to important individuals outside the 
operations centre. The president and public 
relations spokesperson would be immediately 
briefed of details prior to press interviews. 
Within the operations centre, the GIS 
integration would show a geographic display 
of the derailment. Based on weather 
conditions (from a GIS package) 
characteristics of the chemicals (from a 
chemical database), terrain (from a GIS 
package), population (from a GIS or 
database), and others; the organization can 
quickly react to reduce potential threats. 
Video information from television networks 
or previously recorded training tapes can be 
integrated. 
8. Conclusions 
Multimedia is the vehicle propelling GIS from 
the discrete application to the corporate 
desktop. GIS techniques for displaying 
complex information will be exploited by 
organizations to improve decision making, 
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 
This paper benefited from the comments and 
assistance of Fifth Dimension colleagues: John 
Piraino, Dan McQuade and Ted Burnett. 
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