URISA Conference Proceedings

The following articles appear in the 1991 URISA conference proceedings.

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A hypermedia implementation of a collaborative planning system

A knowledge-based approach to using existing data for seismic risk assessment

A pragmatic GIS database design to facilitate economic development in Jefferson County, Texas

A step-by-step approach to organizing and executing a benchmark in a multi-participant GIS: Gwinnett County's experience

Accomplishing an uniterrupted transition and phase-in of a new GIS: issues, concerns, and strategy

Addressing organizational impacts affected by the transition from a centralized GIS to a distributed GIS

An application of expert systems in local government analysis of applications for construction permits

An application of GIS in the risk assessment of aquifer contamination from hazardous materials transporter spills

An exercise in strategic planning: development of data policy in the Information Age

An international survey of land record costs, revenues, and some characteristics

An open and computerised land register--a reality today with possibilities for tomorrow

Analyzing rural development policies using a geographic information system

Applying an expert system methodology for solid waste landfill site selection

Applying GIS to the delivery of public safety warnings

Assess employee GIS perceptions early--a simple, radical, and cheap approach to addressing management issues

Automated GIS data conversion

Benchmarks: the management perspective

California's new Seismic Hazards Mapping Act: implications for technology and policy

COGO and control: achieving base map accuracy in the American West

Consensus group methodology

Development of the Utah State Geographic Information Database

Distributed processing pilot: integrating spatial and textual data residing on multiple platforms

Economic Resource Information Center (ERIC): a 12-county regional GIS

Effective cost control in the conversion process

Empowering local land use planning officials through use of land information system technology

Empty promises for small area data: monitoring our neighborhoods using operational records

Ensuring long-term viability of a county-wide GIS network through interlocal agreements

Evaluating and implementing conversion alternatives

Evaluation of Bay Area Spatial Information System (BASIS) following the Loma Prieta earthquake

Expanding GIS functionality using DBMS tools: a network analysis prototype based on SQL

Feasibility and application of GIS linked with economic models for natural resource policy in Australia

Fishing for solutions: regional and local government entities cooperate toward management/development solution

Geographic information systems in traffic control

Geographic information systems--evolutionizing the comprehensive planning process

Geographic knowledge structures for harbor management

GIS and information technology in the Third World

Global warming and geographic information: an assessment

How to found, establish, and implement a multi-participant public/private user group that works

Implementation of planning data by using the geographic information system (GIS)--special projects

Improved management and analysis of industrial air emissions using a geographic information system

Inching towards object orientation--let your dictionaries do the driving

Information infrastructure for economic development: a unique state and university partnership for GIS implementation

Informational privacy and GIS

Integrating microcomputer based GIS with a pavement management system

Integration of programming models and expert systems: an application to facility management and planning

Interpreting the 'IS' in 'GIS'

La aplicacion del SISTEMA DE ANALISE GEOAMBIENTAL (SAGA) en la determinacion de riesgos de deslizamientos

Legislation for the creation of a State Geographic Information Database in Utah

Linking CAD to PC databases: a low-cost approach to implementing a geographic information system

Linking disparate data sources in a large organization's GIS

MassGIS: a case study of the Massachusetts environmental/geographic information system

Maximizing the value of information in urban policy-making

Menu, mouse, or touch?

Milepoints: a GIS index for public works and public safety applications

Modeling earthquake casualties for planning and response model definition and user output requirements

Open records law, GIS, and copyright protection: life after Feist

Promoting a mature multi-jurisdictional GIS

Prototype knowledge-based model for matching non-graphic road inventory files with existing digital cartographic databases

Prototype rule-based decision support system using data from remote sensors

Public awareness forming a consortium that works

Public participation models for 'selling the boss' on GIS

Public/private partnerships in street centerline GIS

Reaching for consensus in public information access policies

Real-time control of the transportation of hazardous materials

Replacement/maintenance priorities for gas distribution systems

Role of geographic information system technology in pavement management at city and county levels

Rural town geographic information systems: issues in integration

Saving the past for the future: GIS in archaeology

Scanning for GIS data conversion: perils, pitfalls, and potentials

Siting emergency response teams for hazardous materials transportation incidents: exploring multi-objective investment strategies

Some indicators to measure the impact of land information systems in decision making

Standardizing transit applications of GIS technology: a corridor study example

Suitability analysis and environmental impact modeling with geographic information systems

Taking stock: the applicability of street centerline files to GIS in the 1990s

The 'allot' model: a PC-based approach to demand distribution for siting and planning

The eye of the storm: GIS and the hurricane business

The GIS grid system as a tool for small area urban and regional analysis

The GIS profession

The maintenance of street network files for urban planning and management

The role of GIS in organizational goal attainment

The role of systems integration in addressing local government's land information needs

Three-dimensional modeling of an image-based geographic information system for land use planning

Transparent access to geographically related data from heterogenous networked systems

Upper Midwest trade center patterns: 1960 and 1989

Using property parcel data for analysis of impact on floodplains



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