Serving Maps on the Internet: Geographic Information on the World Wide Web

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Summary: Don't bother
Review: ESRI is great at milking profit from nothing, and this book is a prime example. The "Internet" reference on the cover refers to the Web components of any typical GIS (read: ESRI) app, which are mostly secondary afterthoughts. None of the examples have any thoughtful insight into how GIS and the Internet can be combined to produce a sum greater than their parts. Just print a map to PDF, put it on a web sight, and you're "serving maps on the internet"! How enlightening.

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Summary: a good book
Review: I think is a good book. in China we have some GIS online, but this book help me show how to domore.

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Summary: Expensive price for an advert !
Review: If the technology is certainly interesting and full of promises, the book is not. It contains only basic information on ESRI's products and a CD with demos that you can find on the ESRI web pages. ESRI's white papers offer much more material for free. Last but not least, this emerging technology is changing constantly and the book is already outdated in many point of views. Don't bother buying it and spend more time reading online GIS magazine which will keep you informed every day about new web mapping sites. And yes, there are other GIS developers than ESRI...