Books
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OSM users might be interested in some of these books. If you buy through these links then you'll be supporting OSM, too.
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Hackery
Mapping Hacks
Authors: Schuyler Erle, Rich Gibson, Jo Walsh
ISBN: 0596007035
Language: english
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.; Sebastopol, USA; 2005
Contributions by OSM community include the above and Mikel Maron.
Amazon: UK
Google Maps Hacks
Authors: Schuyler Erle, Rich Gibson
ISBN: 0596101619
Language: english
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.; Sebastopol, USA; 2006
Contributions by OSM community include Tom Carden, Steve Coast and Mikel Maron
Amazon: UK
Web Mapping Illustrated
Author: Tyler Mitchell
Title: Web Mapping Illustrated. Using Open Source GIS Toolkits
Publisher: O'Reilly, June 2005
ISBN 0-596-00865-1
This book describes MapServer and other free software for (more advanced and traditional) geographic information systems (GIS). This is a really good introduction to web-based mapping, though it does require a little prior knowledge about formal GIS techniques/terms - though nothing you cant find on the net.
Surveying and Mapping
Formelsammlung für das Vermessungswesen
Authors: Franz Josef Gruber, Rainer Joeckel
Language: german
10 edition: (2001)
- ISBN: 3-87919-280-4
- Publisher: Verlag Konrad Wittwer; Stuttgart
Current: 12 edition (2005)
- ISBN: 3-519-01486-6
- Publisher Teubner Verlag/GWV Fachverlage GmbH; Wiesbaden
Has some compact summaries (with math) about geodetic systems, conversion formulas for different coordinate systems.
Datums and map projections : for remote sensing, GIS, and surveying
Authors: Jonathan Iliffe Language: English ISBN: 1870325281 Publisher: Whittles Publishing
Does what it says on the tin. "Datums and Map Projections" is an excellent introduction to the sometime rather obscure world of geodessy. The book contains thourough but concise explanations of Map Projections, Transformations, GPS, D-GPS, Kinematic GPS and related issues. The volume includes practical examples (from the Isle of Wight of all places) of transformation and projection issues and lists numerous formulas and equations for Geodetic calculations.
If you want to know the difference between different projections, how to convert from one co-ordinate system to another, or even just find out why on earth you should care about this sort of thing, you should really read this book!
Cartography
Elements of Cartography
Authors: Arthur H Robinson, Joel L Morrison, Phillip C Muehrcke, A Jon Kimerling, Stephen C Guptill
ISBN 0-471-55579-7
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
The standard work. A little dry, but covers pretty much every subject related to cartography even if not always in the greatest depth.
Designing Better Maps - a Guide for GIS Users
Author: Cynthia A Brewer
ISBN 1-58948-089-9
Publisher: ESRI Press
Excellent new hands-on guide to cartographic design. Though published by ESRI, the book will be useful for all, not just ArcGIS users. Includes a very handy appendix of colour swatches (e.g. for hill shading) with RGB and CMYK values.
Databases
Spatial databases -- A tour
Authors: Shashi Shekhar , Sanjay Chawla
ISBN:0-13-017480-7
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Talks about what you might want to extend an SQL database with to get a spatial databse.
