s Green Map gathers environmental information, collecting, organizing and standardizing local and regional geographical data that was diffuse, but for juridical and managerial reasons should be integrated in the AMP’s infrastructure of geographical data.

It serves as a support tool to the prosecution of the AMP’s liabilities, namely in what refers to the dialogue between municipalities and central administration services in the fields of regional planning, nature conservation and natural resources.

The centralization of this kind of geographical information has three major goals:

1. To provide the AMP with a tool for territorial analysis supporting metropolitan studies and projects;

   
   

2. To make georeferenced information on the major natural values and resources within the AMP available to citizens;

   
   

3. To encourage municipalities to share and spread territorial information, thus enhancing dialogue and strategy negotiation as far as territorial development is concerned.

The geographical information included in the AMP’s Green Map falls within the scope of “Environment and Natural Resources” and it was organized through a set of seven themes that will constitute the structure of the repository of geographical information:

• Basic Geographical Information;

  
  

• Physical Environment;

  
  

• Nature Conservation and Protection;

  
  

• Regional Planning;

  
  

• Land Use;

  
  

• Green Infrastructure;

  
  

• Forest.

The AMP’s Green Map also contributes to the compliance with the INSPIRE Directive (Directive no. 2007/2/CE), establishing the Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community for European environmental policies purposes. It will feed the AMP’s Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), which in turn, combined with the national geographical information infrastructure (SNIG - Sistema Nacional de Informação Geográfica) and with other regional and local infrastructures, will contribute to the fulfilment of the Portuguese State’s obligations as far as storage, availability and maintenance of geographical data are concerned.

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