Web Mapping Illustrated Using Open Source GIS Toolkits

Tyler Mitchell published the first edition in July 2005. It quickly sold out within a year and a half. A first edition English reprint is planned for end of 2008! With updates hoped for in 2009.

Developers who want to publish maps on the web often discover that commercial tools cost too much and hunting down the free tools scattered across Internet can use up too much of your time and resources. Web Mapping Illustrated shows you how to create maps, even interactive maps, with free tools, including MapServer, OpenEV, GDAL/OGR, and PostGIS. It also explains how to find, collect, understand, use, and share mapping data, both over the traditional Web and using OGC-standard services like WFS and WMS.

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