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TABLE OF CONTENTS<br />

Basic requirements of digital systems<br />

Multi-purpose land information systems: technical, economic and<br />

institutional issues _______________________________1 v^<br />

Kenneth Dueker<br />

The user profile for digital cartographic data _________________12<br />

Ray Boyle<br />

Overlay processing in spatial information systems _______________16<br />

Andrew Frank<br />

Fundamental principles of geographic information systems __________32 I/"<br />

Nicholas Chrisman<br />

Models of terrain<br />

An adaptive methodology for automated relief generalization ________42<br />

Robert Weibel<br />

Systematic selection of very important points (VIP) from digital terrain models<br />

for constructing triangular irregular networks ______________50<br />

Zi-Tan Chen and J. Armando Guevara<br />

Fitting a triangulation to contour lines ___________________57<br />

Albert Christensen<br />

Measuring the dimension of surfaces: a review and appraisal of different methods 68<br />

Andre Roy, Ginette Gravel and Celine Gauthier<br />

Numerical representation for coordinate data<br />

Stability of map topology and robustness of map geometry __________78<br />

Alan Saalfeld<br />

tflPPARCHUS geopositioning model: an overview ______________87<br />

Hrvoje Lukatela<br />

A polygon overlay system in Prolog ____________________97<br />

W. Randolph Franklin and Peter Wu<br />

Coordinate transformations in map digitizing ________________107<br />

Wolfgang Kainz<br />

Analytical modelling applications<br />

A spatial decision support system for locational planning:<br />

design, implementation and operation __________________112<br />

Paul Densham and Marc Armstrong<br />

Realistic flow analysis using a simple network model ___________122<br />

William Moreland and Anthony Lupien<br />

A geographic information system utilizing the triangulated irregular network<br />

as a basis for hydrologic modeling __________________129<br />

Andrew Silfer, Gerald Kinn and James Hassett<br />

Methods and applications in surface depression analysis ___________137<br />

Susan Jenson and Charles Trautwein<br />

Models of spatial error<br />

Multiple sources of spatial variation and how to deal with them _______145<br />

Peter Burrough<br />

Mapping the spatial variability of soils: a cartographer's approach _____155<br />

Ferenc Csillag<br />

A model of error for choropleth maps, with applications to<br />

geographic information systems __________________165<br />

Michael Goodchild and Odette Dubuc<br />

Uncertainties in land information systems databases ______________175<br />

Yvan Bedard<br />

VII

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