GIS for Web Developers Adding 'Where' to Your Web Applications Paperback - 2007 - 1st Edition

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There is a hidden revolution going on: geography is moving from niche to the mainstream. News reports routinely include maps and satellite images. More and more pieces of equipment cell phones, cars, computers now contain Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers. Many of the major database vendors have made geographic data types standard in their flagship products.

This book will demystify GIS and show you how to make GIS work for you. You'll learn the buzzwords and explore ways to geographically-enable your own applications. GIS is not a fundamentally difficult domain, but there is a barrier to entry because of the industry jargon. This book will show you how to "walk the walk" and "talk the talk" of a geographer.

With this book in hand, you'll become a real geographic programmer using the Java programming language. You'll find plenty of working code examples in Java using some of the many GIS-oriented applications and APIs. You'll be able to: Find free sources of GIS data on the webBrowse GIS data using open source desktop viewersManipulate GIS data programmaticallyStore and retrieve data using geographically-enabled databasesExplore free web toolkits like Google MapsPublish and consume web services using Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) interfaces