Month: April 2025

My name is Daniela Flores and I’m from Pennsylvania. I’m a sophomore, environmental science major.

I’m familiar with arcGIS since I took GIS 291 before spring break. I was familiar with the website and found it rewarding that I already knew how easy it was to navigate. It was cool to explore the new website and sort of start over in a way, learning the basics but through a different lens. The online basics training helped me go back into my memory at the start of 291 and really grind the foundational skills into my brain so I could learn them. Meow I really enjoyed the format of the basic training, it was simple information you could learn along with the quiz that helped confirm you learned the topics. I liked learning about things we had used in arcGIS, and learning what they are used for. 

One of my favorite ways GIS mapping is used is shark and sea life tracking. The website OCEARCH is a website that tracks sea life like turtles, seals, sharks and dolphins, with this they are able to see things like migration patterns that we have never seen before. Another GIS application is ASPCA to look at the locations of animals in their shelters, and most at risk to reduce shelter intake, and help the shelters that need it more.

Chapter 3

Learning about the experience builder was very cool, and I think that this type of tool will allow people who might not be familiar with GIS to fully engage with the maps and take an interest into the respective topic. The tutorials seemed to be very helpful when navigating the online interface. I also found that the question and answers section was useful for troubleshooting issues.

 

Chapter 4

I thought the little remark about the post PC era was interesting and actually very thought provoking. I tend to group all of technology together and honestly forget what it would be like to not have all of the devices that I have now. Mobile GIS seems to be very useful when you need to access data with the tip of your fingers. I also thought that the table that organizes the sharing of feature layers made it much easier to understand. The section on Rapid Data Collection was also very cool!

Application Ideas

I can see how both of these sections are useful for people out in the field or for people who might not be completely familiar with the backend of GIS and just need to access the data rather than build a map. I think an application for both of these sections would be in the public health field, where someone needs to access data about addresses and their specific municipality to understand where cases of a disease are clustered. Then, out in the field using some true boot strap epi, using the mobile app would allow you to access data and use this to your advantage when identifying issues.

Data inventory

I did this in 291!

Selecting Ideas

I am thinking of going the public health and epidemiology route to try to use concepts from chapter 3 with data from the Delaware Data Inventory in a way that could be applicable to the health department.

Hi, My name is Jes Powell and I am from the Cayman Islands.  I am currently a senior and doing a major in Studio Art.  

For Week 1 the first thing I did was look around my ArcGIS Online account which I was already semi familiar with as I took GEOG 291 during the first half of this semester.  I looked at My Settings, ESRI, Training, Community and Forums, ArcGISBlog and Help which I had already seen some of these from the previous section of this class when one of the tutorials required us to create something on the website.

When doing a read-through of Get Started: What is ArcGIS Online it was pretty basic and standard information.  It laid out the basics for using ArcGIS Online along with what it is useful for.      

The training course, ArcGIS Online Basics was easy to follow through and had a visualization of the information presented which made it easier to understand.  The quizzes were also easy to do and were placed in a way that made it easier to recap each section which was useful.  

The last thing I had to do for this week was to go on Google Scholar and look at something based on my own personal interests.  I started with doing a general search of GIS applications related to birds and found an article on a Bird Migration and how ArcGIS online was used to create a story map that provides information on bird migration through animation maps that show the routes of different species of birds.  My second search was related to the population of stray cats in specific areas which led me to an ArcGIS online story map which was not related to stray cats. It was still interesting as it took a look at how GIS was used to save their cat.  They used GIS to look at the map of sewer networks and stormwater lines and used it to map where they needed to be to get their cat.

 

Source:

https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/story-maps/mapping/telling-the-story-of-bird-migration

https://explorer.audubon.org/explore/species/1469/american-white-pelican/migration?sidebar=collapse&selectedHex=&zoom=3&x=-787128.6037500007&y=2377104.4919&range=0.0350%2C0.0550

<https://storymaps.com/stories/fa56126cacc641c6bde9562ac7b2a7cb>