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GIS for Everyone
ISBN: 1-58948-056-2
2003 160 pages
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Third Edition
Now everyone can create smart maps
for school, work, home, or community action using a personal computer
Although we don't think about it much,
there's a geographic component to just about everything human beings do-that is,
almost every activity, thing, trend, issue, or phenomenon takes place at a
particular location on the earth. This truth is at the core of a powerful
digital technology-geographic information systems, or GIS.
Using a GIS, virtually any kind of data
can be placed on a digital map, then visualized, compared, measured, and
analyzed. Many governments and large organizations use GIS because of the
astonishing diversity of information types that can be mapped and analyzed-these
range from population demographics, to health statistics and epidemiology,
utility and transportation networks, flood protection zones, animal migration
routes, crime patterns, historical battlefields, sales and marketing trends,
disaster destruction areas, and much more.
GIS for Everyone, Third Edition provides
an easy introduction to this powerful technology. Everything you need to get
started with GIS you'll find in this new edition, including the latest free GIS
software from ESRI, 500 MB of digital geographic data, and free access to
valuable data for any U.S. ZIP Code.
Using clear language and carefully
organized lessons, this self-study workbook will have anyone-student, small
business owner, or community leader-creating GIS projects within minutes. Using
data from the CD and from the Geography NetworkSM, readers will be able to
create digital maps and simple geographic analyses for use in school or work
projects, or on Web sites-bringing the power of GIS to any location on earth.
CD-ROM:
GIS for Everyone: Third Edition includes a CD featuring a fully working
version of ArcExplorer software (the most widely used geographic data viewer),
as well as exercise data, a map gallery, and more than 500 megabytes of detailed
GIS data covering the entire planet. A companion website allows readers to
access updated data, exercises and software. Requires a PC running Windows 98,
Windows NT, Windows 2000, or Windows XP; 8 MB RAM; CD-ROM drive; 10 MB hard disk
space.
About the author:
David E. Davis is a geographer and
technical writer at ESRI.
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