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My name is Darren Robinson, a new Ohio Wesleyan University student starting my first semester here. I transferred from Columbus State Community College after completing the Associate of Science Program in May of this year. One of my favorite things to do is to learn. This can take the form of reading books, watching informational YouTube videos, and my all-time favorite: going to museums. More specifically, natural history or historical museums!
In this mid-semester course, users will focus on ArcGIS Online. In which, I have used it before, but not extensively.Looking around, My Profile is your run of the mill profile and account settings. Forums and blogs are a more community centric medium, like Reddit or Twitter. Before really diving in, it’s important to know what you are getting yourself into. ArcGIS Online has a Get Started page that provides an overview of the platform, information on account creation, and how to work within the online application. Most, if not all, of the material when it comes to working with maps or scenes, content, and data has been mentioned previously in GEOG 291. ArcGIS Online offers training courses for a variety of things. This course requires us to take the Basic Online course. Teaching users the fundamental aspects and what those can potentially offer. Overall, this course was very useful and showed us how to navigate the platform.
This cloud based software as a service platform can display various things. For example, it could show the percentage of people considered in poverty. Using varying shades of red from dark to light to represent high and low percentages, respectively.
Source: “ACS Poverty Status Variables – Boundaries.” (https://webgis.dor.wa.gov/portal/home/item.html?id=0e468b75bca545ee8dc4b039cbb5aff6&sublayer=0)
Another use case could be to show the cover of tree canopy in a given area. Using varying shades of green from dark to light to represent high and low coverages, respectively.
Source: “Community Tree Canopy Summaries” , The Morton Arboretum (https://mortonarb.org/plant-and-protect/chicago-region-trees-initiative/community-tree-canopy-summaries/)