Serving Maps on the Internet: Geographic Information on the World Wide Web
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| Rating | : | 4.63 (658 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1879102528 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 130 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-18 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Take an insider's look at how forward-thinking organizations deliver map-based information via the Internet to help staff, clients, and the community at large.
"Over-glorified Sales Brochure" according to A Customer. This book is simply an over-glorified collection of sales materials that ESRI is *selling* to you (and out of date sales materials at that!). The CD only contains materials that you can download for free off the internet anyway and the book only references ESRI software. If you are interested in ESRI software, you. Expensive price for an advert ! If the technology is certainly interesting and full of promises, the book is not. It contains only basic information on ESRI's products and a CD with demos that you can find on the ESRI web pages. ESRI's white papers offer much more material for free. Last but not least, this emerging technology is changing consta. Don't bother ESRI is great at milking profit from nothing, and this book is a prime example. The "Internet" reference on the cover refers to the Web components of any typical GIS (read: ESRI) app, which are mostly secondary afterthoughts. None of the examples have any thoughtful insight into how GIS and the Internet can be com