Reference Books

[Tim Bowden]

On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 15:17 -0600, Matt Pettis wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I bought Beginning MapServer - Open Source GIS Development (Bill
> Kropla, ISBN 1-59059-490-8).  I liked its strucutre and examples.  It
> starts with a chapter on how to build it (on Linux systems), gives a
> very simple mapfile example, and then does a very complex mapping
> example, which it redoes it in the different mapscript languages (php,
> python, and perl... includes the mapscript and web code it uses) --
> the redundancy of which is pretty helpful.  It also addresses how to
> do map queries, which looks good, but i haven't used yet, so I'm not
> so familiar, and different utility programs for map data.  It includes
> a mapfile reference in the appendix.
>  
> In short, I like it, and refer to it when working on my web mapping
> application.
>  
> Web Mapping Illustrated (OReilly, I forget the author) is a great book
> on maptools, and has a good deal on mapserver, but also covers other
> open source mapping tools.  If you are looking for something focused
> on mapserver itself, however, I recommend the Kropla book.
>  
> hope this helps,
> matt
> 

Web Mapping Illustrated- Author is Tyler Mitchel, who is now the
Executive Director of OSGeo.  I've got it and I've found it very useful.
I haven't see Bill Kropla's book so I can't make a comparison, but I'm
happy with Tylers book.

HTH,
Tim Bowden