[R-sig-Geo] Quick poll -- favorite GIS textbook?

[Paul Hiemstra]

On 10/11/2011 09:13 PM, Steve Friedman wrote:
> While open source gis is appealing most jobs still require introductory
> employees to use arcgis products. I'd stay away from anything else if you
> want your students to thank you latter.

Hi Steve,

I think ArcGIS is directed towards GIS engineers, R is more directed
towards scientists. If you train your students to become scientists, I
would choose R + open source GIS (SAGA, GRASS). If you train them to be
engineers, ArcGIS mixed with some exposure to other tools would be
preferable. I'm not really sure what the goal of Jonathan is, science or
engineering.

regards,
Paul

> Steve
> On Oct 11, 2011 4:33 PM, "Jonathan Greenberg" <jgrn at illinois.edu> wrote:
>
>> R-sig-geo'ers:
>>
>> I wanted to take a quick poll -- what is your favorite introductory
>> GIS textbook?  I'm evaluating texts for a basic GIS course I'll be
>> teaching next year, and I wanted to get some feedback from the
>> open-source community.  Thanks!
>>
>> --j
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan A. Greenberg, PhD
>> Assistant Professor
>> Department of Geography
>> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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>> Urbana, IL 61801
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