Chapter Four:
Chapter four primarily discussed opening previously edited GIS files within ArcGIS pro as well as converting data to suit the needs of the project. I will admit this was a very intimidating thing for me to work on, I’ve mentioned I’m not one for computer science. Interestingly this was actually the easiest part of the chapter as the tutorial was very clear on where/how/whatever to do to import the data into a new map and converting it accordingly.
The latter half of the chapter discussed different ways to interpret quantitative data specified on the map. I absolutely hate mathematics with a passion so naturally this was not a very fun thing for me to do. This was especially evident given that the tutorial has the rather uninteresting example of making census records which did not help. (It was like getting a word problem in a math class.) Though this was somewhat remedied later when example turned to different types of crimes committed in the area in question.
Chapter Five:
I absolutely loved this chapter! It was an absolute breeze to get through and I very much so appreciated the amount of different projections the software offered. It was absolutely fascinating to read about the different practical applications for each projection and how they will influence the geographic results. Then the chapter when on talking about adding data layers and used another census example, this one was significantly easier to get through then the previous one given the lack of quantitative data however.
Chapter Six:
This chapter was rather trivial in my opinion. (My opinion might change when I start working on my own project within this software however) The labeling of land use characteristics as well as assigning the different fire department precincts to the neighborhoods was a very interesting example and a welcome change of pace. I feel like the whole tutorial on merging water features could have been significantly shorter and I really wanted this chapter to elaborate more on what the potential benefits are of just having one “area” of water. I hope my mind will be changed on that opinion as I progress but at the moment I am struggling to see a useful application for that feature.
