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Desktop GIS: Mapping the Planet with Open Source Tools
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Product Description
Desktop GIS explores the world of Open Source GIS software and provides a guide to navigate the many options available. Discover what kind of GIS user you are and lay the foundation to evaluate the options and decide what software is best for you.
Desktop GIS examines the challenges associated with assembling and using an OSGIS toolkit. You'll find strategies for choosing a platform, selecting the right tools, integration, managing change, and getting support. The survey of OSGIS desktop applications provides you with a quick introduction to the many packages available. You'll see examples of both GUI (Graphical User Interface) and command line interfaces to give you a feel for what is available.
This book will give you an understanding of the Open Source GIS landscape, along with a detailed look at the major desktop applications, including GRASS, Quantum GIS, uDig, spatial databases, GMT, and other command line tools. Finally, the book exposes you to scripting in the OSGIS world, using Python, shell, and other languages to visualize, digitize, and analyze your data.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #298965 in Books
- Published on: 2008-10-28
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 345 pages
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About the Author
Coming from a natural sciences background, Gary Sherman has been torturing computers and programming languages for years. Gary has been using and customizing Geographic Information Systems for well over 16 years. In 2002 he founded the Quantum GIS project, an Open Source desktop GIS application for viewing and editing data. Gary lives and works in Alaska and commutes virutally around the world via the Internet.
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Essential Book
Having done a review of this book, I must say that I could hardly wait for it to become available. Sherman does a great job of introducing the GIS tools available using Open Source software, and uses clear, easy to understand real-world examples that non-specialists will easily relate to. For people wishing to move from proprietary mapping tools to Open Source ones, this book will help to make the transition smooth and relatively painless. For more advanced users, it will make a very useful reference book, as it goes into plenty of detail, even tackling command line scripting and other more advanced methods. Congratulations, Gary, on a job well done.
