Data Driven: Database Design and Maintenance

Data Driven: Database Design and Maintenance

Edited by Sara Yurman

Databases are the engines for geographic information systems (GIS), a preoccupation for GIS practitioners at all levels. Data Driven compiles papers that report on database success, failure and recovery. This collection of papers highlights each phase of the database lifecycle: design, creation, quality control, implementation, maintenance, re-engineering. This book is designed to help with questions such as:

• What technologies are working now?
• What is coming up that will make our GIS work better, cheaper, faster?
• How can data be de-complicated, organized, used everywhere in an organization?
• Can digital imagery help existing maps? (Yes! Find out how.)
• What practical quality control measures will ensure the integrity of a database investment into the future?
• Data Driven is for anyone looking for how GIS databases can work, and work better. 

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