GIS for Web Developers: Adding 'Where' to Your Web Applications

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GIS for Web Developers: Adding 'Where' to Your Web Applications

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Description

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.
GIS for Web Developers introduces Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
in simple terms and demonstrates hands-on uses. With this book, you'll explore
popular websites like maps.google.com, see the technologies they use, and
learn how to create your own. Written with the usual Pragmatic Bookshelf humor
and real-world experience, GIS for Web Developers makes geographic programming
concepts accessible to the common developer.
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.
You'll learn how to find the vast amounts of free geographic data
that's out there and how to bring it all together. Although this data is free,
it's scattered across the web on a variety of different sites, in a variety of
incompatible formats. You'll see how to convert it among several popular
formats⎯including plain text, ESRI Shapefiles, and Geography Markup Language
(GML).
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: