Web mapping illustrated / Tyler Mitchell.

With the help of the Internet and accompanying tools, creating and publishing online maps has become easier and rich with options. A city guide web site can use maps to show the location of restaurants, museums, and art venues. A business can post a map for reaching its offices. The state government...

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Online Access: Full Text (via O'Reilly/Safari)
Main Author: Mitchell, Tyler
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Sebastopol, CA ; Farnham : O'Reilly Media, 2005.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction to digital mapping
  • 2. Digital mapping tasks and tools
  • 3. Converting and viewing maps
  • 4. Installing MapServer
  • 5. Acquiring map data
  • 6. Analyzing map data
  • 7. Converting map data
  • 8. Visualizing mapping data in a desktop program
  • 9. Create and edit personal map data
  • 10. Creating static maps
  • 11. Publishing interactive maps on the Web
  • 12. Accessing maps through Web services
  • 13. Managing a spatial database
  • 14. Custom programming with MapServer's MapScript
  • A. brief introduciton to map projections
  • B. MapServer reference guide for vector data access.