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Overview

Click on any of the links below to see a summary of the topics covered in each chapter of the book:
  1. Defining Spatial Information
  2. Implementing Spatial Data in SQL Server 2008
  3. CLR Datatypes and the .NET Framework
  4. Creating Spatial Data
  5. Marking Out Features Using Virtual Earth
  6. Importing Spatial Data
  7. Geocoding
  8. Syndicating
  9. Interactive Web Mapping
  10. The Spatial Results Tab
  11. Examining Spatial Properties
  12. Modifying Spatial Objects
  13. Testing Spatial Relationships
  14. Spatial Indexing

Code Download

Click here to download a zip archive containing the code samples used in the book.

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Additional Material

The following links contain useful snippets and examples that further illustrate the topics discussed in the book:
  1. Creating 3D Prism Maps using Google Earth
  2. Creating Chloropleth Maps with Virtual Earth
  3. Creating Proportional Symbol Maps with Google Maps
  4. Calculating the Bearing from One Point to Another
  5. Plotting Geography LineStrings on Google Maps and Virtual Earth
  6. SQL Bits V
  7. Common SRIDs
  8. Extending existing linestrings
  9. Fixing Invalid Geography Data
  10. Marking out geography shapes on Virtual Earth
  11. Reprojecting features using OGR
  12. T-SQL Tuesday 2 Spatial Puzzles
  13. World Borders Dataset