The City of Bangkok provides an interesting case study for examining the problems and strategies indeveloping an integrated spatial information system. Having realized the problem being faced by the city, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) decided to initiate a pilot GIS project nearly 15 years ago (Suwarnarat, 1991). BLIS was under taken from 1989 to 1991 (Williamson and Mathieson, 1994). Theprimary objectives of the BLIS project were: