Chapter 5 was interesting to work on. It focused on the ArcGIS enterprise which was a little confusing at first. I learned about what caching was and why it is important especially for highly accessed sites. This chapter also contained a lot of graphs and charts explaining how files work and operate. The steps on ArcGIS were pretty easy to follow and didn’t cause many issues. It was interesting to see the difference between raster and vector tile layers and things like how they are stored or updated.
Chapter 6 focused more on the visualization of the data developed and talked about it chapter 5. I thought this was interesting to visualize and actually see what was going on. This chapter also gave a bunch of pictures and charts to show how things are related or work together rather than just explaining it. When working on the tutorials in ArcGIS online it took a little bit of time to follow the steps and complete it. Taking a computer science and programming course it was also cool to see how coding comes into play in this chapter as well. Overall, I thought the chapter was interesting and important for learning how to use GIS.
An application involving these chapters could be a fisherman tracking where they caught fish on a lake. You could make the map use caching so the map is quick and easier to load. Once the person catches a fish you could use a gauge to chart how many fish they caught and the total weight or length of the fish.