Full articles for this conference will be submitted only in electronic form. They may be submitted through the regular mail on a disk or may be submitted electronically by ftp or e-mail. Articles may be any length but we are assuming that most authors will produce articles about the length normally observed in GIS conference proceedings.

A. Format of Final Article

Please use the following conventions for providing information, using upper and lower case lettering, and for numbering your sections.

TITLE OF PAPER

First Name, Last Name, Title (if any)
University or Organization
Address
Phone (xxx-xxx-xxxx) Fax (xxx-xxx-xxxx)
E-Mail (xxx@xx.xx.xx)

http://www.xx.xx (Note: Please provide us with a web address only if it links directly

to information about you. We will connect the link so that readers may learn more
about you. Do not provide us with a general department or university link.)

1. Abstract (Note: List three or four terms relating to your article at the end of the abstract.)

2. First Major Topic

2.1 First Subtopic

2.2 Second Subtopic

2.2.1 Sub-subtopic

2.2.2 Sub-subtopic

3. Second Major Topic

(Use similar numbering for additional topics, subtopics and sub-subtopics.)

4. Summary or Conclusion

5. References

References should be listed in alphabetical order by author's last name. References should be formattted using the format utilized by IJGIS or by the ACSM journals. When references are cited in the text, they should be cited as (Author's Last Name, Year, Page Number if appropriate).

B. Submission of Final Article

You may send your article on a disk or send it over the network. In either case, your file(s) must be in the proper form as indicated below:

1. Regular Mail Submission

Files should be submitted on a 3.5" diskette. Please mark the diskette clearly with the platform used (PC/Mac), software used (MS Word, etc.), and the file format (RTF or HTML format preferred for text files and JPEG or GIF format for graphics files). Please send each graphic as a separate file. In order to avoid confusion, please incorporate your last name into all files submitted. Example: onsrud.html, onsrud1.gif, onsrud2.gif, etc. The text document should indicate where the graphic files should be placed.

We prefer that all articles be submitted in HTML format. If you are unable to convert your text file for us, please submit the text in RTF format or as a last resort TXT format. Please realize that most greek and other symbols in equations will not convert into HTML format. Therefore, such equations should be converted to graphics files by yourself with the resulting graphics files submitted to us.

Send all materials to:
Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering
University of Maine
UCGIS Conference Proceedings
5711 Boardman Hall, Room 348
Orono, Maine 04469-5711

2. Anonymous ftp Submission (The following are UNIX instructions.)

1. Type: ftp ucgis.spatial.maine.edu to open your ftp connection.

2. Type: anonymous for your username.

3. Type your email address for the password.

4. Type: cd /pub/uploads/ucgis97 to change into the appropriate directory.

5. Type: binary for transferring graphic and RTF files; ascii for transferring HTML files.

6. Type: put and the name of your file to transfer. You may use mput to transfer more than one

file as in: mput fname2.typ fname3.typ

7. Once your files have been transferred, check to make sure they have made it to the remote

directory using the ls or dir command to list the files.

8. Type quit to end the ftp session.

If you have questions or problems, contact Jeanne at: jtimmons@spatial.maine.edu or (207) 582-2110.

3. Electronic Mail Submission

1. Include in your message your name, article title, and the name of all attachments.

2. Attach all text and graphics in MIME format only (otherwise use anonymous ftp or regular mail for submissions).

3. Mail to: ucgisabs@spatial.maine.edu

C. Publication of Proceedings

Articles will be published on the web shortly after they are received. Thus, conference attendees should be able to acquire and read articles prior to the meeting by accessing the conference web site. A password will be provided to all registrants upon registration, but the proceedings will be made available without password protection after the meeting. A paper version of the proceedings will be published only if funding becomes available for such a publication.

D. Copyright Notice and Allowable Uses of Your Article by Others

When you submit an article to this web proceedings you are agreeing to the following use policies by readers:

The goal of this web proceedings is to allow widespread dissemination of ideas. Although authors retain full but non-exclusive copyright in their articles, readers are free to download or print copies for non-profit classroom teaching purposes provided that articles are copied in entirety so that authors retain credit for their contributions. Reproduction of articles in entirety or in part for any profit or commercial purpose is expressly forbidden without the express and written permission of the article author(s).