Awards

• Winner of Benjamin Franklin Award (Professional) 2005

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These database designs are intended to help GIS users rapidly become productive with the geodatabase and to share what really works among user and developer communities. This book has two primary goals: 1. Providing a series of domain data models that represent commonly used GIS datasets by applying best practices for GIS data modeling and collection. 2. Communicating a practical GIS database design process. A series of designs derived from specific case studies are presented throughout the book, including: Streams and river networks; Census units and boundaries; Addresses and locations; Parcels and the cadastre; Federal lands survey; Raster data use; Cartography and the basemap; Building accurate geodatabases is the foundation for meaningful and reliable GIS.

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David Arctur is currently the director of interoperability programs with the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC). He received his doctorate in urban and regional planning at the University of Florida. Arctur has more than 18 years of programming experience, including more than 6 years in object-oriented programming and 10 years in database application design and development. Michael Zeiler is a technical writer and data model specialist at ESRI with 20 years of GIS experience diagramming GIS concepts, building data models, and programming. He has authored the best-selling books Modeling Our World and Exploring ArcObjects.

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