Powell Week 2

Chapter 1

The first chapter went over the basic concepts of Web GIS and looks at some of the tools available.  I found these instructions to be very clear and found that it showed a good idea of the basics of what Web GIS has to offer.  The pictures shown in these tutorials were very easy to follow and were super helpful by being a guide to make sure that I am in the correct place for the steps.

Chapter 2

This chapter looked more into different types of layers along with the concept of story telling in Web GIS.  This chapter was easy to follow as a lot of it were things I had previously seen throughout the first half of this class (GEOG 291).  I felt as though creating the layers was very similar on Web GIS as it was on the Desktop version (ARCGIS) which was nice as I was familiar with the content.  When it came to tutorial 2-3 I was having some issues with getting it to work as but overall everything else was pretty easy to follow.

An application based on ideas from Chapters 1 & 2 could be looking at the use of mapping to see the specific attributes of the population that is impacted by Delaware being a food desert.

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