ArcView GIS Exercise Book

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Summary: An interesting exersize
Review: ArcView Gis Exercise Book appears to be a valuable tool. It is a tutorial based on data included on on a CD. Persons interested in this book and accompanying CD should be aware that running the tutorial requires alteration to the autoexec.bat file, knowledge of DOS commands, and a fair amount of time and patience when attempting to open a project. A stream of queries regarding locations of files can take up to 30 minutes in an attempt to open a project to begin a particular tutorial. Default settings for ArcView startup will be changed with the modifications required.

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Summary: From "AV Extension," vol. 0, no. 3, October 1997:
Review: By Alice Doyle, Vermont Center for Geographic Information.

Although in general [the exercise] build on skills gained in previous
chapters, any of the exercises could readily be used on their
own to learn a particular ArcView functionality. It could be
equally useful as a reference book...Worthwhile Tips, Notes, and
Warnings are also scattered through the book. The prepared
project files on the CD make it very easy to do
the exercises quickly and easily, plus the results are included
on the CD in case you get stuck.

I would highly recommend this book to the ArcView and/or GIS novice.
It seems particularly appropriate for that audience because of the progression
of the material, from overview of ArcView components, to working
with basic functionality, to much more advanced analysis. Each topic
is covered thoroughly for complete understanding of the section, and
the user can move through it at their own pace and schedule.

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Summary: Great Book - better than ESRI books
Review: Great way to learn AV3 - better than Getting to Know Arcview

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Summary: I really look forward to reading it-it's unvailable in China
Review: I think many people here want to read it because GIS and Arcview are new for us, however it will be very popular! When can I have the opportunity?

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Summary: Jahangeer Basha Shaik
Review: It's an extremely good book for the beginners as well as experienced ones. It gives the step by step procedures and one doesn't need to know anything at all to read through this book. It gives you more knowledge than you expect of it without a doubt.

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Summary: More user-friendly than "Inside ArcView GIS"
Review: The book goes beyond "Getting to know ArcView" and includes the important tools someone needs to begin to take advantage of AV 3.x. I wish the book, or an associated one,would get into the extensions and more powerful uses of the software.

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Summary: More user-friendly than "Inside ArcView GIS"
Review: The book goes beyond "Getting to know ArcView" and includes the important tools someone needs to begin to take advantage of AV 3.x. I wish the book, or an associated one,would get into the extensions and more powerful uses of the software.

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Summary: Written for individuals or classroom environment
Review: The exercises use real data in the context of real applications. They're written for self study or classroom use. It starts you off at the beginning, but takes you into advanced topics including some scripts, changing the GUI, and deploying end-user applications. We hope you enjoy it.

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Summary: On contents
Review: Written to ArcView GIS (ArcView 3.x), provides hands-on experience
in fundamental to sophisticated functionality in ArcView, ESRI's desktop
geographic information systems software. Early chapters focus on the
basic tools and functions of ArcView document types. Subsequent
chapters highlight advanced analysis and functions in the context
of real world applications. The final series of exercises culminates in the
deployment of a custom end user application complete with a
custom user interface.

Principal audience: Computer users with little or no experience in
ArcView GIS or other GIS software.

CONTENTS

Introduction
Chapter 1: Exploring the ArcView Interface
Chapter 2: Working with Views and Themes
Chapter 3: Working with Tables and Charts
Chapter 4: Symbology and Layouts
Chapter 5: Theme-on-Theme Selection
Chapter 6: Data Preparation for Trade Area Analysis
Chapter 7: Trade Area Analysis
Chapter 8: Site Selection
Chapter 9: Proximity Analysis
Chapter 10: Geocoding
Chapter 11: Spatial and Aspatial Queries
Chapter 12: Hot Links
Chapter 13: Application Deployment
Chapter 14: Network Analyst Extension
Chapter 15: Spatial Analyst

Glossary
Functionality Quick Reference
Index