Abstract
The Special Interest Group on the Local Government under GISA was organized to popularize on GIS for local government, in July 1994. The first step of our study is to clear on developing or concerning level of GIS in the all local governments in Japan, by questionnaire. In the present paper discussed on this study. Purposes of GIS on running and developing are, in down order, Tax, Water supply or Sewerage, Land Manage-ment, Road and City Planning etc. The relationship of purpose to population are, city planning in large, land management in small and tax in all round. On the ratio of running and developing level or concerning level in GIS, large population cities group was larger than small towns. Multipurpose systems were 32% on running and 71% on running, developing and planning.
