Computer-mediated participation is at the crossroads. In the early heady days of the digital revolution, access to "high" technologies such as GIS promised the empowerment of marginalized communities by providing data and information that was previously hidden away from public view. To a great extent, this goal has been achieved at...

This book deals with spatial analysis and modelling. It provides a comprehensive discussion of spatial analysis, methods, and approaches related to...

• Use Python and QGIS to create and transform data, produce appealing GIS visualizations, and build complex map layouts
• Learn undocumented features of the new QGIS...

• Construct applications for GIS development by exploiting Python
• This focuses on built-in Python modules and libraries compatible with the Python Packaging Index distribution...

• Develop ArcGIS Server applications with JavaScript, both for traditional web...

• Configure ArcGIS for Server to achieve maximum performance and response time
• Understand the product mechanics to build up good troubleshooting skills
• Filled with...

When used together effectively, computer-aided design (CAD) and geospatial information systems (GIS) have a solid track record for streamlining decision making and reducing inefficiencies in the design, planning, and execution of critical operations and projects. And a growing number of engineering tasks in numerous fields—including...

• assume you are familiar with the fundamentals of GIS and have a basic knowledge of ArcGIS. If  you are new to GIS or ArcMap, you are encouraged to take some...

"Spatial Databases covers all of the major themes of the field -- representation, query languages, computational geometry, spatial indexing -- using geographic information systems as the principal application domain and motivation. It is an excellent introduction for computer science professionals interested in exploring GIS, and an...

The availability of geographic and geo-spatial information and services, especially on the openWeb, has become abundant in the last several yearswith the proliferation of online maps, geo-coding services, geospatial Web services and geospatially enabled applications. Concurrently, the need for geo-spatial reasoning has significantly...

Advanced visual analysis and problem solving has been conducted successfully for millennia. The Pythagorean Theorem was proven using visual means more than 2000 years ago. In the 19th century, John Snow stopped a cholera epidemic in London by proposing that a specific water pump be shut down. He discovered that pump by visually correlating...