Research Catalog
Sharing geographic information
- Title
- Sharing geographic information / edited by Harlan J. Onsrud and Gerard Rushton.
- Publication
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Center for Urban Policy Research, ©1995.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | G70.2 .S54 1995 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xviii, 510 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Developments in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are changing land-use decision making in profound ways. Access to data on land and its uses is essential to a wide range of planning functions, both public and private. But data collection and maintenance are difficult and expensive. The potential for sharing information within and among organizations makes GIS technology accessible to planners, analysts, and policymakers. This volume consists primarily of papers prepared for a specialist meeting on "Institutions Sharing Geographic Information" hosted by the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis in February 1992. Authors include leading academics in organization theory, management information systems, and GIS as well as practitioners from federal, state, regional, and local governments, GIS software developers, consultants, and spatial data suppliers.
- Contributors describe and analyze their past experiencesboth successful and unsuccessful - in sharing geographic data. They identify opportunities, options, and potential pitfalls for organizations as well as for individuals and recommend strategies and models for improved information sharing.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- geographic information systems.
- Geographic information systems.
- Systèmes d'information géographique.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Distributed GIS: if its time is now, why is it resisted? -- Dynamics of inter-organizational geographic data sharing: a conceptual framework for research -- Sharing geographic information across organizational boundaries: a research framework -- Taxonomy of spatial data sharing -- A proposed structure for observing data sharing -- Why we can't share data: institutional inertia -- Sharing geographic information among local government agencies in the San Diego Region -- Reducing inter-organizational conflict to facilitate sharing geographic information -- Systems integration: a reason and a means for data sharing -- Overarching bodies for coordinating geographic data sharing at three levels of government -- The evolution of geographic information systems and spatial data-sharing activities in California state government -- Computers and horizontal information sharing in the public sector -- Information sharing: the effects of GIS on British local government -- Problems in public access policy for GIS databases: an economic perspective -- Comments on the economics of geographic information and data access in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts -- The role of law in impeding and facilitating the sharing of geographic information -- Control of public information -- Libraries as institutions for sharing -- Public data access: another side of GIS data sharing -- Facilitating the sharing of spatial data: perspectives from the Mapping Science Committee -- Coordination of surveying, mapping, and related spatial data activities -- Sharing street centerline spatial databases -- Development and maintenance of the TIGER database: experiences in spatial data sharing at the U.S. Bureau of the Census -- GIS and the integrated highway information system -- Sharing imperfect data -- A multi-agency management structure to facilitate the sharing of geographic data in Florida -- Sharing spatial information in an imperfect world: interactions between technical and organizational issues -- Sharing spatial data among social scientists -- Sharing spatial data among physical scientists.
- ISBN
- 0882851527
- 9780882851525
- LCCN
- 94019192
- OCLC
- ocm30510157
- 30510157
- SCSB-2064770
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- Princeton University Library