GIS for Web Developers: Adding Where to Your Web Applications (2007)(en)(254s)

Scott Davis9780974514093, 0974514098

With this book readers can become real geographic programmers using the Java programming language. They will find working code examples in Java using some of the many GIS-oriented applications and APIs, and be able to display GIS data on the Web, manipulate GIS data, and programmatically store and retrieve it in geographically enabled databases.

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Table of contents :
Contents……Page 7
Preface……Page 10
Acknowledgments……Page 11
Demystifying GIS……Page 13
Finding Free Data Sources and Applications……Page 14
What Are You Getting Yourself Into?……Page 16
Raw Materials……Page 19
Raster Data……Page 20
Types of Vector Data……Page 24
What Data Is Available?……Page 29
Know Your File Formats……Page 31
The Downloadable States of America……Page 32
Downloading a Viewer……Page 34
Styling Your Layers……Page 37
Viewing Multiple Basemap Layers……Page 38
More International Data, Please……Page 40
When Good Data Goes Bad……Page 41
Saving Your Map in ArcExplorer……Page 42
Conclusion……Page 44
The Round Earth……Page 45
Cartesian Planes……Page 48
What Is a Projection?……Page 52
Changing Projections in ArcExplorer……Page 54
What Does Round Really Mean, Anyway?……Page 55
Coordinate Reference Systems……Page 57
Getting Your Data Layers Aligned……Page 65
Reprojection Utilities……Page 67
Conclusion……Page 70
Getting Started with Raster Data……Page 71
Terraserver-USA: Another Source of Free Raster Imagery……Page 74
Mosaics and Tessellation……Page 76
Temporal Analysis……Page 78
Panchromatic vs. Multispectral……Page 81
Scale and Resolution……Page 86
Orthorectification……Page 90
Downloading Free Rasters……Page 93
Conclusion……Page 106
Why Bother with a Spatial Database?……Page 108
Installing PostgreSQL and PostGIS……Page 109
Adding Spatial Fields……Page 111
Inserting Spatial Data……Page 117
Querying Spatial Data……Page 118
Introspection of Spatial Data……Page 119
Importing Data……Page 121
Manipulating Data……Page 122
Exporting Data……Page 123
Indexing Data……Page 126
Spatial Queries……Page 128
Visualizing Data……Page 132
Conclusion……Page 133
Sharing the Wealth……Page 134
OGC SOA for GIS……Page 135
Installing GeoServer……Page 137
Adding Shapefiles Using the GUI……Page 139
Adding Shapefiles Manually……Page 143
Adding PostGIS Layers……Page 148
Styling with SLD……Page 151
Conclusion……Page 156
Understanding WMS……Page 157
WMS GetCapabilities……Page 158
WMS GetMap……Page 164
Understanding WFS……Page 165
WFS GetCapabilities……Page 166
WFS DescribeFeatureType……Page 169
WFS GetFeature……Page 170
Filtering WFS GetFeature Requests……Page 171
Conclusion……Page 177
Mapbuilder……Page 179
OpenLayers……Page 190
uDig……Page 199
Conclusion……Page 201
From CSV to SQL……Page 202
Geocoding Your Data……Page 215
Adding PostGIS Fields……Page 223
Setting Up OGC Services……Page 226
Tiling vs. Styling……Page 229
Creating a Slippy Map……Page 233
Beyond the Web: 3D Viewers……Page 237
Conclusion……Page 242
Installing GDAL/Proj/Geos……Page 243
Installing PostgreSQL and PostGIS……Page 245
LibTIFF and LibGeoTIFF……Page 248
Unix, Linux, and Mac OS X……Page 249
Windows……Page 250
D……Page 253
G……Page 254
I……Page 255
M……Page 256
O……Page 257
R……Page 258
U……Page 259
W……Page 260
Y……Page 262