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Sales Rank: 21600
Category: Book
Author: Michael Zeiler
Publisher: ESRI Press
Studio: ESRI Press
Manufacturer: ESRI Press
Label: ESRI Press
Format: Illustrated
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 200
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 7.5 x 0.6
ISBN: 1879102625
Dewey Decimal Number: 004
EAN: 9781879102620
ASIN: 1879102625
Publication Date: January 1, 2000
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Product Description
This conceptual overview introduces and explains the concept of geodatabases-object-oriented data models-which are introduced in ArcInfo 8, the world's most advanced Geographic Information System (GIS) software package. Included are explanations of what models are and how they represent reality, how GIS data is structured in digital form, extending the power of databases, and making models of everything from streams to electrical power grids. Users will be able to make their datasets "smarter" by defining the relationships between them and endowing them with specific behaviors. These new characteristics are explained and highlighted with hundreds of map illustrations and diagrams.
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Classic Textbook December 8, 2008
This is the book you need if you want to understand the WHY behind the HOW. It is especially insightful when trying to wrap your brain around what each TOPOLOGICAL realtionship looks like.
It is a little dry and theorhetical, but very extensive and from a classroom standpoint is a MUST in my mind.
ESRI Geodatabase design concepts November 21, 2005
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
This book gives an overview of the geodatabase CONCEPTS in ESRI's ArcGIS 8.3 and above. This is not a "how-to" guide, but introduces geodatabases and the ubiquitous Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams. Readers are at least introduced to the functionality and displays in ArcCatalog and layers. For those just used to simple maps, the concepts of surface modeling with triangulated irregular networks (TIN), geographic networks and flow, and raster data sets were introduced.
For one coming to the geographic databases by way of traditional databases, the concepts of adding attributes to relationships may have been too lightly covered. Additionally the concepts of subtypes (versus attribute domains) to define behavior to different classification of your data was new and useful. The topological operators are introduced, but the rich set of topological rules is barely introduced. Although ArcGis map versioning and workflow some of the concepts of enterprise GIS (as manifest in ArcIMS products and SDE) were not introduced.
Those desiring a how-to guide, would be well served after reading this book to take the ESRI online class "Creating, Editing, and Managing Geodatabases for ArcGIS 9" which has exercises and examples.
 as described October 3, 2005
0 out of 13 found this review helpful
product was exactly what I ordered in excellent condition at a very good price.
layers is a key idea September 30, 2005
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Zeiler conveys a good sense of the ever increasing diversity of GIS usage. He writes for someone who is putting together a geographic database. From his experience, he gives many practical suggestions, spanning frequently occurring issues.
A major idea is that a map has layers. A layer might have data of raster images, or annotations, or lines. Plus, a layer might be a group of layers. Photoshop users will recognise these ideas. But GIS takes them much further. The amount and types of GIS data are often far more than any fancy Photoshop image.
It is a reference. July 13, 2004
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
If you want to learn this much GIS terminology, you have to read hundereds of pages of ESRI's guide or reference books. This is an excellent reference in GIS literature that introduces hundereds of terms in a reasonable size and good price. The author went to the very corners of GIS-data-base structure. For any GIS-term you can find an illustration and explanation. The text is clearly written by an ArcInfo User that is some how "heavy". However,as an ArcGIS/ArcView user it was useful for me. The book title is somehow misleading at the first glance, but when you go inside, you can see no other title can fit this topic. BUY IT, if you want to know the GIS terminology to the extreme details, including backgrounds, comparative explanations and so on. DON'T BUY IT, if you want to do GIS modelling buy reading this book, as the text is mostly concentrates on data base.
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