Geographic Information Management in Local Government
After spending well over a year contemplating and researching both the scope
and the content of this book, we began writing it as the Ưmillennium dawned,
a time described by many as a pivotal point between the past and the future. Early
in the year 2000, both the popular and the technical press contained numerous articles
by leading writers, commentators, and academics predicting how they saw Britain,
the world, and people’s lives changing during the 21st century. While their opinions
differed, they all recognized that during the past century, science and technology
had opened more doors than anyone could have possibly imagined. While science
is notoriously unpredictable, most...