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Gis Fundamentals: A First Text on Geographic Information Systems Paperback – 30 June 2007
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- LanguageEnglish
- Publication date30 June 2007
- Dimensions25.15 x 17.53 x 4.06 cm
- ISBN-100971764727
- ISBN-13978-0971764729
Product details
- Language : English
- ISBN-10 : 0971764727
- ISBN-13 : 978-0971764729
- Dimensions : 25.15 x 17.53 x 4.06 cm
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About the author

Paul Bolstad is a Professor at the University of Minnesota, and has written seven editions of a widely-used GIS textbook, described at gisfundamentals.org. He has over 35 years teaching, researching, and applying GIS. He has over 100 publications in peer-reviewed research journals, with his work cited more than 15,000 times. His books have been used at over 450 colleges and universities, by more than 200,000 students, on four continents. He has directly taught more than 5,000 students in his university-level GIS courses. He wrote the first edition of GIS Fundamentals more than 20 years ago, motivated by the too-high price and incomplete coverage of GIS books then on the market. He discovered that a self-published, gray-scale paperback would be one-third the cost of a typical textbook, and has been gratified by the widespread adoption of his books. Additional book resources can be found at www.paulbolstad.net/gisbook.html
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The writing is very dense. And it isn't dense in a good way. The author will go over simple concepts in excruciating detail meanwhile glossing over more complicated material. I suppose it was written in this way to build a good foundation with the basics while touching upon more advanced concepts. In regards, to completing assignments though, I find myself going on the internet to clarify confusing concepts rather than using the book and often times I find contradictory information.
The figures in the book would be helpful if they had a bit more explanation in the narrative.
This book also suffers from poor editing. Charts and graphs use Comic San font (which isn't the most professional font out there and it has gained some chuckles from our classmates). There are many typos and the index might as well not exist. Instead of drudging through the dense material looking for a particular concept, I usually just turn onto the internet because the index is not helpful at all.
If you're new to GIS, this book might not be helpful. However, if you already have some background in programming this book may serve as a good reference. Otherwise, I would pass this text up.

