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Subject:        Query: map and GIS user needs
Date:   Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:45:51 -0400
From:   Matthew Gilmore <[log in to unmask]>
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I'm familiar with literature in information/library science on "user
needs/information seeking" of scholars in different disciplines--historians,
for example (see something like: http://www.infoethics.org/503syl.html)

Has anyone done similar research on user needs/information
seeking/interaction of users with maps and/or GIS?

I am interested in the larger research issue, but also for a particular
situation. We're discussing the utility of Googlemaps versus a web-based GIS
application. We are debating "use cases" and I'd like to draw on the
literature (if any). What does a user expect from a GIS application?

Matthew Gilmore