June 2005
Intermediate to advanced
568 pages
24h 7m
English
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can find more of his hacks, software experiments, and general thoughts
at http://douweosinga.com.
• Gary Sherman lives and works in Alaska. He has spent much of the last
15 years working with Geographic Information Systems and developing
custom applications. His current spare-time activity is Quantum GIS at
http://qgis.org.
• Raj Singh graduated from Brown University in 1991 with a Bachelor’s
degree in economics and a minor in computer science. He went to work
in environmental consulting, and quickly gravitated towards the GIS
side of the business, ending up back in school to learn the technology
more formally. He entered the Department of Urban Studies and Plan-
ning for a Master’s degree and left ten years later with that and a PhD in
urban information systems. Don’t feel too horrified, though. The actual
time he spent in school was much shorter than that, as he also spent
almost five years starting a company that developed Internet-based GIS
systems. He is currently an information systems architect at a leading
engineering firm and a part-time research scientist at MIT.
• Simon St.Laurent (http://simonstl.com/) is an editor with O’Reilly Media,
Inc. Prior to that, he’d been a web developer, network administrator,
computer book author, and XML troublemaker. He lives in Dryden,
NY, where he keeps track of what happens at http://livingindryden.org/.
His books include XML: A Primer,
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