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Open Source Approaches in Spatial Data Handling

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  • © 2008

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Editors:
  1. G. Brent Hall

    1. School of Surveying, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

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  2. Michael G. Leahy

    1. Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N21 3C5

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  • Provides contributions from the originators of some of the most popular OSG tools in use
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Advances in Geographic Information Science (AGIS)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
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  2. Geospatial Open Source and Open Standards Convergences

    • Athanasios Tom Kralidis
    Pages 1-20

  3. Free Software and Open Source Business Models

    • Arnulf Christl
    Pages 21-48

  4. Communities of Practice and the Business of Open Source Web Mapping

    • David McIhagga
    Pages 49-64

  5. MapServer

    • Stephen Lime
    Pages 65-85

  6. The Geospatial Data Abstraction Library

    • Frank Warmerdam
    Pages 87-104

  7. Open Source Databases and Their Spatial Extensions

    • Rongguo Chen, Jiong Xie
    Pages 105-129

  8. MapGuide Open Source

    • Robert Bray
    Pages 131-152

  9. Geo Tools

    • Ian Turton
    Pages 153-169

  10. GRASS GIS

    • M. Neteler, D.E. Beaudette, P. Cavallini, L. Lami, J. Cepicky
    Pages 171-199

  11. GeoVISTA Studio: Reusability by Design

    • Mark Gahegan, Frank Hardisty, Urška Demšar, Masa Takatsuka
    Pages 201-220

  12. Design and Implementation of a Map-Centred Synchronous Collaboration Tool Using Open Source Components: The MapChat Project

    • G. Brent Hall, Michael G. Leahy
    Pages 221-245

  13. TerraLib: An Open Source GIS Library for Large-Scale Environmental and Socio-Economic Applications

    • Gilberto Câmara, Lúbia Vinhas, Karine Reis Ferreira, Gilberto Ribeiro De Queiroz, Ricardo Cartaxo Modesto De Souza, Antônio Miguel Vieira Monteiro et al.
    Pages 247-270

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 271-278
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Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Surveying, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

    G. Brent Hall

  • Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N21 3C5

    Michael G. Leahy

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