[Freegis-list] OS GIS book?

Ari Jolma ari.jolma at hut.fi
Wed Nov 3 18:32:01 CET 2004


Ian Turton wrote:

>>It's interesting that there are no books with the word 
>>"geoinformatics" 
>>in the title (amazon gives one, but that's a conference proceedings). 
>>    
>>
>
>Try looking for GeoComputation - an earlier and still prefered in many
>places.
>  
>

Yes, but not too many books with that term in title either, the main one 
is also a sort of conference proceedings. OS is perhaps more used 
GeoComputation field --maybe because it is rather research oriented. 
Maybe the term Geoinformatics is also more sexy (and more broad) than 
GeoComputation? ;-)

Ari

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