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Summary: The definitive guide
Review: I used it when I was a student at Ohio State. There is really no better book for learning the powerful program ArcView GIS. This book includes sample data and has the working software right on the CD so you don't need to even own ArcView to test it out. Has anyone read the new book from ESRI, Extending ArcView GIS?
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Summary: Deserves 2 or 3 stars, but Chapter 10 redeems the book...
Review: If you are just starting out with ArcView, this book would be helpful. I found it very simplistic, too simplistic. The book is not helpful as a reference to solving problems you encounter with the software. If you have used ArcView at all, you don't need this book.Chapter 10 is a tutorial using Marsabit, Kenya as the location. Marsabit is a very isolated area of Northern Kenya and an incredible place that I am glad I got to visit. I continue to pray that the Christians there continue to grow in Christ. What a joy to see it used in this text.
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Summary: Low Content Bloated book
Review: Once upon a time, there was only one arcview book out there, and this was it. At the time, it was invaluable.
Now there are much better books out there, and this one now stands out by the low content bloated presentation. You don't learn anything about principles of GIS, or strategies for information analysis. You only learn how to copycat step by step various exercises.
If you are a total computer novice and want hand holding, this is a successful book you will probably enjoy for awhile, until you start getting curious about doing real things with this program.
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Summary: About this book---
Review: This book is ideal for novice GIS user. The steps are clearly illustrated with nice pictures/maps. To optimize it, more experiments are desirable.
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Summary: About this book---
Review: This book is ideal for novice GIS user. The steps are clearly illustrated with nice pictures/maps. To optimize it, more experiments are desirable.
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Summary: Excellent introduction to Arcview
Review: This book is well written and organized and has served as a very useful reference for my work using it. The information on Arcview extensions is very useful in deciding which ones might be worth purchasing.
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Summary: Excellent introduction to Arcview
Review: This book is well written and organized and has served as a very useful reference for my work using it. The information on Arcview extensions is very useful in deciding which ones might be worth purchasing.
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Summary: A great help if you're studying GIS
Review: This book really helped me !! I'm currently doing a one-yar college program in GIS. For my project work I did some tranportation routing using ArcView Network Analyst, and even though this book does not cover that particular extension that much, it still provided a great help in understanding how to get the most out of ArcView, as a preparation for the analyses I ran. Step-by-step instructions followed by screen shots in color made the learning process really fun.
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Summary: Getting to Know ArcView
Review: This is another teaching book with a CD. The CD works well and does what it is supposed to do. Although the cover says the CD is a trial version of ArcView. That is just a lie. The CD contains a special version of ArcView that works only with the exercises. The book spends too much time introducing itself. It is itself an introduction but the first 100 or so pages are spent saying what they resay in the remaining chapters; and with terms the novice will probably not understand at first. I found that the book had a hard time begining, kept thinking, "When are they going to get to the point?" Would like to see more about how to convert raw data to a file that can displayed; it finally came in chapter in 25 but only briefly.
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Summary: Are you beyond the basics of GIS?
Review: While this book is a helpful guide for those people who are just learning GIS, it does not reveal 'tricks of the trade' for more experienced users. The reader is taken step-by-step through each lesson plan and each page is filled with helpful diagrams, but I found it wasn't quite challanging enough. If you are beyond the basics, this book is not for you.
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