16 months have passed since I last posted on this blog! At that time, I was happy that Anita Graser, our QGIS heroine from Austria, had just published her QGIS 2.0 book. There are at least nine (9!) QGIS books commercially available now (or within a couple of months), including Ms Graser's second edition book. QGIS itself is now at version 2.8 for the general release version, thanks to their new accelerated release schedule. Thank you, open source geospatial community folks!
In this blog, I thought I'd give you a listing of how-to books about open source geospatial software I recently found. These include books on
QGIS,
PostGIS (spatial objects extender for the open source PostgreSQL database),
GeoServer (a super-duper server for sharing geospatial data), and web mapping clients like
OpenLayers and
Leaflet.
Packt Publishing and
Locate Press lead the way, with e-book centered
Leanpub getting into the act recently. Packt also carries books on
OpenStreetMap,
Google Maps API, and
Bing Maps API, although the last two are not open source projects. Here's what I found so far — I haven't looked at them all, far from it, so I present this list without comment:
QGIS
| Title |
Author(s) |
Link |
| Learning QGIS 2.0 |
Anita Graser |
Click here |
| Learning QGIS, 2nd Edition |
Anita Graser |
Click here |
| Building Mapping Applications with QGIS |
Erik Westra |
Click here |
| Mastering QGIS |
Kurt Menke, Richard Smith, John Van Hoesen, Luigi Pirelli |
Click here |
| QGIS 2 Cookbook |
Alex Mandel, Anita Graser, Victor Olaya |
Click here |
| Getting Started With GIS Using QGIS |
McCartney Taylor, Nik Freeman |
Click here |
| The QGIS Training Manual |
Rüdiger Thiede, Tim Sutton, Horst Düster, Marcelle Sutton |
Click here |
| QGIS Python Programming Cookbook |
Joel Lawhead |
Click here |
| The PyQGIS Programmer's Guide |
Gary Sherman |
Click here |
GeoServer
| Title |
Author(s) |
Link |
| GeoServer Beginner’s Guide |
Stefano Iacovella, Brian Youngblood |
Click here |
| Mastering GeoServer |
Colin Henderson |
Click here |
| GeoServer Cookbook |
Stefano Iacovella |
Click here |
PostGIS
| Title |
Author(s) |
Link |
| PostGIS in Action |
Regina Obe, Leo Hsu |
Click here |
| PostGIS in Action, Second Edition |
Regina Obe, Leo Hsu |
Click here |
| PostGIS Essentials |
Angel Marquez |
Click here |
| PostGIS Cookbook |
Paolo Corti, Stephen Vincent Mather, Thomas J Kraft, Bborie Park |
Click here |
OpenLayers
| Title |
Author(s) |
Link |
| OpenLayers 2.10 Beginner's Guide |
Erik Hazzard |
Click here |
| OpenLayers 3: Beginner's Guide |
Thomas Gratier, Paul Spencer, Erik Hazzard |
Click here |
| Instant OpenLayers Starter |
Alessio Di Lorenzo, Giovanni Allegri |
Click here |
| OpenLayers Cookbook |
Antonio Santiago Perez |
Click here |
| The Book of OpenLayers 3 |
Antonio Santiago |
Click here |
Leaflet
| Title |
Author(s) |
Link |
| Instant Interactive Map designs with Leaflet JavaScript Library How-to |
Jonathan Derrough |
Click here |
| Leaflet.js Essentials |
Paul Crickard III |
Click here |
| Leaflet Tips and Tricks |
Malcolm Maclean |
Click here |
| Mapping with Leaflet.js |
Seth Vincent |
Click here |
D3.js
| Title |
Author(s) |
Link |
| Learning D3.js Mapping |
Thomas Newton, Oscar Villarreal |
Click here |
