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Preface

Chapter 7, Names and Places

Find the coordinates of things and the things near coordinates.

Chapter 8, Building the Geospatial Web

Learn the fundamental concepts of the emerging geospatial web and

how to start building and publishing spatial data repositories.

Chapter 9, Mapping with Other People

Where my story meets your story: Modelling the real, the subjective,

and the wholly imaginary.

Conventions Used in This Book

The following is a list of the typographical conventions used in this book:

Bold

Used to indicate spreadsheet interface elements.

Italics

Used to indicate URLs, Unix commands, filenames, filename exten-

sions, and directory/folder names. For example, a path in the filesystem

will appear as /Developer/Applications.

Constant width

Used to show code examples, the contents of files, console output, as

well as the names of variables, commands, and other code excerpts.

Constant width bold

Used in examples to show commands and other text that should be

typed literally. Also used to highlight portions of code, typically new

additions to old code.

Constant width italic

Used in code examples and tables to show sample text to be replaced

with your own values.

Gray type

Used to indicate a cross-reference within the text.

You should pay special attention to notes set apart from the text with the

following icons:

This is a tip, suggestion, or general note. It contains useful

supplementary information ...