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Illustrated Guide to Nonprofit GIS and Online Mapping

posted by Satri on Thursday February 25, @10:40AM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the more-than-profit-from-maps dept.
Book Reviews
MapTogether announced the first public version of their "Illustrated Guide to Nonprofit GIS and Online Mapping". From the announcement: "The Guide includes: * a brief introduction to mapping and GIS (geographic information systems) technology and concepts. * examples of successful nonprofit projects using GIS and/or mapping technologies. * helpful strategies for planning your own mapping/GIS project. * a review of public data sources with freely available data. * a brief review of free and low-cost tools for nonprofit mapping and GIS projects." It's a 46-pages long pdf released under a Creative Commons 3.0 NC/BY/ND license.

GIS for Public Safety - An Annotated Guide to ArcGIS Tools & Procedures

posted by Satri on Thursday February 18, @03:24PM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the in-the-safety-of-your-GIS dept.
Book Reviews
Via the JAGIS-L, here's a 127-pages free book named "GIS for Public Safety - An annotated guide to ArcGIS tools & procedures" by by Joel M. Caplan, Ph.D. From the preface: "This book focuses on ESRI’s ArcGIS functionality and presents all of the tools and procedures that are commonly used by public safety researchers and practitioners. It gives simple steps for descriptive, exploratory, and explanatory mapping tasks and includes concise but meaningful discussions to let you critically assess and accurately apply the software to your own unique specialty. This provides a solid foundation for advanced spatial thinking and permits you to utilize GIS technology in your own innovative ways. This book is intended for an introductory audience, but GIS users at all skill levels will find value in it as a reference manual. “Introductory” does not mean limited content. Rather, it means that the focus of the book is on the technical aspect of GIS mapping."

Industry: Technical Overview of MapGuide

posted by Satri on Tuesday February 02, @11:36AM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the guide-me-to-web-mapping-paradise dept.
Autodesk
Geoweb Guru shares a short technical overview of MapGuide, both the Enterprise and Open Source versions. From the review; "MapGuide is a web-based map platform that includes both server and client components. It is currently available in two forms: "MapGuide Open Source" from the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) under the Lesser GPL license; and as "Autodesk MapGuide for Enterprise" directly from Autodesk. [...] The open source version lacks connectivity to data stores to a number of data stores (eg. Oracle), AutoCAD integration, and localized versions. As would be expected for an open source application without a commercial support license, it also lacks additional quality assurance and formal support - both are included with purchases of MapGuide for Enterprise licenses. [...] Despite the design successes of the MapGuide architecture, it has been criticised for a number of limitations. Most MapGuide applications have to rely on a client plug-in, ActiveX control, or Java applet. This client-side plug-in is then controlled using JavaScript. [...] Although MapGuide ships for both Linux and Windows, it is generally recognised as being very Windows-centric." See also related stories below.

A Practical Guide to Geostatistical Mapping

posted by Satri on Thursday December 10, @04:37PM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the there-are-80%-chances-that-this-book-will-find-you dept.
Book Reviews
om_henners writes "Tomislav Hengl has just released has new book, A Practical Guide to Geostatistical Mapping over at http://spatial-analyst.net/book/. The book is available for free browsing online and as a free PDF download, or you can order a printed copy. The book is made up of lecture material for a PHD course teaching spatial analysis using open source software. All the datasets used in the book are available at the homepage as well."

GGL (Generic Geometry Library) Accepted into Boost

posted by Satri on Monday November 30, @12:40PM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the boosting-geometry dept.
Software Reviews
Barend Gehrels writes "GGL (Generic Geometry Library) has been accepted into Boost. Boost is "...one of the most highly regarded and expertly designed C++ library projects in the world."

The Review Report can be found here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel /197108
GGL can be found here: http://trac.osgeo.org/ggl
Boost can be found here: http://www.boost.org/"
We mentioned the GGL last February

Book Reviews: Rethinking Maps, Strange Maps and 4th Part of the World

posted by Satri on Thursday November 19, @12:07PM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the bionic-eye dept.
Book Reviews
Here's recent book reviews found on the geoblogs. V1 offers a review of "Rethink­ing Maps" by Mar­tin Dodge, Rob Kitchin and Chris Perkins: "The book 'Rethinking Maps - New frontiers in cartographic theory' is not only about mapping today, it describes where mapping might be in the future and provides insightful considerations for thinking about the many changes happening in the pursuit of cartography." The Map Room offers information on Frank Jacobs' Strange Maps book, including a link to an interview of the Author: "An intriguing collection of more than one hundred out-of-the-ordinary maps, blending art, history, and pop culture for a unique atlas of humanity" TMR also links to a review of "The Fourth Part of the World" by Toby Lester: "This is a very impressive book: always user-friendly but never dumbed-down and covering an extraordinary range of subject matters. The best popular book on cartography, in fact, since Nicholas Crane’s Mercator; and that is high praise indeed." Finally, not really a book, but the journal "Cartographic Perspectives" has made available its issue 64.

"Using KML for Thematic Mapping" Research Paper

posted by Satri on Thursday October 29, @01:56PM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the searching-and-finding dept.
Article Reviews
A little over a week ago, Bjørn Sandvik of the Thematic Mapping blog and its open source engine shared his research paper named "Using KML for Thematic Mapping". From the blig entry: "My research paper, Using KML for Thematic Mapping, is now available for download (PDF, 2.3 MB). This is the first part of my MSc GIS thesis from University of Edinburgh. The second part of my thesis, describing the Thematic Mapping Engine, is already available on this page. The thesis was awarded with distinction and an invitation to Googleplex." See also previous thematic mapping stories below.
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