Web mapping illustrated
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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| Format: | eBook |
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Beijing ; Sebastopol, California :
O'Reilly
[2005]
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| Edition: | First edition |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009627109106719 |
Table of Contents:
- Table of Contents; 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; Introduction to Digital Mapping; The Power of Digital Maps; The Difficulties of Making Maps; Personal Maps; Technology Barriers; Different Kinds of Web Mapping; Web Map Users; Web Sites with a Web Mapping Component; Behind the web page; Making your own web mapping site; Digital Mapping Tasks and Tools; Common Mapping Tasks; Common Pitfalls, Deadends, and Irritations
- Finding Good Source DataDependency on Digital Tools; Understanding Data Formats; Using the Right Tools; Identifying the Types of Tasks for a Project; Viewing and Mapping; Analysis; Creating and Manipulating; Conversion; Sharing; Converting and Viewing Maps; Raster and Vector; OpenEV; MapServer; Data Access and Performance; Portability; Geospatial Data Abstraction Library (GDAL); Raster Formats Supported by GDAL; Programming Libraries; GDAL Utilities; OGR Simple Features Library; Vector Formats Supported by OGR; OGR Utilities and Examples; PostGIS; GIS Analysis with SQL
- Summary of ApplicationsInstalling MapServer; How MapServer Applications Operate; Walkthrough of the Main Components; MapServer Executable; MapServer's Map File; Data Sources; Output Map Image; Installing MapServer; Platforms; Acquiring MapServer Binaries; Windows versions; Linux binaries; Linux GIS distributions; Linux RPM versions; Debian Linux versions; Mac OS X; Compiling MapServer Source Code; Downloading sources; Configuring sources; configure options; Dependencies; Making a compile; Installation; A quick test of the install; Getting Help; Acquiring Map Data; Appraising Your Data Needs
- Vector Maps or Raster Maps?What Kind of Vector Data Do You Require?; What Kind of Raster Data Do You Require?; What Scale of Map Do You Require?; Do You Need Three Dimensions?; Acquiring the Data You Need; Finding Premade Maps; Finding Satellite Images or Shaded Surface Maps; Finding Map Data; Analyzing Map Data; Downloading the Demonstration Data; Installing Data Management Tools: GDAL and FWTools; Examining Data Content; Viewing Summary Information About Airports; Viewing Detailed Airport Location Information; Viewing Statistics About a Satellite Image
- Summarizing Information Using Other ToolsSetting Up Processing Tools for Non-GNU Platforms; Using ogrinfo to List Data in a Shapefile; Using grep to Show Only the Names of the Airports; Using wc to Count the Number of Airport Names; Using sed to Find Specific Patterns in Airport Names; Use sed to Reformat Print Results; Using sed to Remove Lines and Trim the Front End of Lines; Using sort to Create a List of Ordered Elevations; Using uniq to Summarize Results of Duplicate Lines; Other Powerful Text-Processing Tools; Converting Map Data; Converting Map Data; Converting Vector Data
- Geography Markup Language (GML)
