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GIS For Dummies

GIS For Dummies

by Michael N. DeMers

2009 (384 pages)

ISBN:9780470236826

Whether you're in charge of creating GIS applications for your business or you simply love maps, this guide is packed with information on everything from the parts that make up the systems to the spatial information products that the systems produce.

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GIS For Dummies
Cheat Sheet
Introduction
Part I - GIS: Geography on Steroids
Chapter 1	-	Seeing the Scope of GIS
Chapter 2	-	Recognizing How Maps Show Information
Chapter 3	-	Reading, Analyzing, and Interpreting Maps
Part II - Geography Goes Digital
Chapter 4	-	Creating a Conceptual Model
Chapter 5	-	Understanding the GIS Data Models
Chapter 6	-	Keeping Track of Data Descriptions
Chapter 7	-	Managing Multiple Maps
Chapter 8	-	Gathering and Digitizing Geographic Data
Part III - Retrieving, Counting, and Characterizing Geography
Chapter 9	-	Finding Information in Raster Systems
Chapter 10	-	Finding Features in Vector Systems
Chapter 11	-	Searching for Geographic Objects, Distributions, and Groups
Part IV - Analyzing Geographic Patterns
Chapter 12	-	Measuring Distance
Chapter 13	-	Working with Statistical Surfaces
Chapter 14	-	Exploring Topographical Surfaces
Chapter 15	-	Working with Networks
Chapter 16	-	Comparing Multiple Maps
Chapter 17	-	Map Algebra and Model Building
Part V - GIS Output and Application
Chapter 18	-	Producing Cartographic Output
Chapter 19	-	Generating Non-Cartographic Output
Chapter 20	-	GIS in Organizations
Part VI - The Part of Tens
Chapter 21	-	Ten GIS Software Vendors
Chapter 22	-	Ten Questions to Ask Potential Vendors
Chapter 23	-	Ten GIS Data Sources