Abstract
This is a comparative study on the utilization of Geographic Information System (GIS) in local governments between Japan and Korea. Two questionnaires are used for the analysis that were collected from local governments of the two countries by questionnaires in 1999. In result, (1) The percentage of running GIS shows nearly same ratio in both regional and base local government respectively of the two countries. (2) Large population cities group have larger ratio of running level of GIS than small cities. (3) The major common problems of GIS in two countries are insufficient finance, data and system sharing, the lack of knowledge and technique on GIS.
