This web site will identify the range of GIS technologies currently involved in planning in both developing and developed countries.

Public access to remote sensing technologies already features as an important policy issue in the USA - through remote sensing farmers and ranchers are better prepared for and better able to organise around adverse climatic conditions,

Similarly, remote sensing and geographical information systems can assist households in better understanding aggregate traffic patterns. A better overview of traffic patterns can assist households in fine tuning and better organising household journeys vis-a-vis the collective or aggregate pattern of movement.

The delivery of satellite imagery to local communities through internet connections has a range of planning and participation applications - the technology package of satellite imagery and local internet connection lifts information bases which were previously the province of experts alone into the new domain of community information systems.

• Napier web cam
• Scotland's Land Information System/ doomsday Scotland - University of Edinburgh
• RApid Information Dissemination System (RAIDS)- West Freugh, Scotland
• The Gazetteer for Scotland
• Dundee Satellite Receiving Station
• Public access to GIS, California
• U.S. Department of Transportation Geographic Information Services
• Remote sensing and information systems for planning development
• Spatial odyssey -GIS Publications Database, University of Maine
• Monitoring agriculture and natural hazards through remote systems
• NASA and shoreline land use in the Upper Niagara River
• Pakistan's drought web site
• Africover Land cover assessment based on remote sensing for the whole African continent
• South Africa - Geographic Information Services
• Australian Spatial Data Directory
• Spaceimage.com - satellite technology and disaster management
• Village natural resource management in Africa
• Community information systems technology - Cornell
• Natural hazards centre - University of Colorado, Boulder
• SNIFFER - Climate change in North Ireland
• Infoville, Valencia - a community information network

Community information systems: working papers

• A new Scottish enlightenment: transport, telematics and the reduction of social exclusion