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March GIS Book Sale & New Book Teaser

4 months ago locatepress

This post provides a 20% off coupon for all our e-books, introduces one of our upcoming new titles, and shares the various ways you can engage with us and the geospatial community at large.

Choose from any of our e-books and save 20% through March. Learn about QGIS, enhance your cartography skills, or build a geospatial application.

Use coupon code: MARCH20 when adding to cart, add any titles you want.

Bonus: Select customized offers anytime during checkout, some deals are over 50% off. 

COUPON: MARCH20

Geemap and Earth Engine – Coming Soon!

We are thrilled to tease you with this upcoming book, by popular educator and researcher Qiusheng Wu.

Learn more about his new book focused on Earth Engine and cloud-based geospatial analytics.

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Meet our authors

We now have a dozen active authors, with more coming soon. 

Check out our new Authors Page to learn about their work, their latest books, and how to connect with and follow their social media accounts.

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Printed book discounts

You can save on more than just e-books.
Avoid buying through Amazon or a distributor by emailing us to get direct access to 20%+ discounts on bulk purchases of only five or more books.

Educators and libraries – we are here to support you and your students. Contact us to discuss adding a book to your LMS or course.

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Books News 

Year End Sale – 20% off geospatial e-books

6 months ago locatepress

Save on our final sale of the year

Use this coupon code until Jan 2nd to get 20% off e-books.

Pick any Locate Press e-book and enter the coupon code: XMAS21
The 20% discount will be applied when you add it to your cart.

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COUPON CODE: XMAS21

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Educators save with 5 or more books

Need books for an event or course? Normally we limit bulk discounts to larger orders, but anyone can place an order with us directly – for at least 5 books and we will give a 20% retail discount. That’s like buying four and getting one for free.

What you do with them after is up to you – resell, giveaway, or get them autographed at an event – your call!  

Larger orders may enjoy even steeper discounts. We ship globally and print in USA, UK, and Australia.

Email tyler@locatepress.com with your order. 

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Books News 

GIS Week Sale – 35% off geospatial e-books

8 months ago locatepress

11-day sale to Celebrate November and GIS Week

Enjoy a 35% discount on all Locate Press e-books from Nov 8-19th:

  • Find an e-book here
  • Select Buy PDF
  • Enter Coupon Code: GISDAY2021
  • Add to Cart, Checkout, and save big!

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Beat Amazon! Save on your print orders by ordering direct and getting 20% off 5 or more books of any titles (can be 5 different titles).

Contact us below with your order and mailing address – we’ll supply a quote and a link to process credit card payments.

We print in USA, UK, and Australia where we offer the best shipping rates.

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Books 

Geospatial/GIS Book Titles – Part 2

11 months ago Tyler Mitchell

This post continues where we left off in our last post where we introduced the main QGIS books from Locate Press. The other two categories of books we have include specialized GIS titles and more general GIS titles.

Book cover for Leaflet Cookbook Recipes for Creating Dynamic Web Maps by Numa Gremling
pgRouting: A Practical Guide for PostgreSQL by Regina Obe and Leo Hsu
Geospatial Power Tools - Open Source GDAL / OGR Command Line Utilities by Tyler Mitchell
The Geospatial Desktop - Open Source GIS and Mapping by Gary Sherman

Geospatial & GIS book categories

Specialized geospatial software titles cover web-based mapping, routing analysis, and general raster/vector data management.

General GIS titles covers a wide range of geospatial desktop technology as well as teaching the principles of GIS and data management for new geospatial users.

Web Mapping

Book cover for Leaflet Cookbook Recipes for Creating Dynamic Web Maps by Numa Gremling

Leaftlet Cookbook

Recipes for Creating Dynamic Web Maps

by Numa Gremling

Numa’s covers all the needed pieces for starting your own web mapping project – including an understanding of raster and vector data layers.

No advanced HTML/CSS knowledge is needed as each topic is gently introduced. GEOJson mapping, layout, feature styling, and even geoprocessing with Turf.js is covered.

Databases and other more advanced topics are also included.

Routing in a Spatial Database

pgRouting: A Practical Guide for PostgreSQL by Regina Obe and Leo Hsu

pgRouting: A Practical Guide

by Regina Obe and Leo Hsu

pgRouting is a complement to PostGIS – the open source spatial database, taking the basics of data maangement and queries to the next level.

This book introduces all the data types, functions, queries, and even QGIS integration you need for applying network navigation/routing on top of PostGIS.

Use it as a database add-on, QGIS desktop tool, or publish capabilities through web mapping clients – learn how in this book.

General GIS & Data Management Books

The Geospatial Desktop - Open Source GIS and Mapping by Gary Sherman

The Geospatial Desktop

Open Source GIS and Mapping

by Gary Sherman

Gary’s second geospatial book, and the first for Locate Press, covers a wide range of mapping and GIS software.

It is also a general introduction to open source GIS applications and concepts including raster data, vector data, spatial databases, coordinate systems, etc.

It covers command line tools, desktop GIS tools, scripting examples, and more. Software covered includes GDAL/OGR, QGIS, GRASS GIS, PostGIS, GMT, and more.

Geospatial Power Tools - Open Source GDAL / OGR Command Line Utilities by Tyler Mitchell

Geospatial Power Tools

Open Source GDAL/OGR Command Line Utiltiies

By Tyler Mitchell and GDAL Developers

In Tyler’s second geo-related book, he introduces the basics of using open source command line tools to manage your data.

Topics include converting, transforming, geoprocessing, and analyzing vector/raster datasets.

GDAL raster and OGR vector utilities are introduced along with their comprehensive command line manuals written by developers and formatted for readability.

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