By Scott Davis
First Edition
October 2007
Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf
Pages: 176
ISBN 10: 0-9745140-9-8 |
ISBN 13: 9780974514093
(Average of 1 Customer Reviews)
GIS for Web Developers introduces Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in simple terms and demonstrates hands-on uses. With this book, you'll explore popular websites mapquest.com and Google Maps, see the technologies they use, and learn how to create your own. Written with the usual Pragmatic Bookshelf humor and real-world experience, GIS for Web Developers makes geographic programming concepts accessible to the common developer.
Full Description
GIS for Web Developers introduces Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in simple terms and demonstrates hands-on uses. With this book, you'll explore popular websites like maps.google.com, see the technologies they use, and learn how to create your own. Written with the usual Pragmatic Bookshelf humor and real-world experience, GIS for Web Developers makes geographic programming concepts accessible to the common developer.
This book will demystify GIS and show you how to make GIS work for you. You'll learn the buzzwords and explore ways to geographically-enable your own applications. GIS is not a fundamentally difficult domain, but there is a barrier to entry because of the industry jargon. This book will show you how to "walk the walk" and "talk the talk" of a geographer.
You'll learn how to find the vast amounts of free geographic data that's out there and how to bring it all together. Although this data is free, it's scattered across the web on a variety of different sites, in a variety of incompatible formats. You'll see how to convert it among several popular formats including plain text, ESRI Shapefiles, and Geography Markup Language (GML).
With this book in hand, you'll become a real geographic programmer using the Java programming language. You'll find plenty of working code examples in Java using some of the many GIS-oriented applications and APIs. You'll be able to:
Featured customer reviews
Knowing Where to Start…, January 09 2008
The book is a *solid primer* for understanding GIS data and its usage.
It will walk you through vectors, projections, and rasters. You’ll be introduced to spatial databases and OCG (with a focus on Open Source tools).
This will get you going... places :)
Media reviews
"Overall, it’s a good book in terms of its information content, given that you’re not just looking to embed Google maps in your web application. It takes you through the terminology of GIS, database concerns, and then through standard OGC web services and clients. By the tech book standards, this one is brief, but that’s intended, as this is an introduction. The writing itself isn’t spectacular, but it’s clear and not a drudgery to read through. If you can stand the occasional corny joke and you’re looking to suck down geospatial datasets, then this is the book for you."
-- Wilhelm Chung, Chicago Area Ruby Meetup Group
