Web Mapping Illustrated - Tyler Mitchell

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Auteur(s) : Tyler Mitchell

Editeur : O'reilly Media, Inc.

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/07/2005

Nombre de pages : 367

Expédition : 617

Dimensions : 23.3 x 17.9 x 2.5

ISBN : 0636920008651

Biographie:

Tyler Mitchell is the author of Web Mapping Illustrated - a book focused on teaching how to use popular Open Source Geospatial Toolkits. He works as the Executive Director of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation, aka OSGeo.

He has over a dozen years of industrial geospatial and GIS experience in natural resource management and forestry in western Canada. He came to open source to find tools that he could use throughout his career as a geospatial professional. What he found were tools that could dramatically improve enterprise, corporate-wide, geospatial data management and communication.

He is an avid proponent of the popular web mapping program, MapServer, and other spatial data management tools including PostGIS, GDAL/OGR and QGIS. His work and interests include geospatial and tabular data management, analysis, manipulation and visualization through maps.

Sommaire:
Foreword; Preface; Youthful Exploration; The Tools in This Book; What This Book Covers; Organization of This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; Safari Enabled; Comments and Questions; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction to Digital Mapping; 1.1 The Power of Digital Maps; 1.2 The Difficulties of Making Maps; 1.3 Different Kinds of Web Mapping; Chapter 2: Digital Mapping Tasks and Tools; 2.1 Common Mapping Tasks; 2.2 Common Pitfalls, Deadends, and Irritations; 2.3 Identifying the Types of Tasks for a Project; Chapter 3: Converting and Viewing Maps; 3.1 Raster and Vector; 3.2 OpenEV; 3.3 MapServer; 3.4 Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL); 3.5 OGR Simple Features Library; 3.6 PostGIS; 3.7 Summary of Applications; Chapter 4: Installing MapServer; 4.1 How MapServer Applications Operate; 4.2 Walkthrough of the Main Components; 4.3 Installing MapServer; 4.4 Getting Help; Chapter 5: Acquiring Map Data; 5.1 Appraising Your Data Needs; 5.2 Acquiring the Data You Need; Chapter 6: Analyzing Map Data; 6.1 Downloading the Demonstration Data; 6.2 Installing Data Management Tools: GDAL and FWTools; 6.3 Examining Data Content; 6.4 Summarizing Information Using Other Tools; Chapter 7: Converting Map Data; 7.1 Converting Map Data; 7.2 Converting Vector Data; 7.3 Converting Raster Data to Other Formats; Chapter 8: Visualizing Mapping Data in a Desktop Program; 8.1 Visualization and Mapping Programs; 8.2 Using OpenEV; 8.3 OpenEV Basics; Chapter 9: Create and Edit Personal Map Data; 9.1 Planning Your Map; 9.2 Preprocessing Data Examples; Chapter 10: Creating Static Maps; 10.1 MapServer Utilities; 10.2 Sample Uses of the Command-Line Utilities; 10.3 Setting Output Image Formats; Chapter 11: Publishing Interactive Maps on the Web; 11.1 Preparing and Testing MapServer; 11.2 Create a Custom Application for a Particular Area; 11.3 Continuing Education; Chapter 12: Accessing Maps Through Web Services; 12.1 Web Services for Mapping; 12.2 What Do Web Services for Mapping Do?; 12.3 Using MapServer with Web Services; 12.4 Reference Map Files; Chapter 13: Managing a Spatial Database; 13.1 Introducing PostGIS; 13.2 What Is a Spatial Database?; 13.3 Downloading PostGIS Install Packages and Binaries; 13.4 Compiling from Source Code; 13.5 Steps for Setting Up PostGIS; 13.6 Creating a Spatial Database; 13.7 Load Data into the Database; 13.8 Spatial Data Queries; 13.9 Accessing Spatial Data from PostGIS in Other Applications; Chapter 14: Custom Programming with MapServer's MapScript; 14.1 Introducing MapScript; 14.2 Getting MapScript; 14.3 MapScript Objects; 14.4 MapScript Examples; 14.5 Other Resources; 14.6 Parallel MapScript Translations; Appendix A: A Brief Introduction to Map Projections; A.1 The Third Spheroid from the Sun; A.2 Using Map Projections with MapServer; A.3 Map Projection Examples; A.4 Using Projections with Other Applications; A.5 References; Appendix B: MapServer Reference Guide for Vector Data Access; B.1 Vector Data; B.2 Data Format Guide; ; Colophon;