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SpatialNews.com Press Release
Designing Geodatabases-Case Studies in GIS Data Modeling Helps GIS Users Become Productive
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Redlands, California-The new ESRI Press book, Designing Geodatabases-Case Studies in GIS Data Modeling, presents a compendium of best practices in geodatabase design. After years of working with its user community, ESRI developed geodatabase designs to help ArcGIS users rapidly become productive with the geodatabase and share what effectively works among users and developer communities. Designing Geodatabases supplies geodatabase design information tailored to a variety of application domains from streams and river networks to census units to parcels and property ownership records.
Geographic information system (GIS) technology is founded on the capability to organize information into a series of layers that can be integrated using geographic location. The geodatabase is a framework for modeling the real world with spatial data in a GIS. At a fundamental level, each GIS database is organized as a series of thematic layers to represent and answer questions about a particular problem set. Accurate geodatabases are the foundation of a robust and reliable GIS. Designing Geodatabases begins by outlining the geodatabase design process and moves into strategies for documenting geodatabase designs, diagramming data models, and using design patterns.
The book is devoted to case studies that explore database designs created for stream and river networks, census units and boundaries, addresses and locations, parcels and cadastre, surveying federal lands, and cartography and the basemap. Each case study chapter examines the design requirements for that application domain and the data model developed for it. Detailed diagrams illustrate entity relationships while maps and screen shots show applications of the data model. Chapters end with bibliographical references and Web sites that supply additional information.
Designing Geodatabases shares proven design strategies with users so they can rapidly become productive with the geodatabase. The data models described in the book provide a series of templates for implementing geodatabases for specific solutions. Called "the Bible of Geodatabase Education" by ESRI President Jack Dangermond, Designing Geodatabases will help users more easily envision and implement their database plans.
Designing Geodatabases-Case Studies in GIS Data Modeling, (ISBN 1-58948-021-X,
408 pages, $39.95) is available at better bookstores and online retailers worldwide or for purchase at www.esri.com/esripress or by calling 1-800-447-9778. From outside the United States, you may also contact your local ESRI distributor; see www.esri.com/international for a current distributor list. ESRI Press books are distributed to the trade by Independent Publishers Group. (Phone: 1-800-888-4741, Web: www.ipgbook.com).
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