Chapter 7
This chapter was easy for me and I actually figured out how to use certain features before being told to by the tutorial. This chapter included a lot of practical skills that I think will be useful to know how to do. This includes moving and rotating polygons as the software is not always 100% accurate and so I know this will be useful. It was fun to be able to create a new feature and is a useful skill.
Chapter 8
This chapter was focused on geocoding and was very short. We learned how to rematch addresses and use other various new tools. Geocoding is the process of converting text-based location descriptions into precise geographic coordinates to plot them as points on a map. This chapter was fairly simple for me.
Chapter 9
This chapter showed us how to use buffers which is a zone around a feature. These are used for drug-free buffers around schools, food deserts, etc. We also learned how to use multiple-ring buffers which are used to create various buffer zones inside each other. We used service areas to estimate a gravity model of geography. 