Modeling Our World: The ESRI Guide to Geodatabase Design

by Michael Zeiler

Geographic data models are digital frameworks that describe the location and characteristics of things in the world around us. With a geographic information system, we can use these models as lenses to see, interpret, and analyze the infinite complexity of our natural and man-made environments. With the geodatabase, a new geographic data model introduced with ArcInfo 8, you can extend significantly the level of detail and range of accuracy with which you can model geographic reality in a database environment.

200 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

Reviews

[Pam · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's an okay book. It does a good job of explaining generally what the different applications of the software do- which I have a hard time getting ESRI's online support to tell me. But obviously by now it's a little outdated where it talks about the applications of the software. The logic behind the framework of geodatabase model is still good.

[Randall Clark · Rating 4 out of 5]

a lot about GIS databases