GIS for Web Developers: Adding ‘Where’ to Your Web Applications
TITLE : GIS for Web Developers: Adding ‘Where’ to Your Web Applications [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)
AUTHOR : by Scott Davis (Author)
PUBLISHER : Pragmatic Bookshelf publisher
ISBN : 0974514098
EDITION : 1st
PUB DATE : October 09, 2007
LANGUAGE : English
There is a hidden revolution going on: geography is moving from niche to
the mainstream. News reports routinely include maps and satellite
images. More and more pieces of equipment cell phones, cars, computers
now contain Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers. Many of the major
database vendors have made geographic data types standard in their
flagship products. GIS for Web Developers introduces Geographic
Information Systems (GIS) in simple terms and demonstrates hands-on
uses. With this book, you’ll explore popular websites like
maps.google.com, see the technologies they use, and learn how to create
your own. Written with the usual Pragmatic Bookshelf humor and
real-world experience, GIS for Web Developers makes geographic
programming concepts accessible to the common developer. This book will
demystify GIS and show you how to make GIS work for you. You’ll learn
the buzzwords and explore ways to geographically-enable your own
applications. GIS is not a fundamentally difficult domain, but there is
a barrier to entry because of the industry jargon. This book will show
you how to “walk the walk” and “talk the talk” of a geographer. You’ll
learn how to find the vast amounts of free geographic data that’s out
there and how to bring it all together. Although this data is free, it’s
scattered across the web on a variety of different sites, in a variety
of incompatible formats. You’ll see how to convert it among several
popular formats including plain text, ESRI Shapefiles, and Geography
Markup Language (GML). With this book in hand, you’ll become a real
geographic programmer using the Java programming language. You’ll find
plenty of working code examples in Java using some of the many
GIS-oriented applications and APIs. You’ll be able to:
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