Chapter 3:
In the very beginning, the chapter starts off with information and details about the experience builder app, which is what we would be using for pretty much the rest of the chapter. I thought it was interesting because it talked about it as if it were the “end all be all” of webGIS. I think it was somewhat of an understandable explanation because it has overall been pretty easy to use, quite similar to ArcGIS Pro, but quite a bit easier to use. Throughout the beginning of this chapter, it reminded me quite a lot of working with Adobe, which is a system that I always struggled to use, but with the detailed tutorials for this section, it wasn’t too hard to work through. I did have a slight hiccup at the beginning while trying to add the data for the map. I think GIS has definitely continued to be very tedious, and as I add in both the maps for the beginning sections of chapter 3, it was not a very complicated process, but I did accidentally skip over the parts where I needed to actually select the maps, which made it a little confusing, but I eventually figured it out.
Chapter 4:
Throughout the beginning of the chapter, it talks a lot about the advantages of mobile GIS and the avenues that allow for the system to be used and curated in such a way. It mentions how beneficial it is, including how a wider range of people are able to use it, also with the wide range of technologies curated for it as well, mentioning the several apps and systems that were created to support it. On the other hand, it does mention how this creates some technological limitations for the systems as well. In my experience in this course, having a web GIS system has definitely made it quite a lot easier to do the work in this course.
It was also really interesting to learn about the mobile aspects of field work and GIS, which I thought was just fun to learn about since I hope to do field work in the future. It was also interesting learning about Survey123 because I hadn’t really expected there to be a surveying component of GIS, although it makes sense. Also, the differences between web design and Connect that allow for different levels of complexity for the surveys themselves. Tutorials: I was a little confused working on the tutorials for this chapter, especially during 4.3, because the instructions were a little different from what they actually looked like, so I was kind of just clicking around trying to find different stuff in the instructions.
Ideas:
An idea I have, using mainly chapter 3, would be to use the mapping style to track rising water altitudes to also watch the impacts they have on communities, agriculture, etc., in the areas close to such.