Mobile GIS: The Arcpad Way

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Mobile GIS: The ArcPad Way is the perfect tool for geographic information system (GIS) professionals who require mobility for fieldwork and transient data collection and analysis. Mobile GIS is radically changing the way users can work with GIS since it is no longer tied to the desktop. The rapid growth in the capability of mobile devices has made it possible to take the power of GIS wherever it is needed. Mobile GIS: The ArcPad Way is about what users can accomplish when they have access to GIS away from the office. They can collect data in the field, check out data whenever they need it and carry it with them, or download data over wireless networks when away from the desktop.

Jonathan Raper is currently professor of geographic information science, Department of Information Science at the City University, London. He founded the Geographic Information Science Group in 1999 and is currently head of the department. Before City University, Jonathan Raper was at Birkbeck College, University of London, for 11 years. A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers and the Geological Society of London and a member of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, Jonathan Raper is actively engaged in research at the intersection of these areas, having published six books and more than 30 reference articles in these fields.