With GIS (geographic information system) software, people can take data that has a geographic component and turn it into a map. Whether they want to show population density, environmental sensitivity, development potential, sales
analysis, income, or political constituencies, GIS can make it happen. With Web Mapping Illustrated web developers with enough inspiration and imagination can do what only qualified GIS scientists could do previously: create, customize and share maps over the Web.
This book offers several programming projects that reveal ways to build digital mapping services as content for web sites, or as part of dynamic server-side web applications, by taking advantage of free GIS toolkits. Web developers learn how to combine public data with personal data, and many other ways to customize maps.
