{"id":5179,"date":"2025-09-12T15:25:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T20:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/?p=5179"},"modified":"2025-09-12T15:25:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T20:25:52","slug":"datta-week-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/2025\/09\/12\/datta-week-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Datta &#8211; Week 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did the chapters and the assignments; less notes because all of this feels pretty intuitive to me, and I try to write notes to help a future me, yknow?<\/p>\n<p>CHAPTER 1:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A basemap is located in the map section on the top bar and it can be removed in the contents page<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Layers are ordered top to bottom on the contents menu<\/li>\n<li>You can check all map files, database files, and others in the catalog menu under view<\/li>\n<li>You can implement data points with addresses and websites on a GIS map<\/li>\n<li>Scrolling is standard for most things with a scroll but you can use full extent to zoom out fully and previous extent to go back<\/li>\n<li>Rastors, just like in photoshop, arent pixel based<\/li>\n<li>Bookmarks save a spot zoomed into a specific amount<\/li>\n<li>You can change symbols under symbology when you right click an attribute<\/li>\n<li>3d exists and is cool<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>chap 1 screenshot:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5182\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/chap1screenie-300x247.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/chap1screenie-300x247.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/chap1screenie.png 646w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5183\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-09-152129-300x215.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-09-152129-300x215.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-09-152129-768x551.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-09-152129.png 986w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>CHAP 2:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Zoning and Land use is best used in close range<\/li>\n<li>You can assign multiple symbologies to one thing in the contents tab\n<ul>\n<li>This is how you do graduated colors and symbols<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>you can disable duplicate labels using the conflict resolution tab in labelling<\/li>\n<li>You can turn maps into 3D, extruding them by value<\/li>\n<li>In symbology options you can import symbologies from different layers<\/li>\n<li>Dot densities can be editted for how much a dot represents and all that stuff<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>chap 2 screenshots<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5210\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-11-121948-300x255.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-11-121948-300x255.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-11-121948-768x654.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-11-121948.png 773w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5211\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-11-125548-300x226.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-11-125548-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-11-125548-768x579.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-11-125548-829x622.png 829w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-11-125548.png 904w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>CHAP 3:<\/p>\n<p>Chapter 3 dealt with making maps for people who don&#8217;t know GIS.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You make new layouts in the insert catagory<\/li>\n<li>when you add a new map in full extent you have to click drag it out to a desired size and then adjust it some more<\/li>\n<li>You can make graphs under the &#8220;data&#8221; category found when you click on a content layer<\/li>\n<li>Web maps are a lot easier to setup than expected, its just a button press<\/li>\n<li>You can use storymaps to make websites pretty similarly to how you&#8217;d make a website in google sites, if thats still a thing. I think carrd is similar but I&#8217;ve never used that<\/li>\n<li>On webGIS you can make dashboards by going to your account profile and clicking the 9 square icon and finding &#8220;dashboards&#8221; like in google accounts<\/li>\n<li>Dashboards also feel familiar. Not sure where from.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>chap 3 screenshots:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5269\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Stateartsemployeement-300x86.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"86\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Stateartsemployeement-300x86.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Stateartsemployeement-1024x292.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Stateartsemployeement-768x219.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Stateartsemployeement.jpg 1241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5270\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-12-154731-300x140.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-12-154731-300x140.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-12-154731-1024x476.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-12-154731-768x357.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-12-154731-1536x715.png 1536w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/208\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-2025-09-12-154731.png 1543w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did the chapters and the assignments; less notes because all of this feels pretty intuitive to me, and I try to write notes to help a future me, yknow? CHAPTER 1: A basemap is located in the map section on the top bar and it can be removed in the contents page \u00a0Layers are ordered top to bottom on the contents menu You can check all map files, database files, and others in the catalog menu under view You can implement data points with addresses and websites on a GIS map Scrolling is standard for most things with a scroll but you can use full extent to zoom out fully and previous extent to go back Rastors, just like in photoshop, arent pixel based Bookmarks save a spot zoomed into a specific amount You can change symbols under symbology when you right click an attribute 3d exists and is cool chap 1 screenshot: CHAP 2: Zoning and Land use is best used in close range You can assign multiple symbologies to one thing in the contents tab This is how you do graduated colors and symbols you can disable duplicate labels using the conflict resolution tab in labelling You can turn maps into 3D, extruding them by value In symbology options you can import symbologies from different layers Dot densities can be editted for how much a dot represents and all that stuff chap 2 screenshots &nbsp; CHAP 3: Chapter 3 dealt with making maps for people who don&#8217;t know GIS. You make new layouts in the insert catagory when you add a new map in full extent you have to click drag it out to a desired size and then adjust it some more You can make graphs under the &#8220;data&#8221; category found when you click on a content layer Web maps are a lot easier to setup than expected, its just a button press You can use storymaps to make websites pretty similarly to how you&#8217;d make a website in google sites, if thats still a thing. I think carrd is similar but I&#8217;ve never used that On webGIS you can make dashboards by going to your account profile and clicking the 9 square icon and finding &#8220;dashboards&#8221; like in google accounts Dashboards also feel familiar. Not sure where from. chap 3 screenshots:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-course-student-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5179"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5271,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5179\/revisions\/5271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-291\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}