CHAPTER 1- The Absolute Basics, And a Brief History
- WebGIS is cheaper and more user friendly than typical GIS
- Can be used for all sorts of applications- even daily life.
- ArcGIS is hosted by amazon (booo. Insert thumbs down here.)
- COVID had a major boom on ArcGIS usage (and cloud usage in general)
- The John Hopkins COVID-19 tracker was an ArcGIS project
- Hosted vs Nonhosted:
- Hosted data is data stored in the cloud database
- Nonhosted is data which is stored locally
CHAPTER 2 – Basic info on layers and Pop-ups (and some other stuff)
- Types of Hosted Layers:
- Feature Layers
- Web Feature service layers
- Tile Layers
- Vector Tile
- Vector tile service
- Scene
- Image
- Map Image
- There are quite a few ways you can style your map, all which best convey different information
- Pop ups are a way to display further information
- Arcade allows you to post more info that isnt in an attribute field
- Living Atlas is a database of datasets which are usable by anyone with an ArcGIS account
- WebGIS stories is fast and easy to use and make
TUTORIAL:
I did the 2nd Tutorial which goes over how to present population change patterns and such on a story map.