GIS for Everyone: Exploring Your Neighborhood and Your World With Geographic Information Systems

By James O. Wilkes

Book Overview

This guide to GIS explains how geographic information can be made visually understandable to users everywhere, illustrating the technology's wide variety of applications -- from monitoring all rail systems and airplane noise levels to finding the perfect vacation spot or the quickest route to work. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1589480562
• ISBN13: 9781589480568
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Esri Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.6" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

A good place to start!

The book with the CD are very useful to learn the basics about ESRI GIS principles. I was looking for a book to help gain some insight into how GIS works; this fulfilled the need.

wonderful stocking stuffer

I recommend buying several copies of this book and sending them out to friends & family you might want to offer more of a glimpse into GIS than just sending them to an online atlas. It comes with ESRI's free GIS viewer ArcExplorer and a decent set of data to get started with, and AE itself is a handy tool for letting folks explore work you've done, or sending them work you've done for them (road trip!). Has an appendix...

Exploring Smart Maps

We live at a time when more and more information is being converted into digital form. For example, music went from analog (records) to digital (CDs). Movies are going from videotape to DVD. Cameras are transitioning from taking photographs to generating digital images. Books and maps are also going digital. While the advantages of a digital book are not clearly established, the advantages of digital maps are nothing...

Very, very good starting book for GIS

This book is great fun! The CD has lots of stuff on it to explore, and the 'explorations' are all interesting. One or two parts of the explorations do not function off the 'read only' CD-ROM but will work if you copy the appropriate folders to your hard disk. (The author solved that one for me with a very timely e-mail response.) The ESRI site also has lots of free data files you can use with the included software. Really...

a very cool book

as someone who has been trying for my entire career to explain what geographical information systems (my speciality) are all about, I was thrilled to find and read this book. It could not be more plainly written: very basic, but gets the idea across about how powerful (and fun) geographically-indexed information can be.