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What books, journals, electronic resources have you found most valuable for expanding your knowledge in the GI field? To which of them you come back most often?
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hey everybody, 1 book per post please. I can't upvote How to lie with maps without also upvoting GIS for web developers which is not relevant for me. Thanks – matt wilkie♦ Jul 23 '10 at 17:36
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I respectfully disagree, as I'd rather read through 30 than 100 posts – dassouki Jul 23 '10 at 19:09
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@dassouki the community standard for Stack Exchange sites is to encourage one vote per answer for "List of X" style questions to avoid duplicates and make voting easier. I have to admit that I didn't do it myself on this question though. – JasonBirch Jul 31 '10 at 5:20
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These are off the top of my head.

  • HP 48GX calculator. Excellent for converting DMS to DD.
  • Least Squares Adjustment
  • Mapping Hacks
  • Oracle DBA 11g
  • Introduction to Remote Sensing; James B. Campbell
  • Fundamentals of Spatial Information Systems; Robert Laurini
  • Web Mapping Illustrated
  • Geographic Information Systems: A Management Perspective; Stan Arnoff
  • Ready to Run Visual Basic Algorithms
  • Head First Design Patterns

The Internet: like gis.stackexchange.com

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Lining Up Data in ArcGIS is great if you want to learn about data projections.

Can anyone suggest a good book for using Spatial Data in SQL Server 2008?

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I am going to go a different direction with this question. I have eliminated my bookshelf and now am an avid Evernote user. I load all my documents in there and always have them with me. The top docs for GIS I have stored are:

Boston GIS Tutorials

Best Practices for Creating an ArcGIS® Server Web Mapping Application for Municipal/Local Government

Developer’s Guide:Create GeoWeb Applications with the Sample Flex Viewer

ERSI System Design Strategies

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I found another programmer’s book list with succinct reviews on them. Please check it out : GIS Books list

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