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Getting to Know ArcView GIS (Paperback)

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Edition: 3rd ed.
Author: Ersi Press
Publisher: Esri Press
Release Date: 1999-05
ISBN-10: 1879102463
ISBN-13: 9781879102460
List Price: ~~$49.95~~
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Very Disappointed!

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Previous editions of the book came with a 6 month license that allowed users to learn and use Arcgis Desktop. The edition sent (different cover than the one listed) included a CD with a demo version of the beta release (9.3) and allowing limited access to folders, and limited functionality - useless for my purposes. I used this book to teach a University class. Now I need another solution that will include the separate purchase of license. If this is what ESRI intended, it worked - but won't sell as many books.

Low Content Bloated book

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Once upon a time, there was only one arcview book out there, and this was it. At the time, it was invaluable.

Now there are much better books out there, and this one now stands out by the low content bloated presentation. You don't learn anything about principles of GIS, or strategies for information analysis. You only learn how to copycat step by step various exercises.

If you are a total computer novice and want hand holding, this is a successful book you will probably enjoy for awhile, until you start getting curious about doing real things with this program.

For those needing fundamentals

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I bought this book to update my ESRI skills. I felt like the majority of the book was just basics, and the functionality of the included CD was somewhat limited. I feel one of the most important basics is to be able to create a layer from scratch, you cannot do this with the trial version. I understand why this is from a legal point, but not a learning point. I felt like the tutorials were far too basic, and had more of an eye on the cartography than the science and analysis. Overall, its a good book for beginners, but the more savvy user would find this boring.

WARNING! This is Book Only Covers ArcView 3!

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OLD VERSION ALERT! OLD VERSION ALERT!

Be warned that this book covers ArcView 3.

As critical as it is to get the book that covers the correct version of the software that you have, it is amazing that the version number is not highlighted anywhere. (The only indication that this is not for a current version is the date of publication; I usually check the publishing date on any tech book, but somehow I missed it on this book.)

As for it's fitness as a guide to ArcView version 3, I can't honestly say...

Getting to Know ArcView

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This is another teaching book with a CD. The CD works well and does what it is supposed to do. Although the cover says the CD is a trial version of ArcView. That is just a lie. The CD contains a special version of ArcView that works only with the exercises.

The book spends too much time introducing itself. It is itself an introduction but the first 100 or so pages are spent saying what they resay in the remaining chapters; and with terms the novice will probably not understand at first. I found that the book had a hard time begining, kept thinking, "When are they going to get to the point?"

Would like to see more about how to convert raw data to a file that can displayed; it finally came in chapter in 25 but only briefly.