LAW AND INFORMATION POLICY FOR SPATIAL DATABASES: A RESEARCH AGENDA
Harlan J. Onsrud, Robert I. Reis · 2016
Geographic information systems (GIS) are automated mapping and analysis systems that enable the collection, integration and interrogation of vast amounts of data concerning the location of physical entities and of events or activities. The systems, and their associated databases, already have had substantial impact on government and business throughout the world; excluding the affiliated hardware, over a billion dollars is spent annually worldwide on GIS software and services.1 Increasingly, GIS