URISA Conference Proceedings

The following articles appear in the 1998 URISA conference proceedings.

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A Change Detection Model for Evaluating Access to Public Health Services   View Paper [PDF]

A Comprehensive GIS Data System for Public Participation in Regional Planning in NC   View Paper [PDF]

A Consortium Approach to Framework Data Development: The North Texas GIS Consortium Example

A Knowledge Based GIS Inventory of Potential Brownfield Supplies   View Paper [PDF]

A Model for the Financial Analysis of GIS   View Paper [PDF]

A Municipal/County Clearinghouse Prototype in NC: Metadata, NC Public Records Law, and a Web How-To   View Paper [PDF]

A Panel Discussion of Communities Sharing Geographic Data   View Paper [PDF]

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: The Use of Color Digital Orthophotography in Geographic Info

A Spatial Decision Support System for Projecting Land Use in Las Vegas Valley

A Successful Municipal GIS with a Staff of Two   View Paper [PDF]

A Uniform System for Indexing Land Records in North Carolina

Adaptive Agent Based Simulation Models in Urban and Regional Planning and Policy Development

Aiken Area Council on Aging, a Non-Profit Organization Uses GIS to Improve CommunityPrograms and Services   View Paper [PDF]

Airborne GPS Digital Aerial Photo Triangulation

An Integrated Urban Systems Model with GIS

Applying GIS and digital Orthophotography For Santitary Surveys

Applying the Zachman Framework to Develop a Simple Model for Enterprise Data in a Sewer Services Org   View Paper [PDF]

Automating Subdivision Maintenance Using Auto CAD and ArcStrom

Automation Process for Developing Vital Health Information at Census Tract Level   View Paper [PDF]

Best Practices in GIS Implementation and Management

Board of Elections Geographic Information System   View Paper [PDF]

Boundary Development on The Outer Continenetal Shelf   View Paper [PDF]

Building a Statewide Framework of Roads - a Progress Report

Cadastral Data Conversion: A Case Study Mecklenburg County   View Paper [PDF]

Cadastral Data Management in the World of Open Systems

Can the Wireless Boom Help Fund Urban and Regional Information Systems Needs?   View Paper [PDF]

CD-ROM Based Distribution of Horizontal & Vertical Control Information   View Paper [PDF]

Census 2000 Proposed Products and Dissemination Plans

Charlotte – Mecklenburg School District Student Attendance Zones

City of Greensboro, NC Display Maps   View Paper [PDF]

Collecting Data at The Speed of Sound (Voice to Data)

Commerce Enabling and Marketing Spatial Database Assets

Community GIS Data Base Development -- Lessons Learned   View Paper [PDF]

Community Information Networks: What’s Happening in Selected Cities

Community Visioning with IT and GIS in Harlem and The South Bronx   View Paper [PDF]

Completing the Vision: Public Access to the Provincial land Info infrastructure

Component Based Software Development - A Case Study   View Paper [PDF]

Copyright Records acts of Legal & non legal information

Data Sharing using Internet GIS: Is what you see what it means

Determining Environmental Loads Using a Geographic Information System   View Paper [PDF]

Developing Greater Professionalism in GIS Project Management   View Paper [PDF]

Developing the Right Fit: A Recursive Shaping of a Multi-Participant GIS   View Paper [PDF]

Development of Geographic Information Systems for Planning Sustainable Urban Living Environments   View Paper [PDF]

Digital Orthophotography in New York City   View Paper [PDF]

Dynamics of IS/GIS Market in the Age of Globalization: An International Technical Assistance Project

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM

Effect of a New Dispatching Software on Driver Productivity in a Courie   View Paper [PDF]

Electronic Commerce & Productivity: A Microanalysis   View Paper [PDF]

Emerging Technologies for Mapping and GIS Data Development

Evolution of a Municipal Landbase from Layers to Objects   View Paper [PDF]

Expanding Enterprise GIS Into a Multi Government System   View Paper [PDF]

Field Uses of Spatial Data

Fire Fighting Information Management: A Fire Chief’s Dream

Fitness for use: Reducing the impact of geographic information uncertainty   View Paper [PDF]

Funding GIS Through 911

Generating Savings by Using a Transportation Model to Validate Employee Wages   View Paper [PDF]

Generating Sewer Alternatives based on GIS and Simulation Techniquein a Planning Support System   View Paper [PDF]

GEO-SPATIAL Technologies in New Jersey: Parcel Mapping Problems and Solutions in the Suburb

Geographic Information Coordination in North Carolina: A Policy Perspective

Geoprocessing with Java

Georgia’s Regional Development Information System, Part I: Technology Challenges   View Paper [PDF]

Georgia’s Regional Development Information System, Part II: Managing the Technology   View Paper [PDF]

GIS and Economic Development: A Match Made in Heaven?

GIS and Industrial Location: A Prototypic Application in a South American Developing Country   View Paper [PDF]

GIS and Small Local Government - Delivering Useable Product   View Paper [PDF]

GIS Enhancing North Carolina Teacher Professional Development in Environmental Education

GIS Impact: Review of Evaluation Methods and Empirical Evidence   View Paper [PDF]

GIS In High School Redristricting and School Choice

GIS Management: A Small Town Dilemma   View Paper [PDF]

GIS Modeling for Proactive Floodplain Management

GIS Starter Kit Enhances Local Decision Making

GIS-Based Assessment of Timber Harvest’s Visual Impacts in the Biltmore Estate, North Carolina   View Paper [PDF]

GIS-Based Decision Making for Road Network   View Paper [PDF]

GIS-Technologies Administration

GPS Aided Pin-point Aerial Photography

GPS Leveling Procedures and Georeferencing GIS

Hazards Information for Local Planning and Coastal Managent: NOAA Coastal Services Center   View Paper [PDF]

High School Students Using GIS to Present Deep River Water Quality Data

How Can We Be Sure?: On Evaluating the Competency of the GIS Professional

How do I get this data to match? Which data set is correct? Will any of it be accurate

Image Maps: A modern solution for outdated information

Integrating Document Management, Workflow, & GIS to support land use permitting in the NYS Adirondac

Integrating Fire Operations with IT and GIS: City of Winston-Salem Integrated Network Fire Operations (INFO) Overview   View Paper [PDF]

Integrating Fire Operations with IT and GIS: GIS Component to Support E911 Routing in Fire Apparatus   View Paper [PDF]

Integrating Fire Operations with IT and GIS: Imaging Component to Support Digital Pre-Fire Surveys in Fire Apparatus   View Paper [PDF]

Internet Access to Topographic Data   View Paper [PDF]

Internet/Intranet GIS Application

Intertribal GIS Council (IGC)

Is it GIS -- or the Operating System?

IT/GIS as a Casual Component of the Work of Neighborhood Based Orgs: Have We Realized the Vision?

Land Use Trend Analysis for Traffic Analysis Zones Using Parcel Data: The Wake County, NC Experience

LandView III and Community 2020 - Steps Toward the National Spatial Data Infrastructure

Large Meter Scheduled Maintenance Program - Computers Don’t Forget the Dates

Leveraging the IT Glass House 'Through a Spatial DB Server'

Managing Land Records for the Assessor

Managing System Implementation to Achieve Benefits   View Paper [PDF]

Mapping Point Specific Data

Maps and More from Census 2000: Geographic Products from the 2000 Decennial Census

MBHP: A Case Study on the use of IT in a Boston Community Based Organization

Mecklenburg County , NC GIS Real Estate System   View Paper [PDF]

Military Base Planning using GPS and 3-D Modeling   View Paper [PDF]

Modeling To Predict Stromwater Runoff in Withers Swash Myrtle Beach, South Carolina   View Paper [PDF]

National Digital Orthophoto Program Nears Completion of Orthoimagery Framework Layer

National Shoreline Data Standard: Background, need, & Recommendations   View Paper [PDF]

NBII: Biological Data Documentation and Discovery

North Carolina and The NSDI: Clearing house and Framework Intitiatives with Local Government

North Carolina Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety Study   View Paper [PDF]

NSDI Framework Transportation Data for Moore County, NC: A Project Report   View Paper [PDF]

Oakland County Enterprise GIS Implementation: A Unique Approach

Parcel Mapping in New Jersey: Toward a Coordinated Statewide Approach

Partnerships for Change: Getting the Lead Out of Neighborhoods

Pavement Management Systems Using Geographic Information Systems   View Paper [PDF]

Pen-Based Data Collection for Today’s Storm Water Management

Planning for The Eberly Western NC Housing Partnership

Planning Globally, Acting Privately: Privacy in the global information economy   View Paper [PDF]

Plotting Elections: Electoral Distribution and Mapping System   View Paper [PDF]

Preparing to Use Springfield’s Data

Procedures for Utilizing GIS Spatial Analytical Tools to Locate a Hospital in Rural South Carolina   View Paper [PDF]

Proving the worth of GIS in Local Government   View Paper [PDF]

Public Access Can SAVE You Money: A Plus for Your Citizens and Your Country

Public Land Ownership and the NSDI Framework in North Carolina   View Paper [PDF]

Public Works Director of the 21st Century   View Paper [PDF]

Re-engineering Public Land Administration in British Columbia: A Private/Public Sector Partnership

Reach Out to The Public With a GIS Enabled Community Network   View Paper [PDF]

Real-time GIS & Travel Model-based Traffic Route Control for Incident & Emergency Management

Regional Cooperation via an Economic Development Information System (EDIS)   View Paper [PDF]

Remaking PAgis   View Paper [PDF]

Reviewing Your Address List for the 2000 Census: Experiences and Strategies from the 1998 Census Dress Rehearsal   View Paper [PDF]

Risk Management Assesment within Crash Reconstruction Analyses

Salt Lake City's Communication and Information Resource Center: A Municipal Data Provider

Saving Time, Lives, and Money with GIS

Serving the Public: The New Brunswick Land Gazette   View Paper [PDF]

Smart Places for Community Modeling and Predictive Planning   View Paper [PDF]

Somewhere over the Rainbow: Why Benefits Matter

South Carolina’s Addressing & Geocoding Project Partnership with Local Government   View Paper [PDF]

South Carolinia’s TIGER/LINE Update System Contributes to Census 2000

Starting Over? Software Conversion in a Multi-Participant Country-Wide GIS

Statewide Authoritative Railroad And Highway Crossing Database (SARAH)

Storm Water Infrastructure Inventory and GIS Database Design   View Paper [PDF]

Strategies for Monitoring Growth: Can GIS Help?

StratMap: The Texas Strategic Mapping Initiative

Taking a Snapshot of the Nation: The NSGIC/FGDC National Framework Data Survey

Tax Mapping as a Component of Enterprise GIS   View Paper [PDF]

Testing GIS Interoperability for Handling Framework Data

The Aftermath of Creating a Master Address file: Reconciling Legacy Database & Dvlp Real Time App

The Census Data Access and Dissemination System: From Plans to Reality   View Paper [PDF]

The Development of GEUs: A Spatial DBMS Tightly Integrated with an Object-Relational   View Paper [PDF]

The Fort Lauderdale Enterprise GIS: Synthesis of Appropriate Organizational Concepts   View Paper [PDF]

The Four Stages of Water/Sewer GIS Development

The Future of GIS Landbases- Is Owning One a Thing of The Past?   View Paper [PDF]

The Global Spatial Data Infrastructure

The Hub and Spokes Approach

The Internet and The Decision making process   View Paper [PDF]

The Nassau County Spatial Data Warehouse - A System Integration Challenge   View Paper [PDF]

The North American Regional Geographic Information Sharing Demonstration: A Technology Demostration

The North Carolina GIS Environmental Education Consortium   View Paper [PDF]

The Spatial variation of Commuting time in a US metropolitan area   View Paper [PDF]

Trends in GIS for National Environmental Policy Act Analysis Requirements

Tying GIS to the Army’s HQ Facilities Inventory Executive Information System

Use of GIS to Develop Digital Flood Plain Database for the State of Georgia   View Paper [PDF]

Use of Immunization Data and Automated Mapping Techniques to Target Public Health Outreach Programs

Using Advanced Raster GIS Techniques to Enhance Subbasin Delineation for Water Quality/Quantity Mode   View Paper [PDF]

Using GIS to Study Environmental Sustainability In The Beaver Valley, Canada

What Does it Take to be a GIS Professional?: Exploring the Skills Required in the GIS Profession

What’s a GSDI (Global Spatial Data Infrastructure) For?



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