What this book covers

Chapter 1, Preparing to Build Your Own GIS Application, talks about the benefits of developing a custom geospatial application and describes how to set up your development environment, and create your application folder structure.

Chapter 2, Accessing Geodata, implements the crucial data loading and saving capabilities of your application for both vector and raster data.

Chapter 3, Designing the Visual Look of Our Application, creates and puts together the basic building blocks of your application's user interface, giving you a first look at what your application will look like.

Chapter 4, Rendering Our Geodata, adds rendering capabilities so that the user can interactively view, zoom, and pan data inside the application.

Chapter 5, Managing and Organizing Geographic Data, creates a basic functionality for splitting, merging, and cleaning both the vector and raster data.

Chapter 6, Analyzing Geographic Data, develops basic analysis functionality, such as overlay statistics, for vector and raster data.

Chapter 7, Packaging and Distributing Your Application, wraps it all up by showing you how to share and distribute your application, so it is easier for you or others to use it.

Chapter 8, Looking Forward, considers how you may wish to proceed to further build on, customize, and extend your basic application into something more elaborate or specialized in whichever way you want.