Both a textbook for GIS classes in urban planning and a workbook for local governments, this book shows how to do real tasks that are required when a city decides to go digital and use geographic information systems (GIS) to store and access information. With this book, planners, analysts, and other local government staff use data from a real city to perform tasks such as creating buildings and parcels, setting coordinate systems, and building geodatabase topology. After creating a geodatabase, working with attribute data, and geocoding data, planners will be able to perform spatial analysis to find possible drug houses near playgrounds, find buildable vacant lots, produce land use reports, and more.
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William E. Huxhold is Chairman and Associate Professor in the Department of Urban Planning at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. From 1975 to 1990 he was Management Information System project manager for the city of Milwaukee, where he implemented one of the first urban geographic systems in
North America. He received a M.S. in Engineering Management from the University of Dayton in 1973. Mr. Huxhold also wrote An Introduction to Urban Geographic Systems, published by Oxford University Press in 1973. Allan G. Levinsohn is an information technology consultant with more than 15 years of
experience managing geographic information. He is an Associate of the Banff Centre for Management, and an advisor to government agencies and companies across Canada. He has also worked in Kenya, China, Japan, Holland, and the U.S. His clients include regional and national government agencies,
municpalities, and resource, utility, engineering, and technology companies. Mr. Levinsohn is well-known for his innovative approaches to GIS planning and design.
North America. He received a M.S. in Engineering Management from the University of Dayton in 1973. Mr. Huxhold also wrote An Introduction to Urban Geographic Systems, published by Oxford University Press in 1973. Allan G. Levinsohn is an information technology consultant with more than 15 years of
experience managing geographic information. He is an Associate of the Banff Centre for Management, and an advisor to government agencies and companies across Canada. He has also worked in Kenya, China, Japan, Holland, and the U.S. His clients include regional and national government agencies,
municpalities, and resource, utility, engineering, and technology companies. Mr. Levinsohn is well-known for his innovative approaches to GIS planning and design.
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Good Book but Buyer Beware,
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This review is from: ArcGIS and the Digital City: A Hands-On Approach for Local Government (Paperback)
When purchasing this book I was not informed that the required program to run the exercises found in the book is ArcInfo 9.0. Understand that ArcInfo encompasses all of the core ArcGIS functions. I bought this book having the ArcView version of ArcGIS and was unable to complete about 70% of the book. I looked in to upgrading to ArcInfo and found that the price to upgrade is approx $6000. So if you want this book you really must have the ArcInfo version of ArcGIS or you will not be able to follow through with the book.
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Digital City an A++,
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This review is from: ArcGIS and the Digital City: A Hands-On Approach for Local Government (Paperback)
This book has been very helpful. It was chosen as an assigned text to compliment several of the assignments in my applications class. It has proven to be very useful.
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After the needs analysis and planning are complete, one of the first tasks in implementing a local government GIS is to create the spatial database. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
taxroll table, geocoding attribute data, potential drug houses, name the map document, topology toolbar, performing spatial analysis, new feature class, parcel feature class, output feature class, tax key numbers, input feature classes, raze order, validate the topology, districts layer, scroll across the table, cluster tolerance, polygon feature class, notification map, parcel features, point feature class, two feature classes, district identifiers, geodatabase feature class, parcel lines, sure your settings Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Arc City, Digital City, Catalog Tree, Error Inspector, Report Properties, Add Field, Export Data, Input Features, Layer Properties, Shape Area, Weil Development, Add Rule, Clear Verify Help Load, Spatial Reference Properties, Must Not Have Dangles, Calculate Values, Clear Selected Features, Number Format, Shape Length, Show Help, State Plane, Symbol Selector, Update the Current Report Settings, Apply Close, Attributes of Ludesc New!
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After the needs analysis and planning are complete, one of the first tasks in implementing a local government GIS is to create the spatial database. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
taxroll table, geocoding attribute data, potential drug houses, name the map document, topology toolbar, performing spatial analysis, new feature class, parcel feature class, output feature class, tax key numbers, input feature classes, raze order, validate the topology, districts layer, scroll across the table, cluster tolerance, polygon feature class, notification map, parcel features, point feature class, two feature classes, district identifiers, geodatabase feature class, parcel lines, sure your settings Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Arc City, Digital City, Catalog Tree, Error Inspector, Report Properties, Add Field, Export Data, Input Features, Layer Properties, Shape Area, Weil Development, Add Rule, Clear Verify Help Load, Spatial Reference Properties, Must Not Have Dangles, Calculate Values, Clear Selected Features, Number Format, Shape Length, Show Help, State Plane, Symbol Selector, Update the Current Report Settings, Apply Close, Attributes of Ludesc New!
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