Getting Started with Geographic Information Systems

by Keith C. Clarke

Book Overview

Designed to make the complexity of this essential high-tech field accessible to beginners, this text provides a basic, non-technical, and reader-friendly introduction to geographic information systems. In one convenient source, its comprehensive, integrated coverage examines the basic GIS material that is traditionally scattered throughout various Geography sources--e.g., in Cartography, GIS spatial analysis, and quantitative methods. Clarke's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0131494988
• ISBN13: 9780131494985
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Not bad for an intro to GIS

This book seems like it would work for an intro class to GIS anywhere from the middle school to the college level (I used it for a graduate level intro course). For the most part, it does a good job introducing broad, central, concepts in GIS without getting too technical or bogged down with detail. That being said, it also doesn't offer a whole lot to sink your teeth into. Some of the parts are painfully outdated, too. After reading some of the stuff about the advent of the new fandangled world-wide web, I had to check the copyright date. AOL?? Really? I also felt like it did a bad job introducing database concepts. Regardless of these flaws, it does work as an intro text. I am now on the 'Thematic Cartography and Geovisualization' text in the series, and I'm hoping it will be a little more useful.