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OpenLayers Cookbook
Packt Publishing 2012; US$ 26.99Over 60 recipes to create GIS web applications with the open source JavaScript library more...
Data Points
Wiley 2013; US$ 39.99A fresh look at visualization from the author of Visualize This Whether it's statistical charts, geographic maps, or the snappy graphical statistics you see on your favorite news sites, the art of data graphics or visualization is fast becoming a movement of its own. In Data Points: Visualization That Means Something , author Nathan Yau presents... more...
Archaeology and Geoinformatics
University of Alabama Press 2009; US$ 34.95Addressing the use of geoinformatics in Caribbean archaeology, this volume is based on case studies drawn from specific island territories, namely, Barbados, St. John, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Nevis, St. Eustatius, and Trinidad and Tobago, as well as inter-island interaction and landscape conceptualization in the Caribbean region. Geoinformatics is especially... more...
Urban and Regional Data Management
CRC Press 2009; US$ 219.95Covers key themes including 3D modelling, Spatial Data Infrastructures and databases, Risk and Disaster management, Environmental planning, analysis and e-government, and Traffic and road monitoring. more...
Mapping Hacks
O'Reilly Media 2005; US$ 23.99Since the dawn of creation, man has designed maps to help identify the space that we occupy. From Lewis and Clark's pencil-sketched maps of mountain trails to Jacques Cousteau's sophisticated charts of the ocean floor, creating maps of the utmost precision has been a constant pursuit. So why should things change now? Well, they shouldn't. The... more...
GIS, Environmental Modeling and Engineering
CRC Press 2009; US$ 107.95Explores how to use GIS and external models to solve real environmental problems. This text defines GIS, identifies how data is structured, and explains common functionality. It provides case studies and covers issues such as interoperability, data quality, model validity, space-time dynamics, and decision-support systems. more...
HTML5 Geolocation
O'Reilly Media 2011; US$ 12.99Truly revolutionary: now you can write geolocation applications directly in the browser, rather than develop native apps for particular devices. This concise book demonstrates the W3C Geolocation API in action, with code and examples to help you build HTML5 apps using the "write once, deploy everywhere" model. Along the way, you get a crash course... more...
Mapping China and Managing the World
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 53.95From the founding of the Qin dynasty in 221 BCE to the present, the Chinese have been preoccupied with the notion of ordering their world. Efforts to create and maintain order are expressed not only in China?s bureaucratic institutions and methods of social and economic organization but also in Chinese philosophy, religious and secular ritual, and... more...
Web Mapping Illustrated
O'Reilly Media 2008; US$ 39.99With the help of the Internet and accompanying tools, creating and publishing online maps has become easier and rich with options. A city guide web site can use maps to show the location of restaurants, museums, and art venues. A business can post a map for reaching its offices. The state government can present a map showing average income by area.... more...
Terra Australis: Text Classics
The Text Publishing Company 2012; US$ 3.99In this edited selection of his journals, Matthew Flinders, Australiaâ??s greatest navigator and the man who named our island continent, describes in captivating detail his epic mission to map our shores between 1796 and 1803. more...









