GIS for Web Developers: Adding 'Where' to Your Web Applications (Paperback)

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:

描述

地理學正在從小眾領域走向主流，這是一場隱藏的革命。新聞報導中經常包含地圖和衛星圖像。越來越多的設備，如手機、汽車、電腦，現在都包含全球定位系統（GPS）接收器。許多主要的數據庫供應商已將地理數據類型納入其旗艦產品的標準。

《GIS for Web Developers》以簡單的術語介紹地理信息系統（GIS），並演示實際應用。通過這本書，您將探索像maps.google.com這樣的熱門網站，了解它們使用的技術，並學習如何創建自己的網站。這本書以Pragmatic Bookshelf一貫的幽默風格和實際經驗撰寫，使地理編程概念對普通開發人員易於理解。

這本書將揭開GIS的神秘面紗，並向您展示如何讓GIS為您工作。您將學習行業術語，並探索將自己的應用程序地理化的方法。GIS並不是一個基本困難的領域，但由於行業術語的存在，進入門檻較高。這本書將向您展示如何成為一名地理學家，並掌握相應的專業術語。

您將學習如何找到大量免費的地理數據，以及如何將它們整合在一起。儘管這些數據是免費的，但它們分散在網絡上的各種不同網站上，並以各種不兼容的格式存在。您將了解如何在幾種流行格式之間進行轉換，包括純文本、ESRI Shapefiles和地理標記語言（GML）。

有了這本書，您將成為一名真正的地理編程人員，使用Java編程語言。您將在Java中找到許多實際的代碼示例，使用許多面向GIS的應用程序和API。您將能夠：