Chapter One:
This chapter was kind of a basic introduction chapter of all the concepts needed to understand Web GIS. Web GIS is the combination of the web and geographic information systems. The first operational GIS was made in the 60s. Since then GIS has developed from a local file-based single computer system to a central database clients/server system.
WebGIS has many advantages including the following:
Global Reach: You can share geographic information easily, within your organization and with people all over the world.
Large number of users: You can share your app with dozens, or even millions supported by scalable cloud technology
Low cost: per user: The cost of building one web gis app is lower than building a desktop solution
Better Cross-platform capabilities: web apps can run on desktop and mobile platforms
Easy to use: Web GIS apps incorporate simplicity and intuition.
Easy to maintain: web clients can benefit from the latest programs and data updates each time they access a web app.
This chapter shows you how to create web maps in a few different ways.
Chapter Two:
Types of hosted layers-
Hosted feature layers: these layers support vector feature querying, visualization, and editing. Most appropriate for visualizing data on top of your base maps.
Hosted Web Feature Service layers: These layers are open geospatial consortium WFS standard-compliant
Hosted tile Layers: these layers support fast map visualization using a collection of pre-drawn map images or tiles
Hosted vector tile layers: These layers reference a set of web-accessible tiles containing 2D and 3D vector content and the corresponding style for how those tiles should be drawn
Hosted web map tile service layers: these layers are OGC WMTS standard-compliant
Hosted scene layers: These layers support fast map visualization of 3D data using a collection of cached tiles.
Hosted image layers: These layers can display raster data by dynamically combining various bands, and they support the dynamic analysis of raster data such as imagery and other information captured by remote sensing devices.
Hosted map image layers: This layer type is supported in ArcGIS Enterprise 10.8 and later
Mapping Styles:
Heat map: Displayers the relative density of points as smoothly varying sets of colors ranging from cool to hot.
Color and size: Using the symbol color and size to show one or two numeric fields
Compare A to B: Displayed the relationship between two numeric fields using ratio or percentage
Relationship: Visualizes the relationship between two number fields using bivariate choropleth mapping
Dot density: Uses dot density to display the distribution of one or more numeric fields
Predominant: Displayed the predominant category or level of predominance among two or more fields.
Type and size: Represents the numeric fields by size and category fields by color
Continuous timeline: Uses colors or sizes to represent data sequentially from new to old
Vector field: Uses direction and magnitude to display imagery data.
This chapter also teaches us how to create a feature layer using geocoding, how to configure layer style using smart mapping, configure layer pop-ups using ArcGIS Arcade, and more.
- In 291, I think I did a map of all parcels in Delaware County selected that have 4 or more bedrooms so a salesman would know where to sell his pillows. I could now use a dot density map to target the neighborhoods with more people in them so he could have a wider variety of where people live.