Geographic Information System Secondary Development Tutorial: Component Edition

Author: Liu Guang
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: With the continuous expansion of the application fields 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 an industry with hundreds of thousands of professionals and billions of dollars globally. This book introduces, through numerous examples, how to utilize MapObjects and MapX components for GIS secondary development. It first provides an overview of secondary development in GIS, the characteristics and structure of component-based GIS; then, it separately introduces how to use various programming 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 basic concepts and then explains, step by step, how to implement map display and geographic computation methods. This book is suitable for GIS researchers and developers in government and corporate departments, as well as students in universities and colleges majoring in geography, geographic information systems, real estate, environmental science, resource and urban-rural planning management, regional economics, and related fields for reference and study. It is also suitable as a learning textbook and reference book for various GIS training courses.