Gis Fundamentals: A First Text on Geographic Information Systems.

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Eider Press, Jul 30, 2005 - Science - 539 pages
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A excellent source for begining geographers who will be using GIS. I took this class previously where they did not assign any text, but the class with text was infinetely better since it does an ... Read full review

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Bolstad's "GIS Fundamentals" was my very first exposure to GIS. As a computer science major and someone generally interested in the math behind these sort of things, I thought it was a great introduction to GIS. It was certainly a bit dry at points, and some sections (particularly some of the database stuff) were too simplified. Besides some typos, it was a fairly good read. It is an easy book to just pick up and read without much prior knowledge. Some of the technology stuff is out of date, but he's mostly spot-on with his predictions! 

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Introduction
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GIS Components
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Data Models
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TitleGis Fundamentals: A First Text on Geographic Information Systems.
AuthorPaul Bolstad
Edition2
PublisherEider Press, 2005
Original fromCornell University
DigitizedJun 25, 2009
ISBN0971764719, 9780971764712
Length539 pages
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