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Summary: An excellent book for learning ArcView's extensions
Review: As a graduate student in the University of Florida's Urban and Regional Planning Department. I've been fortunate enough to take a lot of GIS courses at the GeoPlan Center (www.geoplan.ufl.edu). This book, Extending ArcView GIS, has helped me reach my full potential in my courses.
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Summary: for power users of ArcView
Review: ESRI Press seems to be taking their book publishing program very seriously. This is an impressive volume. I work for the USGS and found the section on the Spatial Analyst to the most well-written description of this highly complicated program to be quite useful. The section on Network Analyst is not quite as strong, but thhen again the Netwwork Analyst is an easier program to learn. I wish they would do booik like this for ArcInfo 8.
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Summary: Very useful introduction to ArcView extensions
Review: I agree that this book is best purchased as a tutorial, not a manual. It is an excellent tutorial - easy to understand, with very useful and realistic examples. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn about these extensions. Unlike a previous reviewer, I had no problems with the 120 day trial versions of the extensions software. I have ArcView 3.2 and operate on Windows 98. I don't believe they are compatible with Windows 2000 or XP, as I tried to install network analyst first on an XP machine and got an error message that the network analyst (at least this particular trial version) was not compatible with Windows 2000, and I didn't try the others after that.
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Summary: Dr.FAD
Review: The authors are professionals both in GIS and teaching. I enjoyed the text so much. The examples are very well designed.The problem is the extensions that did not work on my PC-may be due to windows XP, so I used my original extensions.
One good thing in this book is the explanation of the other extensions-in brief ,of course.
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Summary: Now incvludes working software
Review: The book Extending ArcView GIS now includes fully-functional trial versions of all three extensions featured in the book as well as the exercise data. The trial versions of Network Analyst, ArcView Spatial Analyst, and 3D Analyst are good for 120 days from installation, and each can be installed separately, giving you ample time to complete the exercises in each section of the book.All you need to get full value from this book is a licensed commercial copy of ArcView GIS version 3.1. Everything else-the exercises, the spatial data, and now the trial software-is included. And even though we've just added a year's worth of free ESRI software (3 extensions x 120 days each), the price of the book hasn't changed. Note: Anyone who already has this book and would like the updated CD-ROM can send an e-mail request directly to esripress@esri.com.
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Summary: decent intro to the extentions
Review: The Spatial Analyst Portion was very useful. I don't use network analyst. Could be a little more indepth with the 3D Analyst portion. All in all, a very useful book.
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Summary: Very useful introduction to ArcView extensions
Review: This book is actually better with explanations than the manual that comes with ArcView. The tutorials for using the extensions are good. My problem with the book is the disk that comes with it (and you really need a copy of the extensions to really learn them). The disk supposedly contains extension trials - 120 days for each of the three extensions. Trouble is none of them worked! The Network Analyst and the Spatial Analyst wouldn't load completely. And the 3D Analyst caused a fatal error, and shut down the program. So, the book is good - maybe worth the price. Maybe. However, the "free disk trial" is lousy.
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Summary: ArcView Extensions - book good, disk bad
Review: This book is actually better with explanations than the manual that comes with ArcView. The tutorials for using the extensions are good. My problem with the book is the disk that comes with it (and you really need a copy of the extensions to really learn them). The disk supposedly contains extension trials - 120 days for each of the three extensions. Trouble is none of them worked! The Network Analyst and the Spatial Analyst wouldn't load completely. And the 3D Analyst caused a fatal error, and shut down the program. So, the book is good - maybe worth the price. Maybe. However, the "free disk trial" is lousy.
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Summary: for power users of ArcView
Review: This book is not so much a manual as it is a tutorial. I found it useful because I learn best from example. You are walked through various exercises that teach you the basics of each extension. If you are looking for a quick-fix manual, this is not it, however if you are looking to understand how these extensions work and the potential available to a GIS user, this book is for you.
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Summary: Use as a tutorial
Review: This book is not so much a manual as it is a tutorial. I found it useful because I learn best from example. You are walked through various exercises that teach you the basics of each extension. If you are looking for a quick-fix manual, this is not it, however if you are looking to understand how these extensions work and the potential available to a GIS user, this book is for you.
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