The Power of Where
I recommend the new book The Power of Where, by Jack Dangermond and Esri (2024). Here's my short review of this new book...
My GIS certificate program, Penn State '16, included an intensive crash course in Esri ArcGIS. More recently, in my professional experience as a developer, I have used free and open source software like QGIS, PostGIS, GDAL/OGR, Rasterio, and GeoPandas. It's great to see the Esri persepective again. As a bootstrapped company for over 50 years, it invests massively into research and development.
This book is a hybrid of a visually appealing coffee-table type of book, with a gentle intro to the state of the art in GIS and the "geographic approach" as well. It would make a nice gift to friends or family who don't yet understand the appeal of GIS and the richness of geodata.
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