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Author: Michael Zeiler
ISBN : 1589482786
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Modeling Our World presents a complete survey of the geodatabase information model. Updated to reflect recent changes in ArcGIS software, this book explains how to use geodatabase structural elements to promote best practices for data modeling and powerful geographic analyses; how to use rules and data properties in the geodatabase to ensure spatial and attribute integrity; how to manage your organizations work flow; how to scale geodatabases from small projects up to multiple departments across a large organization.
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- Paperback: 308 pages
- Publisher: ESRI Press; Second Edition, New edition edition (August 1, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1589482786
- ISBN-13: 978-1589482784
- Product Dimensions: 0.9 x 7.4 x 8.8 inches
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Modeling Our World is likely the most authoritative text currently available about geodatabases. The sheer amount of information here and breadth of topics covered make it an excellent reference for anyone in the GIS field. Given its publication date of 2010 I was concerned the text would be out of date, but it turns out that's not the case. This is strictly a reference book. There are no exercises requiring a certain edition of ArcGIS software to complete, nor are there any how-to guides with screenshots explaining how to perform a task. The text simply discusses the overarching concepts in geodatabases. Projections, versioning, linear referencing, geocoding...the ideas behind all of these and more will not change, even when the software does. Perhaps the final chapter, which includes some Python code, will become (or maybe already is) outdated, but even then it would only affect 4 pages and still wouldn't change the fact you have to import a module or specify a workspace.
With that being said, the book's not perfect. Chapter reviews only appear at the end of the longest chapters, but having these at the end of every chapter would be better. A glossary would also be helpful considering how much is covered here, but there isn't one. Including 3 or 4 review questions about the major themes at the end of a chapter would help readers retain information, but there aren't any. Typos are fairly common, and sometimes the wording is confusing, requiring the reader to review a sentence multiple times to truly understand what the author is trying to convey.