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Book:		Web Mapping Illustrated
Subject:		The difinitive guide to Open Source Web Mapping
Date:		2005-07-10 22:19:54
From:		Joel Dudley
Rating:  I'm amazed how a book containing so much information can be read so quickly. The author does an amazing job of demistifying the dynamic worlds of GIS and Web Mapping from an Open Source (OS) perspective. The chapters are well organized, allowing the reader to go from a GIS novice to a developer of large-scale MapServer GIS implementations with relative ease. The book is full of beautiful, full-color example maps and software screenshots. A reader of this book will not only have an understanding of the OS software tools used in the GIS community, but also the fundamental geographical concepts on which the GIS tools are based. After banging my head against the wall on a relatively simple mapping project this book was a godsend. There is literally nothing like it on or offline.

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"If you want to create and edit personal map data...convert map data from one format to another...[or] do anything with maps stored in digital format, this is the book to have."
--Major Keary, PC Update