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Getting to Know

Getting to Know Web GIS

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Learn state-of-the-art skills to build compelling, useful, and fun Web GIS apps easily, with no programming experience required.

Building on the foundation of the previous three editions, Getting to Know Web GIS, fourth edition, features the latest advances in Esri’s entire Web GIS platform, from the cloud server side to the client side.

Discover and apply what’s new in ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Enterprise, Map Viewer, Esri StoryMaps, Web AppBuilder, Survey123, and more. Learn about recent Web GIS products such as ArcGIS Experience Builder, ArcGIS Indoors, and ArcGIS QuickCapture. Understand updates in mobile GIS such as ArcGIS Collector and AuGeo, and then build your own web apps. Further your knowledge and skills with detailed sections and chapters on ArcGIS Dashboards, ArcGIS Analytics for the Internet of Things (Iot), online spatial analysis, ArcGIS Notebooks, image services, 3D web scenes, ArcGIS API for JavaScript, and best practices in Web GIS. Follow extended discussions about artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and IoT in the context of Web GIS. Each chapter is written for immediate productivity with a good balance of principles and hands-on exercises and  

A conceptual discussion section to give you the big picture and principles, A detailed tutorial section with step-by-step instructions, A Q/A section to answer common questions,  An assignment section to reinforce your comprehension, and  A list of resources with more information. Ideal for classroom lab work and on-the-job training for GIS students, instructors, GIS analysts, managers, web developers, and other professionals, Getting to Know Web GIS, fourth edition, uses a holistic approach to systematically teach the breadth of the Esri Geospatial Cloud.

To download the instructor slides, tutorial data, and assignment data, visit 

504 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 16, 2015

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Read this in addition to a class also taught by Pinde Fu. The information presented is mostly clear and straightforward. I wish it had a glossary, an index, and list of all ArcGIS products with their description for faster reference.
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Enjoyed the information, enjoyed the exercises, enjoyed the experience.
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