Extending ArcView GIS: with Network Analyst, Spatial Analyst and 3D Analyst [CD-ROM]

Tim Ormsby (Author), Jonell Alvi (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 1999

An introduction to three of the growing number of sophisticated extensions that add power to the core GIS software.

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These programs are fully functional 120-day limited editions of ESRI software that require a licensed version of ArcView GIS 3.1, or higher, running on Windows 95/98/NT. There is currently no version available for Windows 2000/ME/XP.

About the Author

Tim Ormsby, Eileen Napoleon, Robert Burke, Carolyn Groessl, and Laura Feaster are all technical writers at ESRI Press and authors of "Getting to Know ArcView GIS" and "Extending ArcView GIS," They live in Redlands, California.

Alvi is a technical writer for ESRI.

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Product Details

• CD-ROM: 527 pages
• Publisher: ESRI Press (August 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1879102056
• ISBN-13: 978-1879102057
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.6 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,141,408 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #96 in Books > Professional & Technical > Professional Science > Earth Sciences > Geography > Information Systems

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Tim Ormsby, is a technical writer and coauthor, with Eileen Napoleon, Rob Burke, and Carolyn Groessl, of Getting to Know ArcView GIS and Extending ArcView GIS. He lives in Redlands, California.

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Use as a tutorial, November 26, 1999

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David (Colorado) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Extending ArcView GIS: with Network Analyst, Spatial Analyst and 3D Analyst (CD-ROM)

This book is not so much a manual as it is a tutorial. I found it useful because I learn best from example. You are walked through various exercises that teach you the basics of each extension. If you are looking for a quick-fix manual, this is not it, however if you are looking to understand how these extensions work and the potential available to a GIS user, this book is for you.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars for power users of ArcView, December 6, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Extending ArcView GIS: with Network Analyst, Spatial Analyst and 3D Analyst (CD-ROM)

ESRI Press seems to be taking their book publishing program very seriously. This is an impressive volume. I work for the USGS and found the section on the Spatial Analyst to the most well-written description of this highly complicated program to be quite useful. The section on Network Analyst is not quite as strong, but thhen again the Netwwork Analyst is an easier program to learn. I wish they would do booik like this for ArcInfo 8.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars ArcView Extensions - book good, disk bad, March 17, 2001

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V. Dwyer (Unity, ME United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Extending ArcView GIS: with Network Analyst, Spatial Analyst and 3D Analyst (CD-ROM)

This book is actually better with explanations than the manual that comes with ArcView. The tutorials for using the extensions are good. My problem with the book is the disk that comes with it (and you really need a copy of the extensions to really learn them). The disk supposedly contains extension trials - 120 days for each of the three extensions. Trouble is none of them worked! The Network Analyst and the Spatial Analyst wouldn't load completely. And the 3D Analyst caused a fatal error, and shut down the program. So, the book is good - maybe worth the price. Maybe. However, the "free disk trial" is lousy.