Chapter 7: This chapter showed how 3D web scenes can be applied to certain areas. Something that the chapter mentioned that I thought was very intriguing was the use of point cloud layers to map. Through creating this layer and then changing the colors to be more accurate to the actual land, a picture is made that helps the viewer visualize the land without having an exact image of it. Something else that the chapter mentioned was the use of phone tracing apps to monitor where people are. This is super cool, but I would not have thought about the issues that I could run into with buildings that have multiple floors. Through the 3d Mapping in this chapter, I learned how to combat that. Because certain objects are on different Z layers that control their height. This chapter was very interesting because I essentially got to build my own map and customize it with 3D images and symbols. Additionally, I learned how to create a map displaying varying populations across a large area. It was also very intriguing to see how mapping works underground, and how so many different features can be displayed within one map.
An application of the skills I learned in this chapter would be creating a 3D map displaying my house, the trees around it, our patio furniture, and my old playset.