Includes bibliographical references.

Distributed GIS: if its time is now, why is it resisted? -- Dynamics of inter-organizational geographic data sharing: a conceptual framework for research -- Sharing geographic information across organizational boundaries: a research framework -- Taxonomy of spatial data sharing -- A proposed structure for observing data sharing -- Why we can't share data: institutional inertia -- Sharing geographic information among local government agencies in the San Diego Region -- Reducing inter-organizational conflict to facilitate sharing geographic information -- Systems integration: a reason and a means for data sharing -- Overarching bodies for coordinating geographic data sharing at three levels of government -- The evolution of geographic information systems and spatial data-sharing activities in California state government -- Computers and horizontal information sharing in the public sector -- Information sharing: the effects of GIS on British local government -- Problems in public access policy for GIS databases: an economic perspective -- Comments on the economics of geographic information and data access in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts -- The role of law in impeding and facilitating the sharing of geographic information -- Control of public information -- Libraries as institutions for sharing -- Public data access: another side of GIS data sharing -- Facilitating the sharing of spatial data: perspectives from the Mapping Science Committee -- Coordination of surveying, mapping, and related spatial data activities -- Sharing street centerline spatial databases -- Development and maintenance of the TIGER database: experiences in spatial data sharing at the U.S. Bureau of the Census -- GIS and the integrated highway information system -- Sharing imperfect data -- A multi-agency management structure to facilitate the sharing of geographic data in Florida -- Sharing spatial information in an imperfect world: interactions between technical and organizational issues -- Sharing spatial data among social scientists -- Sharing spatial data among physical scientists.