How the Internet is changing GIS

• Costs, efficiency and innovation
  
  
• Database creation, data collection and base mapping
  
  
• Geospatial data as a commodity
  
  
• Data transfer and the Internet
  
  
• On-line geospatial data and GIS software
  
  
• Heterogeneous networked software and hardware systems
  
  
• The Geospatial Metadata Server (GMS)     GMS Home Page