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Title: GIS for Everyone by David E. Davis ISBN: 1-58948-056-2 Publisher: ESRI Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.17 (6 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Should change the title
Comment: to ArcExplorer for everyone.
The book is a great introduction for those who want to have a more or less thorough tour of what a GIS is capable of. Being an ESRI press book, it was more or less obvious that its only approach was goin to be through ESRI products (ie. ArcExplorer)
Anyway, the book only shows what can be done with the already processed, already "ArcMade" datafiles. It fails to explain anything else of the GIS creation process.
If you're looking for a technical book, forget it.
Rating: 5
Summary: wonderful stocking stuffer
Comment: I recommend buying several copies of this book and sending them out to friends & family you might want to offer more of a glimpse into GIS than just sending them to an online atlas. It comes with ESRI's free GIS viewer ArcExplorer and a decent set of data to get started with, and AE itself is a handy tool for letting folks explore work you've done, or sending them work you've done for them (road trip!). Has an appendix for Import71, which is handy.
Rating: 5
Summary: Exploring Smart Maps
Comment: We live at a time when more and more information is being converted into digital form. For example, music went from analog (records) to digital (CDs). Movies are going from videotape to DVD. Cameras are transitioning from taking photographs to generating digital images.
Books and maps are also going digital. While the advantages of a digital book are not clearly established, the advantages of digital maps are nothing short of breath-taking. That's because when transformed from paper to digital form, maps become enriched with information that simply cannot be included on a paper map. Davis calls these information rich products "smart" maps.
A whole new industry has emerged that deals with smart maps; it's called the Geographical Information System (GIS) industry. A GIS is computer hardware and software for spatial data handling and map making.
The variety of smart maps is so broad that the ambitious title of the book, GIS for Everyone, is not stretching it too far. Davis shows how students, business people, homemakers, and community leaders can use smart maps for school, work, home, and community action with just a Windows-based personal computer.
A computer program is needed to generate, view, and manipulate smart maps and the data they contain. One such program, ArcExplorer, is provided on the CD that is included with the book.
To generate digital maps requires data files that the computer uses to draw streets, county outlines, country boundaries, volcano locations, hurricane tracks, or any other feature or phenomenon that's mappable. The CD includes some 500 megabytes of such spatial data.
Davis guides the reader (and budding smart map user) through a series of thirteen "explorations" of places and spatial situations around the world from San Diego to Prague to Sydney, with stops at New York, Austin, and Rio de Janeiro. (Additional data, for the reader to explore on their own, are provided for other places such as Yellowstone National Park and Bucharest, Romania.)
The reader is encouraged not only to try his or her hand at exploring a variety of mappable environmental and cultural data and display the resulting smart map(s) on a computer screen but also to print, e-mail, or present the smart map on a web page.
Davis helps the reader/world explorer into the new world of smart maps by focussing on specific themes. In chapter 2, the theme is understanding digital maps. Chapter 3 focuses on finding answers with digital maps. In chapter 4 Davis shows the reader how to tell stories with digital maps. Chapter 5 helps the "reader" build digital maps and the final chapter, 6, helps the reader find additional data sources available on increasing numbers of web sites.
So, if you're interested in exploring your world and beyond (there's a satellite image of Mars on the CD), buy this book and start working with smart maps ASAP!
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Title: The GIS Book by George Korte ISBN: 0766828204 Publisher: OnWord Press Pub. Date: 30 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $58.95 |
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Title: Integrating GIS and the Global Positioning System by Karen Steede-Terry ISBN: 1879102811 Publisher: ESRI Press Pub. Date: 26 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The ESRI Guide to GIS Analysis Volume 1: Geographic Patterns & Relationships by Andy Mitchell ISBN: 1879102064 Publisher: ESRI Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: ESRI Press Dictionary of GIS Terminology by K. Heather Kennedy, Esri Press, Editors of ESRI Press ISBN: 1879102781 Publisher: ESRI Press Pub. Date: 15 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Getting to Know ArcView GIS by Editors of ESRI Press ISBN: 1879102463 Publisher: ESRI Press Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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