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URISA
PROCEEDINGSPapers from the annual conference
of the
URBAN AND REGIONAL
INFORMATION SYSTEMS ASSOCIATION
August 21 - August 25,1999
Chicago, Illinois
Editor
Mark X Sailing, Ph.D.
The Urban Center
Levin College ofUrban Affairs
Cleveland State UniversityCleveland, Ohio
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Table of Contents
PROCEEDINGS EDITORIAL BOARD, CONFERENCE COMMITTEE,AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS 3
PREFACE 4
HORWOOD CRITIQUE PRIZE 5
Abstracts
CENSUS 2000
The 2001 Canadian Census 22
Geographic Products in the Age of the Internet 22
City of Chicago, Census 2000 23
Evaluating New Tiger/Line® File Releases 23Census 2000: What's Happening and Why Should I Care? 23
The American Community Survey: Timely Data for Solving Regional and CommunityProblems 24
Assessing Data from Census 2000 24
COMMUNITY IT APPLICATIONS
Using GIS for Modeling Urban Service Demand 25
The Study of Local Sustainable Development 25
Where's the Power in Empowerment? Case Studies ofIT Adoption and Use byCommunity-Based Organizations 26
Building an Urban Information System in Yoff, Senegal (West Africa) 26GIS and Megan's Law: A Practical Application of GIS Technology 26
Utilizing a GIS and the Internet for a Tutor/Mentory Agency and OtherNon-Profits 27
Utilizing IT to "Make the Right Choice" in Juvenile Crime Prevention 27
Development of a Decision Support Systems for the Public Participation inDecision Making in Spatial Planning 27GIS on Main Street: A GIS for the Algiers Main Street Program 28Sustainable Community Planning: Exploring the Role ofInformation Technology 28
Advancement in Neighborhood Planning and Technology 29
Enterprise GIS - The Potential and Limitations in Community Health GIS Applications 29Multimedia GIS Applications for Neighborhood Planning and Design: The Case ofPilsen, Chicago 29
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Spaces of Dependence and Engagement: Empowering Neighborhoods with GIS 30
DATABASE DESIGN AND MAINTENANCE
Understanding Map Accuracy Standards and the New National Standard for Spatial DataAccuracy 30Detection and Adjustment of Inconsistencies in a Multi-Layer Spatial Representation 31
Intelligent Multi-faced (Block Faces) Polygons 31New Tools for Reporting Spatial Data Quality: Moving from Academic Concepts to
Practical Reality 31To Compress or Not to Compress Illustrations of the Latest Compression Technology 32
On the Road to Geocodes - Building County E-911 Databases 32
Getting Started with Public Domain Data 32The Municipal Data Model 33
Privacy and Public Access to Government Geographic Information in the Electronic Age 33An Open GIS - Oriented Data Model for an Austrian GIS-T 33
The Impact of Data Quality on Benefits of Parcel Automation in Wisconsin
Local Government 34Base Mapping-I'd Rather be a User 34
Tin Random Densification: A Process to Minimize the Ridging Phenomenon in DTMs 35
Positioning Accuracy Using the National CORS System 35
Lake Forest, Illinois Approach to Creating and Integrating Digital Ortho and DigitalTerrain Databases Into a City-Wide GIS 36
Issues in Integrating Local Government Land Records for Regional Scale Analysis 36
Registering Spatial Features Using Object-Oriented Data Models 37
Digital Orthophotography Challenges of Central Business Districts of Large Cities 37
Issues in GIS Data Maintenance 37
New York City: Building its First Photogrammetric Landbase 38
A Methodology for Digital Elevation Model (DEM) Uncertainty Evaluation: The Effect
DEM Uncertainty on Topographic Parameters 38
An Object-Oriented Database Approach for Urban Warfare 39
Digital Aerial Imagery: Benefits ofLow-Cost Techniques in Urban Developmentand Planning 39
Raster Image and Warping for Geometric Correction of Cartographic Bases 39
Real Time Geocoding Improves Trip Diary Survey Data 40
A Spatial Internet Platform for Delivering High-End Government Information Services 40
Producing a State-Wide High Resolution Satellite Data Mosaic and Using the Data in jPlanning Processes 41 <
A Reliability of Spatial Objects in a 3D GIS 41
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND IT/GIS
Defining the New Regional Economy: Why the Old Way Had to Go 41
GIS and Urban Models: Cooperation Through the Division of Labor. 42
How to Succeed at Enterprise Wide Desktop GIS 42
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Revitalizing the GIS Initiative at the City of Calgary 42
Map Coordinates to Find Training Opportunities 43
Designing and Building Urban Models in New Jersey 43
Welfare Reform and Access to Jobs: Closing the Transit Gap in Metropolitan
Chicago 43
Regional Economic Development and GIS 44
Expanding Enterprise GIS into Regional GIS 44
Food Access Chicago: Finding and Filling the Food Gaps for Households in Cook
County Low Income Neighborhoods 44
Modeling Neighborhood Economic Transformation in Central Cities 45
A GIS Based Business Analysis Center - Regional Economic DevelopmentSupport the Goes Beyond the Basics 45
Modeling and Forecast of the Wake County Socio-Economic Parameters
Until the Year 2025 45
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
Employing Imagery in Disaster Management 46
Collaborative GIS Disaster Preparation/Response Project 46
An Internet - Based Flood Warning System 46
Development of Ambulance Squad Response Zones in Buck County, PennsylvaniaUsing Technology 47
Consensus Building Using Internet for Disaster Management 47
GIS in Earthquake Disaster Management, Damage Mitigation, and Post
Earthquake Reconstruction in Iran 48
ENTERPRISE GIS
Ensuring Successful Technology Transfer for a Large-Scale GIS 48
Enterprise GIS - A State Perspective 49
Moving GIS to the Mainstream: 3Tier Architecture and Enterprise Data Management 49
GIS Technologies Administration 49The Year 2000 Challenge for the City of Chicago 50
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
Geology Based Regional Environmental Information System in Northwest Hungary. 50
Effects of Agriculture Landuse on Groundwater Quality: A Remote Sensingand GIS Approach 51
Integrating Land Suitability with Landscape Diversity in Park Trail Planning 51GIS and Watershed Project Management 52
Assessing the Long-Term Hydraulic Impact ofUrban Sprawl - A Practical
Geographic Information System (GIS) Based Approach 52
Using GIS to Analyze U. S. Forest and Environment ofPre - European Settlements 52
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY/PUBLIC ACCESS/PRIVACY
Private Lives, Public Partnerships: Advances in Private Sector Privacy Protection 53Public Access Terminals: Privacy vs. Efficiency 53Software Licensing -New Opportunities for Government Agencies 54
Legal Issues in GIS/LIS 54Cost Recovery vs. Free Data Distribution 54
INTEGRATED INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Capture Data Using Speech Recognition and GPS 55
Achieving Successful Solutions Through Technology Integration 55
Integrated Voice to Data Application 56Practical Implementation of a Spatial Data Warehouse 56
Development of a Remote Sensing and GIS Data Infrastructure for the Public
Through Ohio View 57
Strategic Approaches to Community Safety Initiative (SACSI): A ProjectOverview 57SACSI: Data-Sharing: Legal, Ethical and Cultural Issues Associated with
a Multi-Agency GIS 58
Strategic Approaches to Community Safety Initiative: Technical and OperationalIssues for System Implementation 58
Mapping Temporal Land Use Change in the Chicago/Milwaukee Metropolitan Region. 58
Information Sharing: Modern Pieces ofthe Puzzle 59
Impervious Surfaces from Remote Sensing Data: Detroit Case Study 59
System Integration Success Stories - What Does it Take to Put it All Together 59
Integrated GPS Solutions: The Tax Assessor, E-911 and GIS 60
INTERNET USE AND POLICDIS
Using Java Technology to Facilitate Corporate GIS Access - City ofFredericton,New Brunswick 60
Interactive Access to Local Demographics 61
Providing GIS Services Over the Internet 61
Highland Park's GIS Intranet: Integration by Evolution 62
Online Self-Service Development Review Process - Combination of Online
GIS, Permit and Comment Management 62
Creating and Interactive Resource Database Using Map Objects on the Web 63A Web - Based Bus Information System 63
KEYNOTE
A Research Agenda for Community IT/GIS 64
Towards the Delivery of Spatial Multimedia Representations to SupportPublic Discourse 64
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LAND RECORDS, TENURE AND REGISTRATION
Tantalis - An Integrated Land Records Management System 64
Upgrading the Spatial Accuracy ofDigital Cadastral Databases 65
Designing and Building Land Registration Applications: Role of Model-Driven
Development and Business 66
Integrating Tax Cycle and CAMA Data 66
Monitoring the Status and Effectiveness of a State - Wide LIS Modernization 66
Public Land Survey -Derived Geographic Base Layers in the Midwest: Focus on
a Large-Scale Minnesota 67
Public - Private Partnerships for Land Records Modernization and Environmental
Projects 67
Land Registration Modernization in Developing Economies 68
Standardization of Survey Related Land Records Data 68
Title Registration Strategies - Successes and Failures 68
A Florida County Property Appraiser's Role in "Wildfires '98" 69
MANAGEMENT, INFORMATION, AND TECHNOLOGY
The Amalgamation of Information Technology in the New Mega-City of Toronto 69
Six Keys to Gaining Executive Commitment to GIS 69
GIS Certification: A Comparative Review of Overseas Developments 70
ACCENT-The Alliance of Cook County - City of Chicago GIS Enterprise 70
Establishing GIS Data Sharing In New York: The Great Compromise (CanIt Work For You?) 70
University Partnering for a GIS Needs Analysis 71
A Smarter Government: Deploying a Comprehensive Geography - Based
Government Information System 71
The Globe Program 72
The Three Leading Killers of GIS 73
GIS Mid-Life Crisis: Conducting a Mid-Project Evaluation 73
Developing and Implementation and Training Plan for a Smooth Transition
Between GIS Software Platforms 73
Connectivity and Data Sharing Between the City, the Appraisal District and 911 74
Yes, We Can Have GIS!: The City of Lubbock Planning Department Example 74
The Promise of Open GIS 74
Integrating the City of Chicago's Enterprise Data 75
Forum on Professional Roles for GIS Data Development 75
Planning, Development, Implementation and Various Side Bars for GIS, Part One 75
Planning, Development, Implementation and Various Side Bars for GIS, Part Two 75
Information Sharing: Modern Technology and Traditional Methods or
Getting There is NOT Halfthe Fun 76
Changing Chicago Government: Using Alternative Sourcing Strategies to
Drive Business Change 77
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PUBLIC WORKS AND FACILITIES MANAGEMENT
A GIS-Based Facility Management System for Highway Sign Planningand Maintenance 77Street Lighting Maintenance Using Object-Oriented GIS 78The Development ofMetra's Commuter Railroad GIS 78
Building-In Quality Into the Process: Quality Control of GPS - CollectedGas Facilities Data 79
In House Development of an Integrated Decision Support System 79GIS for Aviation Facilities Management 79
Facilities Management -A Case Study in Data Management and Informatioa 80The Houston Story : GIS Solution for City of Houston Department ofPublic Works and
Engineering 80
Vulnerability Assessment of Arkansas' Public Water Systems 81
Planning, Design and Operation/Maintenance of Water - Distribution and SewerNetworks in a Planning Support System 81
SPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURES
GIS Data Interoperability History and Future 81
Open GIS - A Roadmap to GeoSpatial Interoperability 82
Integrating Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) at Johnson City, Tennessee:GIS as the "Data Core" 82MAP-A Smart Partnership 82The Framework Data Survey: Past, Present, and Future 83
Ohio Geographically Referenced Information Program Metadata Pilot Project 83
Using GIS in the Multijurisdictional Planning of Diverse MetropolitanCommunities 84Advances in Transportation 84
Global Survey ofNational Spatial Data Infrastructure Activities 85
Redesigning a Local Roads FIS Database for Wisconsin: Design and Implementation 85
Making Metadata a Part of Your Daily Diet 86
Integrating GeoSpatial Data Infrastructure - The Canadian Experience 86
URBAN DESIGN AND MODELING
Community Planning and Simulation Project 87
GIS and Place Based Design 87
Quantifying Neighborhood Characteristics the Influences Trip Linking 87
Operational Urban Models: A Review and Evaluation 88
The What If? Planning Support System: Recent Developments 88
Use of Parcel Data in Developing and Analyzing Alternative Urban Scenarios
for Greater Wasatch 88
Modeling Change in Urban Boundaries -A Case Study of Beirut 89
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Monitoring Growth: Using GIS to Improve Metropolitan Services Provision 89
New Geographical Information for Understanding the Evolution Urban
Spatial Structure 90
An Information System for Urban Soundscape 90
Examining the Built Environment - Travel Behavior Relationships - An AnalyticalFramework 91
An Integrated Land Use - Transport Model for the Baltimore Metropolitan Area 91
Implementation of Metropolitan Land Use and Transportation Models 92
Commuter's Route Choices: A GIS Analysis of GPS Data 92
Land-Use Change Model Inventory and Evaluation 93
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Papers
CENSUS 2000
The 2001 Canadian Census 95
Robert Parenteau
Evaluating New Tiger/Line® File Releases 102
Michael Weaver
COMMUNITY IT APPLICATIONS
Where's the Power in Empowerment? Case Studies of IT Adoption and Use byCommunity-Based Organizations 109
Laxmi Rarnasubramanian
Development of a Decision Support Systems for the Public Participation in
Decision Making in Spatial Planning 119
Alexandria Tisma
GIS on Main Street: A GIS for the Algiers Main Street Program 127
Michael Brandt
"Enterprise GIS" - Potential and Limitations in Community Health GIS Applications 135
Michael Barndt
Multimedia GIS Applications for Neighborhood Planning and Design:The Case of Pilsen, Chicago 138
Kheir Al-Kodmany
DATABASE DESIGN AND MAINTENANCE
Understanding Map Accuracy Standards and the New National Standard for Spatial DataAccuracy 148
Frederick Halfen
Detection and Adjustment of Inconsistencies in a Multi-layer Spatial Representation 151
David Gadish
Intelligent Multi-faced (Block Faces) Polygons 159
PeteTruch
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New Tools for Reporting Spatial Data Quality: Moving from Academic Concepts to
Practical Reality 167
Gary Hunter
To Compress or Not to Compress Illustrations of the Latest Compression Technology 181
Torin Haskell
On the Road to Geocodes - Building County E-911 Databases 190
Bill Elliott
Privacy and Public Access of Government Geographic Information in the Electric Age 194
T. S. Gayathri Sadagopan
The Impact ofData Quality on Benefits of Parcel Automation in Wisconsin
Local Government 203
Paul Vastag
Base Mapping - I'd Rather be a User 218
Gregory Tilley
Tin Random Densification: A Process to Minimize the Ridging Phenomenon in DTMs 223
Kevin Pegler
Digital Orthophotography Challenges of Central Business Districts of Large Cities 231
Doug Jacoby
Issues in GIS Data Maintenance 237
Douglas Roberts
New York City: Building its First Photogrammetric Landbase 247
James Cannistra
A Methodology for Digital Elevation Model (DEM) Uncertainty Evaluation: The EffectDEM Uncertainty on Topographic Parameters 258
Suzanne P. Wechsler
An Object-Oriented Database Approach for Urban Warfare 272
Kevin Shaw
Digital Aerial Imagery: Benefits of Low-Cost Techniques in Urban Developmentand Planning 284
Denika Garnet
Raster Image Warping for Geometric Correction of Cartographic Bases 289
Larry Moore
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A Spatial Internet Platform for Delivering High- End Government Information Services 298
Xavier Lopez
Producing a State - Wide High Resolution Satellite Data Mosaic and Using the Data in
Planning Processes 303
Gotthard Meinel
A Reliability of Spatial Objects in a 3D GIS 314
Chui-kwan Cheung and Wenzhong Shi
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND IT/GIS
Defining the New Regional Economy: Why the Old Way Had to Go 320
Wilbur A. Steger
GIS and Urban Models: Cooperation Through the Division ofLabor 328
Britton Harris
How to Succeed at Enterprise Wide Desktop GIS 333
Jim Jackson
Revitalizing the GIS Initiative at the City of Calgary 337
DianneM. Haley
Welfare Reform and Access to Jobs: Closing the Transit Gap in MetropolitanChicago 342
RossCapaccio
Regional Economic Development and GIS 355
Louis Greenwell
Expanding Enterprise GIS into Regional GIS 357
Joseph T. Jones
Food Access Chicago: Finding and Filling the Food Gaps for Households in Cook
County Low Income Neighborhoods 361
Charles Hoch
A GIS Based Business Analysis Center - Regional Economic Development Supportthat Goes Beyond the Basics 372
Arthur Kalinski
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Modeling and Forecast of the Wake County Socio-Economic Parameters
Until the Year 2025 377
MajaVouk
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
Employing Imagery in Disaster Management 389
David K.Nale
Collaborative GIS Disaster Preparation/Response Project 392
David A. Kulberg
An Internet - Based Flood Warning System 395
Xinhao Wang
ENTERPRISE GIS
GIS - Technologies Administration 400
Thomas S. Nicoski
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
GIS and Watershed Project Management 406
Karen Kosky
Assessing the Long - Term Hydraulic Impact of Urban Sprawl - A Practical
Geographic Information System (GIS) Based Approach 416
Shilpam Pandey
INTERNET USE AND POLICIES
Using JAVA Technology to Facilitate Corporate GIS Access - City of
Fredericton, New Brunswick 427
Robert Lunn
Interactive Access to Local Demographics 434
Rocky Gardiner
Providing GIS Services Over the Internet 440
Raj Singh
Highland Park's GIS Intranet: Integration by Evolution 446
Scot Hamilton
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On-line Self-Service Development Review Process - Combination of On-line GIS,Permit and Comment Management 449
Dennis Klein and Ho W. Sit
Creating and Interactive Resource Database Using Map Objects on the Web 457
Kathleen Cullinane
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY/PUBLIC ACCESS/PRIVACY
Private Lives, Public Partnerships: Advances in Private Sector Privacy Protection 461
Christopher Michell-Viret
Public Access Terminals: Privacy vs. Efficiency 470
Chaula Jain
INTEGRATED INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Strategic Approaches to Community Safety Initiative (SACSI): A ProjectOverview 475
Elizabeth R. Groff
SACSI: Data - Sharing: Legal, Ethical and Cultural Issues Associated with
a Multi-Agency GIS 486
DebraA. Stoe
Strategic Approaches to Community Safety Initiative: Technical and OperationalIssues for System Implementation 489
Robert Stropky
Impervious Surfaces from Remote Sensing Data: Detroit Case Study 493
Tom Wagner
Integrated GPS Solutions: The Tax Assessor, E-91 land GIS 505
Ron Householder
KEYNOTE
Towards the Delivery of Spatial Multimedia Representations to SupportPublic Discourse 511
Michael Shiffer
LAND RECORDS, TENURE AND REGISTRATION
Upgrading the Spatial Accuracy ofDigital Cadastral Databases 522
Ewan Masters
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Integrating Tax Cycle and CAMA Data Into a MGE GIS Project and AnalyzingIT from GEOMEDIA® and ArcView® GIS Software 528
Brent Mainzinger
Public Land Survey -Derived Geographic Base Layers in the Midwest: Focus on
a Large - Scale Minnesota 532
Amy Griffin
Land Registration Modernization in Developing Economies 542
Grenville Barnes
Title Registration Strategies - Successes and Failures 552
Martha Lombard
A Florida County Property Appraiser's Role in "Wildfires '98" 561
Morgan B. Gilreath
MANAGEMENT, INFORMATION, AND TECHNOLOGY
Six Keys to Gaining Executive Commitment to GIS 566
Jerry Davis
GIS Certification: A Comparative Review of Overseas Developments 571
Jochen Albrect
Establishing GIS Data Sharing IN New York: The Great Compromise (CanIt Work For You?) 577
R. B.Oswald
University Partnering for a GIS Needs Analysis 579
David Flack
The Globe Program 581
Gregory N. Cox
The Three Leading Killers of GIS 585
David Gallaher
Connectivity and Data Sharing Between the City the Appraisal District and the 911 587
Jill S. Urban-Karr
Yes, We Can Have GIS!: The City ofLubbock Planning Department Example 591
Sally Still Abbe
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The Promise of Open GIS595
David McGaughey
Integrating the City of Chicago's Enterprise Data 603
Norman Pucilo
The Roles for Land Surveyors in Developing GIS Basemaps 606
Bruce S. Joffe
Planning, Development, Implementation and Various Side Bars for GIS 617
Sallie J. Huber and Richard Sandner
PUBLIC WORKS AND FACILITIES MANAGEMENT
The Development ofMetra's Commuter Railroad GIS 643
John M. Arndorfer
Facilities Management -A Case Study in Data Management and Information. 648
Franziska E. Brun
The Houston Story: GIS Solution for City of Houston Department of Public Worksand Engineering 652
Nancy Fischer
SPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURES
Integrating Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) at Johnson City, Tennessee:GIS as the "Data Core" 658
Don E. Kiel
MAP -A Smart Partnership 660
David B. Johnston
Ohio Geographically Referenced Information Program Metadata Pilot Project 669
Kathleen Sherman
Using GIS in the Multi - Jurisdictional Planning ofDiverse Metropolitan }Communities 680
Dave Windle, Jerry Happel, and Kevin Ringwald ,
Global Survey ofNational Spatial Data Infrastructure Activities 690
Harlan J. Onsrud
Making Metadata a Part of Your Daily Diet 700
Rick Gelbmann and Tony Mathys
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URBAN DESIGN AND MODELING
Community Planning and Simulation Project 717
Robert Bernard
Quantifying Neighborhood Characteristics that Influence Trip Linking 719
Sumeeta Srinivasan
Modeling Change in Urban Boundaries - A Case Study ofBeirut 732
JamalH. Abed
An Information System for Urban Soundscape 736
Robert Laurini
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