Skip to Content
Practical GIS
book

Practical GIS

by Gábor Farkas
June 2017
Beginner
428 pages
10h 2m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Practical GIS

Building your models

Congratulations on your first analysis! It was quite an adventure, right? What we've done is more than mere spatial analysis. We conceptualized a model, and made an analysis according to that. Our model stated that the vicinity of the requested amenities and features can be translated to 500 meters. Quiet places are places which are more than 200 meters away from busy roads, and more than 500 meters away from industrial places. Are these numbers exact? Of course not. They are approximations of real-world phenomena, and therefore, models.

What happens if one of the customers says that our analysis is faulty? Some of the results are too close to noisy places, others are too far from markets. We can try some other distances ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Hands-On Geospatial Analysis with R and QGIS

Hands-On Geospatial Analysis with R and QGIS

Shammunul Islam
GeoServer Cookbook

GeoServer Cookbook

Stefano Iacovella
QGIS: Becoming a GIS Power User

QGIS: Becoming a GIS Power User

Anita Graser, Ben Mearns, Alex Mandel, Víctor Olaya Ferrero, Alexander Bruy
PostGIS Cookbook - Second Edition

PostGIS Cookbook - Second Edition

Stephen Vincent Mather, Pedro Wightman, Bborie Park, Thomas Kraft, Mayra Zurbarán, Paolo Corti

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781787123328