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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