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| | Description | Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop introduces principles of GIS as it teaches the mechanics of using ESRI’s leading technology. Key concepts are combined with detailed illustrations and step-by-step exercises to acquaint readers with the building blocks of ArcGIS® Desktop including ArcMap™, for displaying and querying maps, ArcCatalog™, for organizing geographic data, and ModelBuilder™, for diagramming and processing solutions to complex spatial analysis problems. Its broad scope, simple style, and practical orientation make this book an ideal classroom text and an excellent resource for those learning GIS on their own. A data CD for working through the exercises and a fully functioning 180-day trial ArcGIS® Desktop 10 software is included.
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Tim Ormsby | | Paperback: | 592 pages | | Publisher: | ESRI Press | | Publication Date: | August 01, 2010 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 1589482603 | | Product Length: | 9.12 inches | | Product Width: | 7.56 inches | | Product Height: | 1.2 inches | | Product Weight: | 3.1 pounds | | Package Length: | 8.9 inches | | Package Width: | 7.5 inches | | Package Height: | 1.3 inches | | Package Weight: | 3.1 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 27 reviews |
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6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
 ArcGIS Tutorials Galore Jun 01, 2011
By PittsburghRic
"PittsburghRic"
This book is 592 pages of ArcGIS tutorials. If you like tutorials, then this is the book for you. These tutorials will walk you through anything you would ever want to do with ArcGIS, in painful detail. I was new to ArcGIS before reading this book, it's a complex and powerful program. This book is meant to be read cover to cover, unlike most software manuals & books where you can just jump to what you need to learn. So,.. if you need to learn ArcGIS then this book is for you, but if you just need to learn specific tasks/ tools/ functions this is probably not the book that you want.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Great software - horrible bugs with loading the trial service Apr 07, 2011
By Kerry L Davis
I spent over 6 hours trying to load the trial service and it would not authenticate. I had to go to the computer lab at my school and have them authenticate it...not very user friendly. Now that I'm in, and learning the program, the book is great!
4 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Good learning material but three editions show little change Dec 05, 2010
By IanO
I reviewed this title several years ago and highlighted the excellent training material and structure it provides. My view on that remains. However, this book has literally 99% the same content and structure of the earlier editions, so if you are looking for new material you wil be disappointed. The software changes relating to the training examples are largely cosmetic, one or two modified dialogs and toolbars. Nothing of substance.
Also, there is no requirement to purchase this book to obtain the 180-day evaluation software (which is ArcGIS 10 Editor version). Indeed, it is no longer bundled with the book, you have to download the 3.9Gb file, but you also get the evaluation key, so this latest edition is unnecessary.
My advice is, save yourself a whole lot of money, buy an older version and obtain the software via download. There is so little change to the book you will not be disadvantaged. Amazon currently (Dec 2010) has used editions from $17.13.
ESRI Press could have provided an 'update' pdf of changes, but I doubt it would have got beyond a page!
IanO - UK
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Good Book but not so good support Sep 30, 2011
By BOSarch
This book is well written but is not so practical to use because installing the trial software is almost impossible and all the exercises are based on having the program installed. If you already have access to the software than this is a great investment otherwise I would make sure you have it before buying this book. Also, good luck getting the 180-day version that they advertise in the book, you'll be lucky to get the 60-day version (you don't need to buy book for that) that will only be available through their website. Keep in mind the book only directs you to their website for any information on downloading trial software.
Was finnally able to istall the trial software and worked well and expired on the last day of course so I'm unable to continue practicing.
For Dummies Apr 30, 2012
By Willie
This is a great book to learn ArcGis from. It is very detailed and works through ArcGis detail by detail. If you don't know anything about GIS programs this will work for you, but be prepared to put in a great deal of time.
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