Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!pilot.njin.net!psuvax1!psuvm!auvm!JPNHIROA!A990006 From: A990006@JPNHIROA.BITNET (shojiro tanaka) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.gis-l Subject: Re: Call for Comments on the GIS/LIS Meetings Series Message-ID: Date: 27 Feb 90 10:55:02 GMT Sender: Geographic Information Systems Discussion List Reply-To: Geographic Information Systems Discussion List Lines: 25 Approved: NETNEWS@AUVM.BITNET Gateway In-Reply-To: Message of Sun, 25 Feb 90 12:13:00 EST from >Ideally, we would like to identify the unique role that a meeting jointly >sponsored by the five diverse societies should play. What could be done >at such a meeting, more readily or effectively than at the individual >society meetings? And, how should or could that be achieved? Standardization of GIS's, at least as a view of an actual analyst, seems to be quite needed. GIS's are too much project oriented and/or `one-shot' in split governmental agencies, which are eventually fragmentary with a short life. Moreover, geographical data features do not usually suit the present relational database table structures, as has given complicated command syntax and in particular, two DBMS's in one information system. Thus i should think it is the very chance that joint GIS/LIS bring a fruitful outcome through the trans-disciplinary discussions. Shojiro Tanaka, A990006@jpnhiroa.bitnet Research Associate & System Administrator Information Processing Center, Hiroshima University PS. I am a member of ASPRS, and have desire to join the meeting but i will not be able to participate in the coming two conferences due to a shoe string budget and a busy-haste schedule here.