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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
a high level overview
While not going into much detail about the technical aspects of publishing maps on the net, this book does provide a useful overview. For examples on how large organizations use the Internet to deliver spatial information, there are some good case studies. The technology is changing raidly, however, so the book is becoming slightly dated.
Published on December 29, 1999
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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Over-glorified Sales Brochure
This book is simply an over-glorified collection of sales materials that ESRI is *selling* to you (and out of date sales materials at that!).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...
Published on December 22, 1999
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Over-glorified Sales Brochure,
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This book is simply an over-glorified collection of sales materials that ESRI is *selling* to you (and out of date sales materials at that!).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:
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Expensive price for an advert !,
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 Last but not least, this emerging technology is changing constantly and the book is already outdated in many point of views.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,
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.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
a high level overview,
By A Customer
This review is from: Serving Maps on the Internet: Geographic Information on the World Wide Web (Paperback)
While not going into much detail about the technical aspects of publishing maps on the net, this book does provide a useful overview. For examples on how large organizations use the Internet to deliver spatial information, there are some good case studies. The technology is changing raidly, however, so the book is becoming slightly dated.
1 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
a good book,
By A Customer
This review is from: Serving Maps on the Internet: Geographic Information on the World Wide Web (Paperback)
I think is a good book. in China we have some GIS online, but this book help me show how to domore.
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Serving Maps on the Internet: Geographic Information on the World Wide Web by Christian Harder (Paperback - July 28, 1998)
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