ABSTRACT
In a little over two years, the World Wide Web (WWW) has developed into a mass access, multimedia technology capable of two-way server-client interaction. It is this ability to process bidirectional flows of information, that gives the WWW the potential to radically alter the way in which important policy decisions are made. Equipped with appropriate datasets, spatial models and a GIS engine, the WWW and associated Web browsers, such as Mosaic and Netscape, could become a vehicle for effective open spatial decision support systems (OSDSS).
