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 widely in the area. -Randy On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:33 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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, > layers, coordinate systems, ...) and acronyms (WFS, ..)/ technologies. In > other words, I need something that gives me the big picture.. > > I am already starting to create my own understanding of these concepts, but I > am pretty sure things would be smoother if I could just find a good book to > read :) > > thanks, > Sami Dalouche > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
