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Web Mapping Illustrated: Using Open Source GIS Toolkits 1st Edition

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With the help of the Internet and accompanying tools, creating and publishing online maps has become easier and rich with options. A city guide web site can use maps to show the location of restaurants, museums, and art venues. A business can post a map for reaching its offices. The state government can present a map showing average income by area. Developers who want to publish maps on the web often discover that commercial tools cost too much and hunting down the free tools scattered across Internet can use up too much of your time and resources. Web Mapping Illustrated shows you how to create maps, even interactive maps, with free tools, including MapServer, OpenEV, GDAL/OGR, and PostGIS. It also explains how to find, collect, understand, use, and share mapping data, both over the traditional Web and using OGC-standard services like WFS and WMS. Mapping is a growing field that goes beyond collecting and analyzing GIS data. Web Mapping Illustrated shows how to combine free geographic data, GPS, and data management tools into one resource for your mapping information needs so you don't have to lose your way while searching for it. Remember the fun you had exploring the world with maps? Experience the fun again with Web Mapping Illustrated. This book will take you on a direct route to creating valuable maps.
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    July 26, 2005
  6. Language
    English
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    7 x 0.82 x 9.19 inches
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Tyler Mitchell is the author of Web Mapping Illustrated - a book focused on teaching how to use popular Open Source Geospatial Toolkits. He works as Engineering Director for Actian and as Publisher of Locate Press.  He formerly served as the Executive Director of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation, aka OSGeo.

He has over 16 years of industrial geospatial and GIS experience in natural resource management and forestry in western Canada. He came to open source to find tools that he could use throughout his career as a geospatial professional. What he found were tools that could dramatically improve enterprise, corporate-wide, geospatial data management and communication.

He is an avid proponent of the popular web mapping program, MapServer, and other spatial data management tools including Ingres, PostGIS, GDAL/OGR and QGIS. His work and interests include geospatial and tabular data management, analysis, manipulation and visualization through maps.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ O'Reilly Media; 1st edition (July 26, 2005)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 367 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0596008651
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0596008659
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.3 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.82 x 9.19 inches
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Tyler Mitchell is a Geographer and technophile. If it combines both then he's even happier. Getting into Geographic Information Systems (GIS) has helped him discover the need for building a professional toolkit that is both affordable and accessible. Enter Open Source Geospatial Software. He helped start and runs day-to-day activities of OSGeo.org and enjoys meeting FOSS4Gers from around the world. He writes on these topics and has many projects coming to slow boil on the back burner.

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ButtKicking
5.0 out of 5 stars Great intro to Open Source GIS
Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2005
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This is a really well-written introduction to both GIS and open source. As a GIS professional whose office uses extremely expensive proprietary software, this book was a great help in looking at a broad range of open source options, focusing in particular desktop tools like OpenEv, Internet tools like MapServer, and database back ends like PostgreSQL and PostGIS (my particular interest as a part-time DBA). I was a little surprised so little was mentioned of GRASS, as it's been around for so long and is fairly well established, but it may have been the complexity of GRASS didn't lend itself well to the introduction-style of the book.

Highly recommended to people interested either in GIS or open source software in general.
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Radler
5.0 out of 5 stars amazing book
Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2013
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There's no book available, which has nearly the same powerful and useful contents. This book dicribes the whole work steps to realize web mapping.
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D Moore
4.0 out of 5 stars Straight forward
Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2010
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Easy to read. Excellent primer for those of us picking up Map Server.

I didn't worry about the older version it describes as I was after core concepts of the server and not specific command lines.

It's gotten me started.
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Curmudgeon
5.0 out of 5 stars Good primer for the novice
Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2009
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If you think you want to dabble in open source geospatial Web Services, this is a good book to learn about the fundamentals. I would have liked to see more coverage of OGC standards.
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JavaGrrl
3.0 out of 5 stars This was probably really good in 2005...but it's 2013
Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2013
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Plain and simple: this book is outdated.

8 years after its printing, there are many more open source technologies out there for mapping (e.g. Leaflet) that deserve to be covered or at least mentioned.

Also, another reviewer mentioned there were color images in this book. The book I received had black and white printing throughout...no color except for the green on the cover.
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Kathy Ellis
5.0 out of 5 stars Great tool!
Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2017
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Delivered on time. Great tool!
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Bette Lamore
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2015
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Everything I expected.
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B. Humphrey
2.0 out of 5 stars Great if you know nothing about free software - otherwise avoid the book...
Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2006
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To be short and to the point... the title basically covers the primary issue I had with the book... I felt most of the book could be summed up in about 20 pages but yet it was still a full book of how to go get a free piece of software, connect a GPS, and chart where you were going...

Note: I was most likely disappointed because I was truly looking for a much more technical discussion on how GPS databases work and how to decode GIS information. In the past when I have prucased books form the publisher they were much more in depth on technical aspects of the systems, data, and so forth. In this case it was a discussion of how to sue free software and a GPS... no truly what I had in mind.

Oh, well... other I'm sure will enjoy it... just didn't fill the bill for me...
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5.0 out of 5 stars This book was recommended to me as a great starter book to understanding ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 25, 2017
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This book was recommended to me as a great starter book to understanding digital mapping software, only time will tell if I master it. Arrived in date time given and was well packaged.
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georgia k.
5.0 out of 5 stars but really good.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 16, 2016
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Old, but really good.
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Gudmundur Ingimarsson
3.0 out of 5 stars Old but good
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 5, 2013
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Since 2007, many things have changed in the world of geography. But many things in this book are fine. Still, old!
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