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Desktop GIS: Mapping the Planet with Open Source Tools (2008)
By Gary Sherman
This book will give you an understanding of the Open Source GIS
landscape, along with a detailed look at the major desktop
applications, including GRASS, Quantum GIS, uDig, spatial databases,
GMT, and other command line tools.
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The Green Guide to Power: Thinking Outside the Grid
(2008)
By Ron Bowman
The immediacy of the energy challenge is finding all of us. The
inability to access reliable, cost effective and carbon neutral power
is affecting individuals, businesses and the planet at large.
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By Eric W. Sanderson, Markley Boyer
This book recreates the ecology of Manhattan as it was that 1609 September
afternoon when Henry Hudson first saw it, "prodigious in its abundance,
resplendent in its diversity."
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The 2009 ESRI International User Conference took place in San Diego,
Calif., from July 13-17. This year's event attracted more than 12,000
people this year, with the theme, "GIS: Designing Our Future".
Sustainability was again a strong theme in the plenary session as well
as throughout the conference program.
The annual Geoinformatics Forum Salzburg (GI Forum 2009) was held at
University Salzburg in Austria July 7 - 10. About 1000 people attended
the English speaking event which is combined with the Deutsche language
AGIT 2009 event. GI Forum is a GIScience focused event with a strong
educational component and AGIT is oriented around applications
involving new discovery, research and education involving geoinformatic
related technologies.
The concept of the GeoWeb has been gaining ground for some time, but
the full vision is only just beginning to be addressed. V1 editor Matt
Ball spoke with Ron Lake, founder and president of Galdos Systems, and
creator of the GeoWeb Conference, about the current status of the
GeoWeb, and priorities for current development efforts.
New tools for modelling infrastructure design are helping to create
high quality results while decreasing design and modelling costs. Mark
Paraskeva was recently appointed Vice-President of Europe, Middle East,
India and Africa (EMIA) for Autodesk. New development and
re-development in these regions is contributing significantly to
company revenue and several new products are contributing to this
growth and solving project needs. V1 Magazine editor Jeff Thurston
interviewed Mark Paraskeva about his new position, the growth in these
regions, the products and some of the challenges in the future.
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