The revised edition of this best-selling how-to and reference book employs a sample application -- GIScity (based on the city of Santa Fe, New Mexico) -- to illustrate the fundamental concepts, functions, and developer's tools in ARC/INFO.No prior experience using ARC/INFO is assumed. By progressing through the book, readers will gain a thorough understanding of the software's basic modules and the commands required to create specific applications. Practical, accessible, and user-friendly, this book is extensively illustrated and guides the novice ARC/INFO user to real expertise.-- Exercises teach use of the "toolkit".-- Any user with AML knowledge can modify the code supplied on the CD-ROM to save months of GIS application development time.-- Installation instructions for using ARC/INFO on the Windows NT platform are included on the CD-ROM.