Announcement of a new listserv about GIS and the Internet/WWW

[Paul Braun]

Hello all -

I have formed a new listserv (after many positive responses) called DISTGIS.
The listserv has been formed in order to discuss, in an interdisciplinary 
environment, the issues, opportunities, and potential problems (many) of 
interactive GIS via the World Wide Web.	

As many of you might have seen, a great deal of WWW sites offer access to images
 as well as multimedia.  However, very few web sites offer the user interactive 
access to georeferenced data and their affiliated databases.  How nice it would 
be for users to remotely log on to a server, fire off a GIS user interface, 
query and analyze information remotely, and then send the results back to the 
local computer or printer!  Now that would be empowering.

However, these types of abilities require that all the "bases are covered".  
This listserv has been started to determine what those bases are, how they 
can be best seen to, and to flush out what the most current issues and hurdles
 are to getting a system such as this on-line.

To subscribe to DISTGIS send email to majordomo at ag.arizona.edu with the line:

		subscribe DISTGIS [your email address]
		
To unsubscribe to DISTGIS send email to majordomo at ag.arizona.edu with the line:

		unsubscribe DISTGIS [your email address]
		
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If you have any questions or comments don't hesitate to email me!

Thank you and talk to you on DISTGIS.


Paul Braun
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University of Arizona
School of Renewable Natural Resources
Tucson, Arizona 85721
(520) 325-7939 or 621-3045
email - pawel at nexus.srnr.arizona.edu