chapter 7
I enjoyed completing chapter 7, especially the first few tutorials, where I got to just move around and adjust the outlines of buildings and correct them. It was fun to do but it also made a lot of sense. I liked that there were only 4 in this one, I was able to take in each tutorial really fast and go back through to make sure I fully understood. I actually really enjoyed doing these ones because I have gotten much more accustomed to all the contols like adding features, symbols, bookmarks, and the repetitive tabs.
chapter 8
It was really easy to do these ones, considering it was only 2 tutorials, but I still feel like I gained a lot from them and got valuable knowledge on Geocoding and analyzing locations, plus learning about things with zipcodes. Most of the infomation was stuff I had begun to feel confident with, doing things with the creating locator, for example, went smoothly. When rematching attendees by zipcode on 8-2 I got a bit lost at a certain part where I had to click the match button for the zipcodes, for some reason it wouldn’t load for me. Also, the create locator section kept resetting on me and deleting my data.
chapter 9
This one had the most tutorials technically but it still wasnt a long time to get through. Buffers were something I had been confused on before too, so i liked being reintroduced to this chapter. I know you use them to find whats near the features being buffered, but seeing them in action helped a lot. 9-1 and 9-2 on the swimming pools in Pittsburgh and estimating the number of youths was really quick and easy. I also thought it was cool how it highlighted the ones within half a mile. I also thought the dissolve option was really neat, helping with overlapping buffer rings helps make it much better to look at.
9-3 it estimates gravity models of geography, you can see the amount of attraction between two features. I had trouble figuring this part out, it was probably the hardest for me out of all the units. It wasnt that bad but I kept getting stuck at the parts where it would ask me to click the service area layer, it would genuinely not give me what I needed, it took me a second to try and figure out how to get through these tutorials at the end but it was still cool. I think analyzing the optimal soltuions and doing your turn was difficult, but it was also a pretty informative.
