Title: Geographic Information Science and Systems Pdf
Author: Paul A. Longley
Published Date: 2015-03-09
Page: 477
Professor?Paul Longley, Department of Geography, University College London, UK. Professor Mike Goodchild, Department of Geography, University of California Santa Barbara, USA. Professor David Maguire, ESRI, Redlands, USA. Professor David Rhind, Vice Chancellor and Principle, City University,?London, UK.
Effective use of today’s vast geographic information (GI) resources requires more than just powerful technology for problem solving. It requires science to help us understand the way the world works, and to help us devise effective procedures for making decisions. Three previous editions have established this text as a defining multidisciplinary treatment of the scientific principles that underpin the use of geographic information technologies for problem solving. This extensively revised and updated edition provides a guide to the enduring scientific principles and information systems that support effective use of today’s GI. It also provides a primer on essential methods for analysis of GI, and the ways in which effective management of GI informs policy and action.
most of it is very tedious, unhelpful I used this book as a textbook for a intro-level GIS course offered at an R1 university. While it contains some of the basic ideas, most of it is very tedious, unhelpful, and repetitive, e.g. many sentences and paragraphs in many chapters describe how impressed the authors are with the technological advances offered by cell phones. A lot of unreflective philosophy of science jargon takes center stage instead of interesting conceptual discussions. This appears to be a poor 'how-to' book as well as a poor 'big ideas' book. Moreover, it is expensive. I would not recommend this as a textbook or a reference book.Good textbook I found this book to be a bit difficult to read through but overall it was an excellent textbook for my class. Good reference for GIS information.Lot of time spent on silliness What is it with some of these fields (disaster research is another good one) - they spend an inordinate amount of time gushing on and on about the 'fathers of the field' as if to suggest that no other humans alive could have done what they did. Don't get me wrong, the pioneers of this and other fields are remarkable people, but if I want to read a biography, I'll buy one. This book spends far too much time on the history of the field and too little on today's practical applications. It gets the job done, but you can tear a lot of pages out when you get it and it won't diminish your knowledge a hoot.
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