Links for Chapter 2

Location and Space

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Footnote 1

As marketing copy, this one is always already out of date. As of November 2023, the most direct reference to location on the Esri website is here: esri.com/en-us/arcgis/products/spatial-analytics-data-science/overview, where the first subheading reads Location reveals hidden patterns and relationships.

Footnote 6

ScapeToad is still at http://scapetoad.choros.place/ (yes http, not https).

Footnote 8

The TopoJSON format specification is at github.com/topojson/topojson-specification.

Footnote 9

The GeoJSON format specification is at datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7946

Footnote 10

You can experiment with the GeoJSON format at geojson.io.

Footnote 11

David Theobald’s bewildered comment about the rendering speed of shapefiles is in an article in ArcUser entitled ‘Understanding topology and shapefiles’: esri.com/news/arcuser/0401/topo.html.

Footnote 14

The PostGIS project home page: osgeo.org/projects/postgis/