2001
February
- Focus: Redistricting by Jane Goodman
- Review: Remote Sensing Applications-Infotech
- Review: Low cost GIS software by David B Davis
- Up and Running: Institutional GIS Computing by Jeff Thurston
- Voice & Vision: Autodesk's Stephen Brockwell Speaks out on GIS Design Server
January
- Focus: Intelligent Transportation Systems - Studies are being done with GIS as it relates to transportation. A UC Santa Barbara study funded by Caltrans Testbed Center for Interoperability has performed a series of projects for the U.S. Department of Transportation to test location expression standards for intelligent transportation systems (ITS).
- Review: Geocoding Data and Software Sources by Jane Goodman
- Case Study: GIS Takes Ownership by Lili Eylon
- Up and Running: Building GIS data with MicroStation BASIC macros by Anthony Bonnici
- Voice & Vision: Thomas Palmerlee, - Senior Program Officer, Transportation Research Board
2000
August
- Feature: Emergency Evacuation Analysis, by Tom Cova, University of Utah
- Product Showcase: Voice Insight--voice integration technologies, by Susan Smith
- Case Study: A New Statistical Model for Town Centers, by Lili Eylon
- Up and Running: Intergraph's GeoMedia : How to Write a GeoMedia application using Visual Basic, by Jane Goodman
- Voice & Vision: Interview with George B. Korte, P.E., V.P. IT Services, InfoTech, by Susan Smith
September
- Focus: 3D Mapping and Broadband Wireless, by Rob Ledner, director Photogrammetry Vexcel Corporation-- 3D models of major urban areas are in big demand as broadband wireless networks expand globally.
- Review: XML for GIS, by Adena Schutzberg, Cadcorp.
- Review: Bentley MicroStation GeoParcel, by Jane Goodman
- Up and Running: Creating Geological Legends, by Vic Dohar
- Voice & Vision: Interview with Informix, by Susan Smith
October
- Feature: Stalking Wild Geography--Mapping hard-to-get-to places by Susan Smith -- Some remote sensing applications and other technologies make it possible to assess remote areas of wilderness without actually having to set foot there. Also, advanced GPS and GIS tools aid the scientist in gathering information in remote settings, where teams of researchers may be flown in on location for weeks at a time.
- Case Study: GIS in Forest Enterprise by Lili Eylon (with mini-review of ESRI's Forestry and Production application, Forester)
- Editorial: Our Shrinking World , by Susan Smith
- Review: A Look at GPS, by Kyle Bohnenstiehl
- Up and Running: Custom Tools For Working with Raster Images in Geomedia /Geomedia Webmap , by Jane Goodman, GeoQuery, Inc.
- Voice & Vision: What is VoiceXML?
- Focus: Spatial Data Approach to the Social Sciences -- Space and Place, by Kyle Bohnenstiehl -- GIS is no longer the exclusive domain of the social scientist and academics. As information systems come online to the general public, it's necessary to focus more attention on spatial cognition. Current GIS systemsrequire extensive training not available to the public. Ease of use is a real issue with GIS to empower new communities of users.
- Case Study: Delaware Tracks Crimes over State Intranet in Real Time, by Kevin Corbley
- Review: New GIS database models for spatial and relational databases, by George Korte
- Review: Manifold, by Adena Schutzberg
- Voice & Vision: Interview with GE SmallWorld
- White Paper: Intelligent and friendly access to Enterprise Gis: a conversion and re-engineering story
- Focus: GIS for Communities: GIS data can be viewed in 3D by having the smart 3D data linked to tools that design alternative scenarios and update them on the fly. It incorporates user-determined parameters, constraints variables indicators and benchmarks to analyze the impacts of a proposed scenario in action.
- Review: Compression Software, by David B. Davis
- Case Study: Brownfield Project-Planning for Housing and Communities, by Lili Eylon
- Up and Running: Building GIS Data with MicroStation BASIC Macros, by Anthony Bonnici
- Product Round-Up: All Star Favorites from the Year 2000 -- Results of our Survey!
- Voice & Vision: Bentley Interview
- White Paper: Modeling Shallow Landslide Potential for Watershed Management by Laura M. Vaugeois and Susan C. Shaw