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Title: Getting to Know ArcView GIS by Editors of ESRI Press, ESRI Press ISBN: 1-879102-46-3 Publisher: ESRI Press Pub. Date: May, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.92 (13 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Useful for class or self-study
Comment: I have repeatedly used this book as the first text in an ArcView-based university course on GIS. The book uses realistic problems and settings to illustrate, step-by-step, how ArcView can be used to solve the problems and perform the needed analyses. In so doing, it serves as a good introduction to vector data analysis.
The detailed illustrations and sample software (a CD with a version of ArcView restricted to the data on the CD) enable anybody to follow through this book and work at their leisure. The text is somewhere at a junior high school level in terms of what it assumes, but it is in no way patronizing or simplistic: even graduate students have found it useful.
Sometimes follow-on analyses are suggested or sketched, but no problems are given. This is a pity, because students need additional problems to reinforce what they have just learned. Once you work through all the steps that are shown, there's nothing much else left to do.
In a few cases, the suggested analytical method is deficient. For example, in an early chapter students are shown how to site a soccer field within an open space--but the solution they derive is incorrect because the features are not projected! Other than these few deficiencies, the book is accurate and free of mistakes.
This book covers only the basic capabilities of ArcView, although at the end it briefly describes raster analysis (Spatial Analyst) and network analysis (Network Analyst).
The good design, attention to detail, and experience with GIS as well as with the software let this book rise above many others of its genre.
Rating: 5
Summary: Easy As Can Be
Comment: Having a class called "Natural Hazard Mitigation", we are currently learning the basics of Arcview GIS. This book has made it very easy as it explains step by step on how to use each application within the program. The book also includes a CD-Rom to download to Windows for use of learning most of the lessons. I highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn the basics of Arcview GIS.
Rating: 3
Summary: For those needing fundamentals
Comment: I bought this book to update my ESRI skills. I felt like the majority of the book was just basics, and the functionality of the included CD was somewhat limited. I feel one of the most important basics is to be able to create a layer from scratch, you cannot do this with the trial version. I understand why this is from a legal point, but not a learning point. I felt like the tutorials were far too basic, and had more of an eye on the cartography than the science and analysis. Overall, its a good book for beginners, but the more savvy user would find this boring.
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Title: Extending ArcView GIS: with Network Analyst, Spatial Analyst and 3D Analyst by Tim Ormsby, Tim Ormsby, Jonell Alvi ISBN: 1879102056 Publisher: ESRI Press Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop by Tim Ormsby, Eileen Napoleon, Robert Burke, Carolyn Groessl, Laura Feaster ISBN: 1879102897 Publisher: ESRI Press Pub. Date: July, 2001 List Price(USD): $59.95 |
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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: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: GIS for Everyone by David E. Davis ISBN: 1589480562 Publisher: ESRI Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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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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