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This paper addresses the development of integrated municipal data bases, with consideration given to political realities and to the sources of data now available in municipalities. First, the potential users and potential uses of a municipal data base are discussed, and an information system which would serve these users and uses is considered. Next, the "current" status of data bases in municipalities is reviewed and it is concluded that there is a large quantity of data available in many municipalities, but that integrated data bases for supporting an information system are not usually a reality. The problem of building an integrated data base from the variety of data sources presented by local agencies is then addressed. A central ingredient for an integrated data base is the Geographic Base File (GBF) which permits the construction of extracted data files from these multiple sources to support information system applications. The concept of extraction, for the integration of diverse source files via geographic references, is developed (and a prototype implementation is described in the Appendix). Using the GBF, and source data from various municipal functions, extracted data bases can be rapidly built to serve a variety of applications of an information system in the decision-making situations of municipalities.
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Mantey, P.E., Carlson, E.D. (1976). Geographic base files. In: Hasselmeier, H., Spurth, W.G. (eds) Data Base Systems. IBM 1975. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 39. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-07612-3_6
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