From daemon Mon Jun 12 11:05 EDT 1995 Received: from bottom.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (bottom.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu [128.146.216.14]) by town.hall.org (8.6.12/941123.08ccg) with ESMTP id LAA02126 for ; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 11:02:01 -0400 Received: from [128.146.24.192] by bottom.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (8.6.10/4.940426) id LAA07275; Mon, 12 Jun 1995 11:04:09 -0400 Message-Id: <199506121504.LAA07275@bottom.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 11:01:24 +0200 To: jec@town.hall.org From: jbehr@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Judith T. Behr) Subject: Congressional Hearing Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Length: 1194 Status: RO Hello, First, I would like to say that I am very pleased with the hearing and believe that it is important for Congress to begin to utilize emerging communication technologies to further the decision making abilities and inputs in Washington and at all levels of government. I am also pleased with the choice of speakers, these men are forward thinkers and have much to contribute to this discussion. I am a computer cartographer and landscape planner and I believe that local spatial/geographic information is most important to the local economy and that most economic decisions are made in a geographic context so geographic information is vital to those decisions. Do the speakers concur with this and if so can they elaborate on their views regarding which type of information is most important to the economy. Can we begin to prioritize what types of information are most important and focus on delivering these inforamtion/data in the most efficient manner. Thank you. --------------------------------------------------------------- Judith T. Behr email: jbehr@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Dept of Geodetic Science Dept of Landscape Architecture The Ohio State University