GIS Online: Information Retrieval, Mapping, and the Internet

By Brandon Plewe

This book is the ideal guide for readers who want to build a Web site based on GIS and mapping technology, or to include maps on their Web sites. It describes the concept of geographic information... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566901375
• ISBN13: 9781566901376
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: OnWord Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

This is a one of a kind book with rooms for improvement.

This is probably the first book dedicated to this subject. For this reason it deserves a four star rating. It is written in a way that is very appropriate for development managers and users of Web GIS systems. It does not require a lot of technological know-how. It also has a lot of web links that serve the purpose of intruducing people to the idea of GIS online.However, this book is not very suitable for the technicians who actually make the web GIS. It does not have enough discussion on the related programming issues, namely, Java and Markup Languages. Its discussion on over-all system planning is also quite superficial from a programmer's point of view. Issues like how to make web GIS co-exists with other database systems (accounting, inventory control, etc.) are not discussed.

Very pleased with the material

Being new to DGIS, I was very pleased to find a "starters" book that also has resources for anyone who has 'net-savy'. I found the book to be chucked full of resources, ideas, and steps to implement a DGIS. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in such a dynamic subject.