The GIS for the Forma Italiae Projec. From the GIS of the Ager Venusinus Project to the GIS of the Ager Lucerinus Project. Evolution of the system

This paper presents the archaeolocical Map of italy- Forma italiae" project, comprisiing to date the Ager Venusinus project (completed) and the Ager lucerinus project (ongoing). The idea of an Archaeologica Map of Italy dates back to 1889. Many decades later, with the advent of information technology and satellite observing system"new era" of archaeological mapping began and the "Forma Italiae",thank to these technological developments, began to develop the first Territorial Information System of archaeological mattere in Italy. This project, rapresents one the first applications of both GIS and GPS in archeology. It was one of the first work with GPS. Betwenn 1989 and 1992, studies and experiments were carried out on automatic systems for the acquisition, calculation and management of archaeological data relating to carta archeologica d'italia. Currently we use GPS for all archaeological sites It is important to keep in mind that in the GIS all archaeological elements, both monumental and structural as well as scatter of material on the surface are georeferenced their shapes ad sizes perfectly represented. The corrent application of most advanced technologies enabled a precise referencing for each of these , along with a rapid creation of thematic cartographies. It is our hope that the data archive of this project may serve as a learning foundation and a strting basis for all those who work in the area and that it way contribute towords a greater efficiency of the preventive arhcaeology tools. For this purpose a computerized system for data management was used composed of a GIS platform associated wich an alphanumeric archive and designed soon to become a webGIS