Roberts week 4

Chapter 1
I know I’m doing this late. I forgot to make a post about it when I did it.
Chapter one showed me just how overconfident I was about this software. Not only did I accidentally start with the wrong tutorial, but it was a little frustrating reading through the correct tutorial and a lot of it just felt like the whole “click this, then click that” which I personally find to be a bit annoying.

 

Chapter 2

This one I am going to go a little more in detail about because I found this chapter to be highly finicky to deal with. Especially the feature of turning the map into a 3D plane and modifying the properties of the different areas on the map, neither of which I could fully do, particularly the 3D map which just straight up would not work. I was excited for this chapter since it would introduce the concept of creating points on a map (in the example they are food banks and whatnot) but it seems that in this tutorial all of these were immovable locations pre determined by the computer. (Either that or my hard drive remembered someone doing the tutorial last semester.) Changing the color of the different areas on the map was very fun though.

Chapter 3

At the risk of sounding pedantic, this was definitely the chapter I cared for the least, as it shifted away from the technical aspects of the software and leaned in hard on the online features of publishing and sharing the data through the ArcGIS servers.

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