Fwd: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Reference Books

[Geo Aspects Dev]

> +1 on Web Mapping Illustrated. I can also thoroughly recommend the  
> The Mapping Hacks book (www.mappinghacks.com) as a general GIS/Web  
> Mapping introduction
>
> Tim
> Geo Aspects
>
>
> On 13 Feb 2007, at 01:50, Tim Bowden wrote:
>
>> 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
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