Serving Maps on the Internet: Geographic Information on the World Wide Web [Deluxe Edition] [Paperback]

Christian Harder (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 28, 1998

Take an insider's look at how forward-thinking organizations deliver map-based information via the Internet to help staff, clients, and the community at large.

Product Details

• Paperback: 130 pages
• Publisher: Esri Press (July 28, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1879102528
• ISBN-13: 978-1879102521
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,025,037 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Over-glorified Sales Brochure, December 22, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Serving Maps on the Internet: Geographic Information on the World Wide Web (Paperback)

This book is simply an over-glorified collection of sales materials that ESRI is *selling* to you (and out of date sales materials at that!). The CD only contains materials that you can download for free off the internet anyway and the book only references ESRI software. If you are interested in ESRI software, you would be better off having them send you the actual sales materials. They would be up-to-date and free to boot.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Expensive price for an advert !, December 11, 2000

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This review is from: Serving Maps on the Internet: Geographic Information on the World Wide Web (Paperback)

If the technology is certainly interesting and full of promises, the book is not. It contains only basic information on ESRI's products and a CD with demos that you can find on the ESRI web pages. ESRI's white papers offer much more material for free. Last but not least, this emerging technology is changing constantly and the book is already outdated in many point of views. Don't bother buying it and spend more time reading online GIS magazine which will keep you informed every day about new web mapping sites. And yes, there are other GIS developers than ESRI...

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't bother, October 26, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Serving Maps on the Internet: Geographic Information on the World Wide Web (Paperback)

ESRI is great at milking profit from nothing, and this book is a prime example. The "Internet" reference on the cover refers to the Web components of any typical GIS (read: ESRI) app, which are mostly secondary afterthoughts. None of the examples have any thoughtful insight into how GIS and the Internet can be combined to produce a sum greater than their parts. Just print a map to PDF, put it on a web sight, and you're "serving maps on the internet"! How enlightening.