Chapter 7
The flow chart on page 230 was very helpful in understanding which platforms do what for which types of jobs that need to be done. I learned about the two main types of web scenes, which are photorealistic (which aim to recreate photos and textures); this type of web scene would be used to recreate surroundings. I also learned about cartographic web scenes (which are used to take 2D data and make it 3DĀ by extruding values). VR was not something that I really thought of before when thinking about GIS and applications, however, it makes a lot of sense. The Venn diagram on page 241 was helpful in understanding where VR, MR, and AR lie as an XR and their scale between presence and immersive. The indoor GIS was also very cool to think about in terms of VR and other game-based applications. A potential application from this chapter would be using Delaware data to create a cartographic web scene of land ownership within the county to show which areas have the most ownership for potential tax reasons.