Designing Geodatabases: Case Studies in GIS Data Modeling. This item is unavailable.Designing Geodatabases: Case Studies in GIS Data Modeling

This highly visual guide to creating a dynamic geographic data model helps ArcGIS users design schemas that have comprehensive and descriptive query definitions, user-friendly cartographic displays, and increased performance standards. ""Designing Geodatabases"" outlines five steps for taking a data model through its conceptual, logical, and physical phases - modeling the user's view, defining objects and relationships, selecting geographic representations, matching geodatabase elements, and organizing the geodatabase structure. Several design models for a variety of applications are considered, including addresses and locations, census units and boundaries, stream and river networks, and topography and the basemap.

David Arctur is currently the director of interoperability programs with the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC). He received his doctorate in urban and regional planning at the University of Florida. Arctur has more than 18 years of programming experience, including more than 6 years in object-oriented programming and 10 years in database application design and development. Michael Zeiler is a technical writer and data model specialist at ESRI with 20 years of GIS experience diagramming GIS concepts, building data models, and programming. He has authored the best-selling books Modeling Our World and Exploring ArcObjects.