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Introduction to Geographic Information Systems with Data Set CD-ROM Hardcover – January 31, 2013

by Kang-tsung Chang (Author)
ISBN-13: 978-0077805401 ISBN-10: 0077805402 Edition: 7th
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  • Hardcover: 425 pages
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math; 7 edition (January 31, 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0077805402
  • ISBN-13: 978-0077805401
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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Karl Chang is a professor at the University of Idaho.

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Good introductory book, but not worth the cost
By ANS on December 6, 2013
This book was a required textbook for my college course. It provided a nice overview of what GIS is and how it can be used. It explored many different techniques for analysis, data models, data acquisition, data exploration, and more. It went over these concepts fairly generally, sometimes not describing in detail the specifics of each subtopic it introduces. It is a very modern book with references to new technologies and studies.

Note that the book is NOT for just ArcGIS. It is careful to describe GIS in general and does not focus solely on ArcGIS, though there are exercises at the end of each chapter (with data from the CD) that do apply to ArcGIS.

Overall, I would say this is a good book for an introductory course, but it is very much overpriced! It may be ~400 pages long, but the pages are small. I would not buy this book if it was not a required textbook. Similar books, though they may less current, can easily be found in a library for free!
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Introduction to Geographic Information Systems with Data Set CD-ROM
By Marcelo on March 14, 2014
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This book is very good, lets have a general knowledge
about GIS and how to work in ArcGIS.
It was recommended by a professor from K-State that work
with GIS.
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Get this book for the exercises - and check the required version before buying!
By WaterRocks on December 21, 2013
This was a required text for a GIS class. The exercises at the end of each chapter were the best part of the text. Since the exercises change with each new version of ARC GIS, you need the most recent version of the book (unless a kind classmate will allow you to scan the problem sets and share the data.) The text is OK but pretty dense, and in my opinion, Chang doesn't explain concepts very well. Those not familiar with ARCGIS would find doing the problems difficult without some other help - our professor demonstrated a version of the problem sets during each class before letting us loose on the assignments. Our assignments were all based on the exercises in this book and some supplemental exercises. I will probably keep the exercise data so that I can try to redo them if I forget how to use some of the ARCGIS features in the future, although the usefulness will be limited by continued changes to ARCGIS.

Lots of the exercises are based on Idaho - a way to bring more exposure to a less populated state!
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Good introduction book
By Paul Maximillian on February 3, 2014
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good overall into book yes good exercises and such, in addition to online course guide, comes with cd data set
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