Chapter 3
This chapter looked into ArcGIS Experience Builder and how it is a highly configurable app. The first section of this tutorial (3.1) took a look at how to use Experience Builder to create a web app that can display historical earthquakes and hurricanes in 2D and 3D maps. I found these instructions to be vey straightforward and it was interesting to see the comparison. I really liked how specific each function was and found this to be a useful tool and my only main issue was with finding where specific things that the instructions were leading you to as I think the layout of the overall app has changed and I think some of the stuff required you to select something for it to show up. It wasn’t hard to figure it out it was just annoying that these instructions weren’t as straightforward considering that everything else has been easy to follow.
Chapter 4
This chapter looked into Mobile GIS and I found it interesting how it was saying that the Survey123 can be used to recognize specific things such as leaves or street signs. The first part of this chapter focused on explaining how to create a survey which was super easy to follow and reminded me a lot of Google Forms. The app was a little bit unnecessary to download as you could just get the link from the QR code provided to test the survey. Survey123 seemed like a good way to collect to data and I liked the way the data was laid out. I had some issues with the app as it kept crashing but that might just be my phone. I thought it was interesting overall to see just how much we are moving towards data collection on smart devices rather then the traditional data collection through computers which is interesting because it just means that collecting data is going to become more accessible and easier to do and maybe possibly even more accurate.
Based on these ideas I think this could be used in Delaware to report specific incidents by using Survey123 which could be linked to a map so that people are aware of where incidents occur.