I will have to admit, I did not expect chapter 7 to be that long. I probably should have.
Chapter 7 was actually my favorite. I found many of the 3D maps on the software GIS to be purely data focused and as a result, kind of boring. I do think that the web GIS maps offer significantly more as far as a geographic experience goes and I realized through reading this that I had experience with this in high school where my German teacher built a 3D map of Berlin foe us to explore in VR with data points and historical markers pretty much everywhere. (Though I don’t plan on using VR for the final project in this course however.)
The most interesting part of this entire chapter in my opinion was the ability to add feature layers with benches, mailboxes and other street junk. I tried to boot up one of the 3D maps to play around with this but I found it to be very lagging. I don’t know if it was just my computer or if it was just too much information for a web browser to handle but I hope to give it another shot soon as the 3D maps look very interesting.