Re: [OSM-talk] Good book on GIS concepts

2010-06-29 Thread Sami Dalouche
Hi, Thanks a lot to everybody for your references ! Regards, Sami On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 17:51 +0200, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: El 23/06/2010 16:33, sko...@free.fr escribió: Would anyone recommend a good book on GIS/Geodesy/etc that could be used to understand the underlying concepts

Re: [OSM-talk] Good book on GIS concepts

2010-06-24 Thread Maurizio Napolitano
i think this can be a good start point http://linfiniti.com/dla/ videopdf to introduce the GIS with qgis ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Good book on GIS concepts

2010-06-24 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El 23/06/2010 16:33, sko...@free.fr escribió: Would anyone recommend a good book on GIS/Geodesy/etc that could be used to understand the underlying concepts behind most GIS applications ? Try: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Library http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Libros_de_SIG Best, -- Iván Sánchez

[OSM-talk] Good book on GIS concepts

2010-06-23 Thread skoobi
Hi, Would anyone recommend a good book on GIS/Geodesy/etc that could be used to understand the underlying concepts behind most GIS applications ? I am not looking for 100% theory full of mathematical formulae, but ideally, something that explains the main idea behind the concepts (projections,

Re: [OSM-talk] Good book on GIS concepts

2010-06-23 Thread Randy Meech
I recently read and enjoyed A Primer of GIS: Fundamental Geographic and Cartographic Concepts when I was looking for the same sort of thing: http://www.amazon.com/Primer-GIS-Fundamental-Geographic-Cartographic/dp/1593855656 That said, I chose this after some online research haven't read very

Re: [OSM-talk] Good book on GIS concepts

2010-06-23 Thread Igor Brejc
This one is a bit technical, but it's a great resource book: http://www.spatialanalysisonline.com/ There's even a free Web version, although I recommend buying a printed version for anyone into GIS Igor On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 4:33 PM, sko...@free.fr wrote: Hi, Would anyone recommend a good