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It provides solid guide to how geospatial analysis work, particularly with respect to GIS. The book emphasizes conceptual workflows and with basic math which is helpful for creating own code and also getting an understanding of what's happening under the hood in contemporary GIS. | It is better to have an update because lots of changes in GIS software over last five years. |
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This book is for typical GIS user aspiring to design good maps. It is illustrating GIS map software and throughout with map samples in color which is especially useful for those who has little prior training or experience in map making. | This is acceptable book for beginners but very little information of advanced users. It hardly touches on advanced cartographic representations. |
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This book explains the computational geometry and algorithms concisely and very readable. It emphasis on describing algorithms and data structures theoretically. It presents pseudo code with lots of figures that is very easy to understand and follow. It's also worth reading for all computer scientists and mathematicians who are working on geometry. This is good text/reference book for graduate course. |
Focused on geometric computation and algorithm, very complicated for beginners, who does not have prior computer programming knowledge. The various algorithms and concepts often used in this book are triangulation, indexing, calculating intersection, shortest paths etc. |
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The book illustrates the most common cartographic deceptions, and provides some excellent color guides. If you want to learn how to make influential maps for a cause, this is the book!. The reader can learn what to look for and how to avoid the inadvertent or unintentional 'lies'. Worth the effort! | Basically, the book as an introduction to the science of cartography and targeted for prospective cartographer or decision making authority. |
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The book details the use of freely available open source mapping software and tools such as MapServer, GDAL, OpenEV, and PostGIS to create web gis and web maps. Mostly focused on UMN Mapserver for web mapping and building web gis. |
Not much technical discussion on how GPS databases work, how to decode GIS information. The book is fairly shallow. It will give you a couple of basic examples of how to use some pieces of software, but for anything more complicated, you have to look elsewhere. |
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