GIS for Web Developers: Adding 'Where' to Your Web Applications

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Author(s): Scott Davis
Edition: 1
Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf
Year: 2007

Language: English
Pages: 258

Contents......Page 3
Preface......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 7
Demystifying GIS......Page 9
Finding Free Data Sources and Applications......Page 10
What Are You Getting Yourself Into?......Page 12
Raw Materials......Page 15
Raster Data......Page 16
Types of Vector Data......Page 20
What Data Is Available?......Page 25
Know Your File Formats......Page 27
The Downloadable States of America......Page 28
Downloading a Viewer......Page 30
Styling Your Layers......Page 33
Viewing Multiple Basemap Layers......Page 34
More International Data, Please......Page 36
When Good Data Goes Bad......Page 37
Saving Your Map in ArcExplorer......Page 38
Conclusion......Page 40
The Round Earth......Page 41
Cartesian Planes......Page 44
What Is a Projection?......Page 48
Changing Projections in ArcExplorer......Page 50
What Does Round Really Mean, Anyway?......Page 51
Coordinate Reference Systems......Page 53
Getting Your Data Layers Aligned......Page 61
Reprojection Utilities......Page 63
Conclusion......Page 66
Getting Started with Raster Data......Page 67
Terraserver-USA: Another Source of Free Raster Imagery......Page 70
Mosaics and Tessellation......Page 72
Temporal Analysis......Page 74
Panchromatic vs. Multispectral......Page 77
Scale and Resolution......Page 82
Orthorectification......Page 86
Downloading Free Rasters......Page 89
Conclusion......Page 102
Why Bother with a Spatial Database?......Page 104
Installing PostgreSQL and PostGIS......Page 105
Adding Spatial Fields......Page 107
Inserting Spatial Data......Page 113
Querying Spatial Data......Page 114
Introspection of Spatial Data......Page 115
Importing Data......Page 117
Manipulating Data......Page 118
Exporting Data......Page 119
Indexing Data......Page 122
Spatial Queries......Page 124
Visualizing Data......Page 128
Conclusion......Page 129
Sharing the Wealth......Page 130
OGC SOA for GIS......Page 131
Installing GeoServer......Page 133
Adding Shapefiles Using the GUI......Page 135
Adding Shapefiles Manually......Page 139
Adding PostGIS Layers......Page 144
Styling with SLD......Page 147
Conclusion......Page 152
Understanding WMS......Page 153
WMS GetCapabilities......Page 154
WMS GetMap......Page 160
Understanding WFS......Page 161
WFS GetCapabilities......Page 162
WFS DescribeFeatureType......Page 165
WFS GetFeature......Page 166
Filtering WFS GetFeature Requests......Page 167
Conclusion......Page 173
Mapbuilder......Page 175
OpenLayers......Page 186
uDig......Page 195
Conclusion......Page 197
From CSV to SQL......Page 198
Geocoding Your Data......Page 211
Adding PostGIS Fields......Page 219
Setting Up OGC Services......Page 222
Tiling vs. Styling......Page 225
Creating a Slippy Map......Page 229
Beyond the Web: 3D Viewers......Page 233
Conclusion......Page 238
Installing GDAL/Proj/Geos......Page 239
Installing PostgreSQL and PostGIS......Page 241
LibTIFF and LibGeoTIFF......Page 244
Unix, Linux, and Mac OS X......Page 245
Windows......Page 246
D......Page 249
G......Page 250
I......Page 251
M......Page 252
O......Page 253
R......Page 254
U......Page 255
W......Page 256
Y......Page 258