Hello everyone, my name is Evan Rose. I am a very late addition to this class and will be catching up as I go so thatās why you have never seen my posts before and the reason why I am at week 1. I am a Health and Human Kinetics General major and I have never used this program before as I was not in GEOG 291 last module.Ā
Spend a few minutes poking around your account, including the icon in the upper-right corner, which takes you to your profile. Add your basic information to My Profile. Also, look at My Settings, My ESRI, Training, Community and Forums, ArcGIS Blog, and Help. Jot down two comments about what you find (for the blog entry for this Lab).
- I did not find anything interesting in the MyProfile, MySettings, or MyESRI. Just normal basic and boring things on those pages.
- I found the Training, Community and Forums, and ArcGIS Blog interesting as there is so much to do on this program and this is reflected on the myriad amount of training, forum posts, and blog posts on these pages.
Use some ESRI resources to learn a bit about ArcGIS Online. Complete a read-through of Get Started: What Is ArcGIS Online. This should take about 30 minutes. Read through the different sections of this web page (stacked along the left of the page) and jot down two comments about what you find (for the blog entry for this Lab).
- ArcGIS is a very vast program that lets the user explore and visualize 2D and 3D data. This comes in the form of maps, scenes, apps, and notebooks. Through this users can share and even collaborate with others based on their own work and research.
- I find it very interesting that when creating an app on ArcGIS it can either be hosted by ArcGIS, reside on your organizationās servers, or even use a third party resource such as Amazon to publish the application.Ā
Web Course: ArcGIS Online Basics
- Web apps allow users how to interact with web maps and scenes. They provide a more focused experience with more potential for context and utility. Users can create these apps even if they have no programming experience which is good because I donāt!
- Through these maps and apps, you can view very nuanced spatial concepts from certain landscapes and can either view and collect data privately or share with others.
Use Google and Google Scholar to look into a few GIS application areas: search for āArcOnlineā and different keywords, based on your personal interest: cat telemetry, queer online mapping, blind dung beetles, antifa, cop killings, stamp collectors, crowdsourcing, etc.). Include, in the blog posting, information on two applications with at least one map or image and a source or two.
- One thing I like to study and look into is food security or lack there of around the United States. When looking for ArcOnline applications involving this I found that it was used to map out areas of food insecurity and different landmarks that could lead to this.
https://link-springer-com.owu.idm.oclc.org/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-03273-9_8
- Another thing I looked at was the rates of obesity. ArcGIS was used in a study to mark hot spots and areas that are at risk for childhood obesity in Portugal. From this data they are able to come up with ways to combat this risk and increase the health of others in these areas.Ā