Fu Pinde. Getting to know Web GIS

Esri Press, 2015. — 390 p.Getting to Know Web GIS is a workbook, with detailed, step-by-step exercises, that teaches readers how to share resources online and build web GIS applications easily and quickly. It covers the Esri suite of web GIS technologies, including ArcGIS Online, Portal for ArcGIS, ArcGIS for Server, web app templates, Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS, ArcGIS API for JavaScriptTM, the Collector for ArcGIS mobile app, ArcGIS Runtime SDKs for Mobile, and 3D web scenes. You don’t have to be a developer to build web apps. This book shows you how to build engaging web apps with little to no programming. Unlike books that focus on individual products, this book teaches web GIS technologies as a holistic platform. In each chapter, students complete an application project.
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Each chapter includes a conceptual discussion that gives readers the big picture and the underlying principles, system requirements that help instructors set up the lab, a detailed tutorial with abundant screen captures that conㆵrm progress along the way, common questions and answers, an assignment that allows readers to practice what they have learned, and a resource section.
This book is the result of the author’s extensive working experience at Esri and teaching experience at Harvard University Extension and other universities. It is a practical manual for classroom lab work and on-the-job training for GIS students, instructors, GIS analysts, managers, web developers, and a broad range of GIS professionals.
Pinde Fu is a project lead and senior GIS application developer at Esri. His specialties include web GIS technologies and applications in various industries. Several of his projects have won special achievement awards. Fu is coauthor of Web GIS: Principles and Applications (Esri Press, 2011).