ArcGIS and the Digital City: A Hands-on Approach for Local Government (Paperback)

~ (Author), Eric M. Fowler (Author), Brian Parr (Author) "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..." (more)
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Product Description

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. With these exercises users will understand the power and the problems associated with working with real data in a GIS and be able to use ArcGIS software to address issues of importance to cities and counties.

About the Author

William E. Huxhold is a professor in the department of urban planning at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and is the author of An Introduction to Urban Geographic Systems. Eric M. Fowler is an ArcGIS trainer. They both live in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Product Details

• Paperback: 300 pages
• Publisher: Esri Press (April 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1589480740
• ISBN-13: 978-1589480742
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #719,726 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Book but Buyer Beware, September 5, 2006

By	Sam Hall "Sam" (Arizona) - See all my reviews

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.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Digital City an A++, November 1, 2007

By	GISCowboy (Montana) - See all my reviews

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.