Mon, 29 Aug 2005
Web Mapping
Tyler Mitchell, Web Mapping Illustrated: Using Open Source GIS Toolkits, O'Reilly
Ah no, this is not about mapping the web which is kind of an interesting
topic that has started a few projects but has not got very big. This book is
about mapping the physical world.
The real interest of this is not in scanned maps put on the web
but in the manipulation of data to present maps with some degree of
interactivity -- driving directions, socio-economic templates, pretty
much whatever you like.
After an introduction to cartography we are introduced to some Open
Source tools to accomplish this sort of thing. The author clearly loves his subject
and it shows. There are also plenty of illustrations and the whole
book is printed on a nice semi-gloss paper.
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