Cartography & Geographic Information Systems articles from April 1998

Cartography & Geographic Information Systems archives from April 1998

The Evolution of Public Participation GIS
April 1, 1998... Geographic information systems (GIS) have become part of the mainstream. From their early days as an expensive custom-built luxury they have been tweaked and prodded until they are now off-the-shelf necessities for all manner of public and...

Empowerment, Marginalization, and "Community-Integrated" GIS
April 1, 1998... ABSTRACT: The "GIS and Society" literature has raised a number of critical issues concerning the political economy and epistemology of geographical information systems (GIS) and the politics and power relations associated with their use....

GIS and Community-Based Planning: Exploring the Diversity of Neighborhood Perspectives and Needs
April 1, 1998... ABSTRACT: The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, using a participatory research design, it attempts to contribute to a better understanding of the problems neighborhood groups face in accessing and using GIS-based data sources and...

Multimedia GIS for Planning Support and Public Discourse
April 1, 1998... ABSTRACT: This article describes innovative ways in which spatial information is conveyed by multimedia GIS to support public discourse in a city planning environment. We explore how GIS results can be manipulated to allow additional analysis by...

How and Why Community Groups Use Maps and Geographic Information
April 1, 1998... Introduction Strong neighborhoods make healthy cities. The obvious questions, then, are what makes strong neighborhoods and what can be done to build that strength? People who have access to GIS (geographic information systems) have come to...

Public Participation GIS-Barriers to Implementation
April 1, 1998... ABSTRACT: Although GIS technology has become an important decision-support tool in many private and public organizations, its potential as a resource in local public policy debates has yet to be realized. Creating a supportive climate for public...

The Global Positioning System and GIS: An Introduction.(Review)
April 1, 1998... The Global Positioning System and GIS: An Introduction. Michael Kennedy. Ann Arbor Press, 121 S. Main St., Chelsea, Michigan. 1996. xxiii and 268 pp., 15 x 22 1/2 cm, figures, index, CD-ROM. Paperback $29.95. Anyone desiring to learn...

Recent Literature
April 1, 1998... ANIMATED CARTOGRAPHY Acevedo, W., and P. Masuoka. 1997. Time-series animation techniques for visualizing urban growth. Computers & Geosciences 23(4):423-35. Kraak, M.J., R. Edsall, and A.M. MacEachren. 1997. Kartografische animaties en...

Information Technologies, Advocacy, and Development: Resistance and Backlash to Industrial Shrimp Farming
April 1, 1998... Introduction While the overwhelming belief is that advanced information and communication technologies (ICT) will profoundly influence society, experts differ significantly about whether these impacts will be positive or negative (note 1)....

The Evolution of Public Participation GIS
April 1, 1998... Geographic information systems (GIS) have become part of the mainstream. From their early days as an expensive custom built luxury they have been tweaked and prodded until they are now off-the-shelf necessities for all manner of public and...