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  • © 2008

Open Source Approaches in Spatial Data Handling

  • 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
  2. Geospatial Open Source and Open Standards Convergences

    • Athanasios Tom Kralidis
    Pages 1-20
  3. MapServer

    • Stephen Lime
    Pages 65-85
  4. The Geospatial Data Abstraction Library

    • Frank Warmerdam
    Pages 87-104
  5. Open Source Databases and Their Spatial Extensions

    • Rongguo Chen, Jiong Xie
    Pages 105-129
  6. MapGuide Open Source

    • Robert Bray
    Pages 131-152
  7. Geo Tools

    • Ian Turton
    Pages 153-169
  8. GRASS GIS

    • M. Neteler, D.E. Beaudette, P. Cavallini, L. Lami, J. Cepicky
    Pages 171-199
  9. GeoVISTA Studio: Reusability by Design

    • Mark Gahegan, Frank Hardisty, UrÅ¡ka DemÅ¡ar, Masa Takatsuka
    Pages 201-220
  10. 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
  11. Back Matter

    Pages 271-278

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