Since 1996 Pierce County has utilized an ArcView application, called CountyView, as the county's enterprise GIS. After six years of use the application continues to draw more and more users, most of them grateful to be able to access the system from their desktop. This paper will attempt to describe what has made CountyView a successful enterprise GIS and categorize the elements needed in creat...

A Slum expansion due to urbanization presents significant challenges for human health and wellbeing. We outline here key dimensions of the consideration, pointing to areas where public participation can make a particularly strong contribution. We argue for enquiry that considers multifaceted progressions operating at various geographical scales, linking arguments about ‘global health’ with the ...

Social frictions in major infrastructural projects are the motivation for the presented framework for the technical implementation of public participation in spatial planning processes. Although regulated by law, these spatial planning processes are often accused of disregarding the wishes and sensitivities of citizens. At the same time, this raises the question, how extensively classical forms...

Although the first censuses were the only practical means of surveying a nation’s population, the development of sample survey methodologies means censuses are increasingly justified by the specifically geographical detail they uniquely provide. The same is arguably true of historical census studies: a two per cent sample taken from many millions is quite sufficient to study national class or h...

The study of spatial relationships has been one of the most active areas in GIS research over the past twenty years. Many formal models have been proposed for the definition of topological or cardinal relationships. However, these approaches often consider space as a static continuum which does not integrate the temporal dimension. Recent progress in spatio-temporal GIS research attempts to ext...

The aim of this study was to establish a preferred methodology for updating of the spatial database and monitoring the changes of a settlement in Tanzania. In summary, change detection problems can be viewed as the consequence of an increased desire for up-to-date information about the development and changes in a GIS environment to guide urban planners, urban decision-makers, and managers. Two...

Recent attempts to integrate geographic information systems (GIS) and participatory techniques, have given rise to terminologies such as participatory GIS and community-integrated GIS. Although GIS was initially developed for physical geographic application, it can be used for the management and analysis of health and health care data. Geographic information systems, combined with participatory...

The Nasca lines or geoglyphs in southern Peru are known as one of archaeology's greatest mysteries. Since the 1980s, however, new approaches have helped to better understand their function and meaning. The recent photogrammetric recording of 1 500 geoglyphs in the vicinity ofPalpa enabled for the first time a GIS-based analysis. Geoglyph visibility is one of their most discussed traits. While m...

Following a comprehensive literature review, this paper looks at analysis of geohazard using remote sensing information. This paper compares the basic types and methods of change detection, explores the basic principle of common methods and makes an respective analysis of the characteristics and shortcomings of the commonly used methods in the application of geohazard. Using the earthquake in J...

To study the relationship between deep groundwater productivity and lineament, we use several lineament maps which are lineament map, lineament length density map, lineament cross-point density map and others from Remote Sensing. The avenue script files for calculating the lineament statistics, the lineament length density, lineament cross-point density value and the distance between a groundwa...