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GIS for Everyone : Exploring Your Neighborhood and Your World with a Geographic Information System
Author: Davis, David E.
Cover: cover
Pages: 156
List Price: $19.95
Published by ESRI Press
Date Published: 07/1999
ISBN: 1879102498
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No matter who you are or what you do, you will find this book to be all you need to discover the fast-growing world of geographic information system (GIS) technology. Everything you need to get started is included.
- More than 500 MB of detailed GIS data covering the entire planet
- A full working version of ArcExplorer software, the most widely used geographic data viewer
- Valuable geographic data for a ZIP Code of your choice
- Tutorial exercises
- Map gallery
In GIS For Everyone, you'll learn how digital maps are "smarter" than paper maps and just how much they can tell you about your world--its physical environment, man-made infrastructure, demographics, and political makeup, to mention only a few. You'll load geographic data from the companion CD and from the Internet. Within minutes, you'll be able to create attractive and accurate digital maps that you can print, embed in documents, E-mail, or publish on the World Wide Web.
Some of the explorations include:
- San Diego, California
- Washington, D.C.
- Rio de Janeiro, Prague, and New York City
- Austin, Texas
- A ZIP Code of your choice
- Sydney, Australia
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