TY - BOOK AU - Balram,Shivand AU - Dragicevic, Suzana TI - Collaborative geographic information systems SN - 1591408466 U1 - 910.285 PY - 2006/// CY - Hershey PB - Idea Group Publishing KW - Geographic information systems KW - Group decision making N1 - Many advances in the integration of group spatial modeling, geographic information systems (GIS), and the Internet have occurred in recent years; however, there is a lack of materials to highlight the transdisciplinary characteristics and impacts of this convergence while providing a uniform and consistent treatment of this expanding field of research. This book identifies unifying concepts in the field, and presents them in a single volume, providing a comprehensive treatment of collaborative GIS that focus on system design, group spatial planning and mapping, Internet and wireless applications, and more. This book also details the theories, processes, and tools for designing and implementing collaborative GIS, and explores collaborative GIS methodologies currently being used or developed ER -