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Mastering ArcGIS with Video Clips CD-ROM | 
| Author: Maribeth H. Price
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
Category: Book
Buy New: $18.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 637590
Media: Spiral-bound
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 609
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.8
Dimensions (in): 10.5 x 8.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 007299987X
Dewey Decimal Number: 910
EAN: 9780072999877
ASIN: 007299987X
Publication Date: July 6, 2005
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Product Description
Mastering ArcGIS is an introductory GIS lab manual that employs a carefully developed learning system to help students use ArcView 8.x to set up and solve GIS problems. An innovative and unique feature of Mastering ArcGIS is its accompanying CD-ROM with narrated videoclips that show students exactly how to perform chapter tutorials before attempting an exercise on their own.
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 Mastering ArcGIS with Video Clips CD-ROM February 23, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is a good manual for using ArcGIS, and the tutorials are excellent at teaching the user the content of each chapter. As the book progresses, it builds on knowledge gained in previous chapters. I really like how the book uses methods learned from other chapters and does not reteach the reader the method each time it is required in later chapters. This forces the reader to really think about what he/she has learned or to go back and relearn it from the earlier chapter. I think that this actually teaches the ArcGIS user rather than just have him/her follow instructions each time.
My major complaint about the book is with the editing. Each chapter has an answer key/help section at the back of the book for the questions/exercises in each chapter. In each chapter I have used to date I have found errors with the answer key/help section. These errors have been confirmed by my lab instructor at my university. While these are minor errors and the content of the book, overall, is good, I do think that a book costing between $70 and $80 should have a better editing staff. That said, these minor errors do not get in the way of learning the ArcGIS software. I would recommend this book.
 Best book you can get for entry-level GIS November 19, 2007
I am commenting on the version of this text for ArcGIS 9.1, which I think the author updates with newer versions of the software. Quite simply, I feel it is the best introduction you can get to the field of GIS. It gives a conceptual understanding of GIS, without getting too theoretical. Then provides excellent step-by-step tutorials that are easy to follow but very informative. Along the way many of the quirks and tricks of the software are mentioned. Going through this book alone will better prepare you for most entry-level GIS jobs than the majority of candidates out there. The chapters on spatial references, editing, symbology, geodatabases, and Spatial Analyst are great. The only drawback of the book for 9.1 was a few errors in the answers to the chapter questions.
Great to teach yourself GIS November 8, 2007
This was the book for an online GIS class I took. If you're doing one of the online GIS Master's and this isn't the book for your class in ArcGIS, I suggest you consider adding this to your personal collection. It has great step-by-step tutorials and is great at teaching the basics.
Best Resource for Learning ESRI's ArcGIS 9.2 September 25, 2007
If you want to learn ESRI's ArcGIS 9.2 on your own, this is your best option outside of taking Intro. to ArcGIS I and II from ESRI (which would be my first choice). We use this workbook & CD in the beginning GIS course at the undergrad and grad level. Price is an ESRI-authorized instructor and a professor at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology. The spiral-bound workbook -- which you are encouraged to write in -- is set up with short chapters providing the basics of GIS theory, a hands-on tutorial (for which the CD has videos for you to follow along if you prefer), multiple exercises -- some simple, some challenging -- and brief chapter reviews. Answers to all of the tutorial questions are in the back of the book along with screenshots and answers for the exercises. In the 3rd edition Price has expanded the tutorials and exercises beyond South Dakota and updated the text and exercises for ArcGIS 9.2. In the last chapters you are introduced to basic network analysis and working with rasters. The color diagrams of specific tool boxes and screen shots are very helpful. Many people find this book to be a good basic reference when working on more advanced GIS projects.
It has good potential. June 30, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
We used this is an dual level college GIS practicum course. There is much to be said both good and bad. The CD's are useful,and the exercises work through some important lessions in analysis. Unfortunately, there are many errors in the book. In one exercise the question asks you to use the data to make a map showing areas that are closer to streams than to roads. There are 2 road files. Logically, I put in both files and couldn't get the same answer as the answer in the back of the book. Finally, I forgot to load one of the files and loaded only the forest service road file. Then it worked. The question neglected to state that it was only forest service roads that were being considered.
We did 2 chapters a week, including all the exercise questions. It took me a long time to figure out how to do the exercises because the chapter did not address all parts of what was necessary to do the problem.
I recommend that students use the GIS Tutorial (ESRI) book as an introduction, then use this book. The Mastering ArcGIS book is much better in teaching how to solve actual problems encountered in research. The tutorial book (ESRI) addresses simple software issues and demonstrates how to perform necessary tasks to actually use the software.
If the many errors are corrected, this will be a major improvement.
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