Chapter 1:
From chapter 1, it starts off by giving a brief history of the evolution of GIS and expands on its uses: government, local, business, and public use. I thought it was interesting that the chapter mentions the growth of Arc GIS after covid. GIS provides an opportunity for people to create content but also allows people to discover. The chapter also introduces the term “geo portal” which just refers to the gateway of web sources. Mobile and cloud GIS allow the information to become more mobile. GIS is also expanding its intelligence by using AI to scan and implement data. I liked how the chapter had a chart that represented the main types of GIS and had the privileges and apps on the chart. The chapter also defines tools, base maps, and operational layers, and describes how those components of a web GIS map. Next, the chapter introduces and defines hosted: a situation in which web service in based on Arc GIS- managed data, and non hosted: a situation where a web service connects directly to user-managed data. The chapter explains how photos and other media is important to GIS because it can show things that may be invisible to just the human eye. From the tutorial, I was able to download data and add it to my new file. I ran into a problem by not being able to find the tabs that it was showing in the pictures so that was a little discouraging . But I was able to get familiar to the process of downloading data and looking at the maps in the OWU Maps GIS.
Chapter 2:
This chapter begins by identifying the importance of web layers in GIS. It also defines the different types of layers. I liked the chart that showed the different types of mapping styles with a description and a photo. The chapter also goes into describing the way in which the information is presented almost in a story-like way because of the pop-ups and narration and how they can contribute to the map. In tutorial 2, we were able to upload chapter 2’s data and configure the layers by using the smart map tools. I still had a little trouble navigating through the online website so I think I will probably need to come back to this. But overall I enjoyed reading about new topics and seeing how they applied in the maps.