Synopses & Reviews
This book helps you understand and use Web GIS, a powerful mapping technology that is transforming the way we apply and share geographic information. Each "big idea" is part of the ArcGIS platform and it's big because it empowers you, enabling you to do new things and to accomplish familiar tasks more quickly and with ease.
This is a hands-on book that you work with as much as read. By the end, using Learn ArcGIS lessons, you'll be able to say you made a story map, conducted geographic analysis, edited geographic data, worked in a 3D web scene, built a 3D model of Venice, and more.
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Synopsis
This is a hands-on book about ArcGIS that you work with as much as read. By the end, using Learn ArcGIS lessons, you'll be able to say you made a story map, conducted geographic analysis, edited geographic data, worked in a 3D web scene, built a 3D model of Venice, and more.
About the Author
Christian Harder is a writer at Esri and author of Understanding GIS: An ArcGIS Project Workbook Esri Press, 2013, as well as number of other books on GIS. Harder is also the founder and former manager of Esri Press.
Table of Contents
Introduction
How this book works
Chapter 1
Maps, the Web, and You: Power and possibility with Web GIS
Chapter 2
Cartography is for Everyone: New ways to make, see, and use maps
Chapter 3
Tell Your Story Using a Map: Inform, engage, and inspire people with story maps
Chapter 4
Great Maps Need Great Data: Creating and using authoritative geographic data
Chapter 5
The Importance of Where: How spatial analysis leads to insight
Chapter 6
Mapping the Third Dimension: A change in perspective
Chapter 7
The Power of Apps: Focused tools that get work done
Chapter 8
Your Mobile GIS: The GIS of the whole world plus a live data sensor in your pocket
Chapter 9
Real-Time Dashboards: Integrating live data feeds for managing operations
Chapter 10
GIS is Social: Web GIS is the GIS of the world
Resources for further study
Contributors and acknowledgments
Credits