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Introduction to Geographic Information Systems

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Book was in mint condition. The seller answered my query promptly and delivered right on time. The seller is highly recommended.

This product causes more confusion than is normal. But I will home in only on a mistake made by Amazon.com. They show a picture of the fifth edition paperback with an arrow that says look inside. When that is clicked you are taken to the second edition. Amazon.com are you selling the fifth edition paperback or the second edition?

I had to buy the book for a class. So now I will tell you what I think aboout the 4th edition. I gave a poor review for the first edition because of the mistakes in explaining the way the CD data was to be used. The back of the fourth edition says "Learn GIS the Easy Way" I assume that is put there because the CD is supposed to walk the student through the subject. The problem is that the exercises are sometimes wrong and sometimes assume you understand what is meant, without a proper explanation. Instructions are abreviated in some cases and assume the student understands how to accomplish the task. It appears in order to learn GIS from this book, using the included data, one has to know GIS.

There is no discussion of the included CD in the book. After awhile I concluded that you are supposed to simply copy the entire disk to your hard drive. when that is done things work better, but it does not get rid of the typos and mistakes and cryptic wording in some of the tasks. The text itself is OK but it could explain some subjects better.