On 10/11/2011 08:29 PM, Jonathan Greenberg wrote: > R-sig-geo'ers: > > I wanted to take a quick poll -- what is your favorite introductory > GIS textbook? I'm evaluating texts for a basic GIS course I'll be > teaching next year, and I wanted to get some feedback from the > open-source community. Thanks! > > --j >
Hi Jonathan, On topic (I don't want to start a ArcGIS vs Open source flame :)). When I did a graduate course in GIS, we used the book "Principles of Geographical Information Systems" by Peter Burrough and Rachael McDonnell. I think the book is ok, especially when teaching to under graduates. It covers a wide range of topics and does not explicitely use one type of software (e.g. ArcGIS). regards, Paul -- Paul Hiemstra, Ph.D. Global Climate Division Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) Wilhelminalaan 10 | 3732 GK | De Bilt | Kamer B 3.39 P.O. Box 201 | 3730 AE | De Bilt tel: +31 30 2206 494 http://intamap.geo.uu.nl/~paul http://nl.linkedin.com/pub/paul-hiemstra/20/30b/770 _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo