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Multidimensional Geographic Information Science (Geographic Information Systems Workshop)
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by Jonathan Raper
Sales Rank: 2322592
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Paperback: 300 pages
Publisher: CRC; 1 edition November 23, 2000
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0748405070
ISBN-13: 978-0748405077
Product Dimensions:
9.2 x 6.2 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
Product Description
This text focuses on the ways in which GIS could be made multi dimensional, based on modelling limitations of current two-dimensional GIS. It suggests extending GIS to incorporate the third dimension 3D GIS as well as time spatio-temporal GIS, using a variety of programming techniques. This book represents late 1990s knowledge about 3D and 4D GIS.
Customer Reviews & Comments
This review is from: Multidimensional Geographic Information Science (Geographic Information Systems Workshop) (Hardcover)
With the incipient rise of the mobile web, this book describes potentially vast new applications for Geographic Information Systems. New cellphones now often have GIS locator capability builtin. Plus, we can easily imagine other mobile devices like laptops, PDAs and vehicles having GIS by default. Combine this with an ever-increasing pervasive web, as suggested by WiFi and next generation WiFi, and you can see the need for ever more GIS databases. Where these would have street information, for example. One future direction is in developing innovative ways to query the GIS data, and to hook it up to other databases, like weather maps. Thus far, GIS has existed for what will one day be seen as small, specialised applications, like oceanside and mining activities. In reality, the much larger markets exist in urban areas, where most people are. By checking out this book, you can get a feel for how these new applications might be developed.
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Multidimensional Geographic Information Science (Geographic Information Systems Workshop)
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