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Map Scripting 101

Websites like MapQuest and Google Maps have transformed the way we think about maps. But these services do more than offer driving directions — they provide APIs that web developers can use to...More

Mastering ArcGIS

Mastering ArcGIS is an introductory GIS text that is designed to offer everything you need to master the basic elements of GIS. The author's step-by-step approach helps students negotiate the...More

Exploring the Urban Community: A GIS Approach

Authored by accomplished urban geographers and GIS experts, Exploring the Urban Community: A GIS Approach leverages the modern geographer’s toolset, employing the latest GIS methodology to the...More

Geographic Hypermedia: Concepts and Systems

The book serves as a collection of multi-disciplinary contributions related to Geographic Hypermedia and highlights the technological aspects of GIS. Specifically, it focuses on its database...More

Google Maps Mashups with Google Mapplets

Have a Google Maps mashup that you'd like to expose to millions of users on maps.google.com? New to the mapping craze, but have an idea for a killer map–based application? Want to learn how to...More

The Geospatial Web: How Geobrowsers, Social Software and the Web 2.0 are Shaping the Network Society

The Geospatial Web will have a profound impact on managing knowledge, structuring workflows within and across organizations, and communicating with like-minded individuals in virtual...More

Distributed GIS

Distributed GIS concerns itself with GI Systems that do not have all of the system components in the same physical location. This could be the processing, the database, the rendering or the user...More

Online Query Processing in Geographic Information Systems: Statistical and Probabilistic Approaches

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have been widely used in many applications for exploring large georeferenced datasets. With the recent advances in Internet technologies, a large volume of...More

Weaving Services and People on the World Wide Web

Ever since its inception, the Web has changed the landscape of human experiences on how we interact with one another and data through service infrastructures via various computing devices. This...More

The KML Handbook: Geographic Visualization for the Web

KML began as the file format for Google Earth, but it has evolved into a full-fledged international standard for describing any geographic content - the "HTML of geography." It's already...More