Geographic Information System Secondary Development Tutorial: Component Section: Component Section

Author: Liu Guang
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: With the continuous expansion of the application areas of Geographic Information System (GIS) technology, application developers urgently need a mapping and GIS functional component. To address this, major GIS vendors have successively launched secondary development components. The representative of GIS components should be MapObjects and MapX. Today, GIS has become a global industry with hundreds of thousands of professionals and billions of dollars in value. This book introduces, through numerous examples, how to perform GIS secondary development using MapObjects and MapX components. It first provides an overview of GIS secondary development, the characteristics and structure of component-based GIS; then it separately introduces how to use various languages (Visual Basic, C++Builder, and Visual C++) as well as MapBasic and MapX components for GIS secondary development. When introducing each component, it starts with the basic concepts and then progresses from simple to advanced in explaining how to implement map display and geographic computation methods. This book is suitable for GIS researchers and developers in government agencies and enterprises, as well as students majoring in geography, geographic information systems, real estate, environmental science, resource and urban-rural planning management, regional economics, and other related fields at universities for reference and study. It is also suitable as a learning textbook for various GIS training programs.