Chapter 3
The flexibility and customizability of the experience builder is pretty amazing. Once again the relative simplicity of webGIS is a breath of fresh air. UI design is intuitive and the widget combination process is easy to understand and iterate upon. I can’t see myself using this too much because I don’t plan on making super complicated interactive stuff but it certainly useful to know how to do.
Chapter 4
AHHHH I hate mobile stuff. This whole “post-pc world” thing is absurd. One day sure, but phones just aren’t there yet. They’re finnicky and slow too dumbed down to be useful. I suppose learning this stuff is important for the future but for now its just irritating. All that being said, mobile data collection is fascinating, and the addition of AR and VR support to webGIS is pretty exciting.
Project Idea
Just based on the suggestions for survey123 applications at the end of the tutorial I think it would be really funny to make a crime reporting app and call it something like “brother eye” or “big brother” to really hammer home the 1984 vibes. Honestly I just don’t like working with phones so I don’t find any of these ideas interesting.