Chapter 3:
Chapter 3 provides an overview of ArcGIS Experience Builder. Readers learn the basics of the platform and its features. These include creating HTML and JavaScript apps, 2D and 3D web apps, widgets, flexible layouts, action triggers, and adaptable frameworks. All this is contained within a minimum of 1 page containing one or more windows. These pages can use basic or layout widgets for data or message actions.
This chapter’s tutorial guides the user to create a web experience. It requires the user to create a 2D and 3D web experience. It covers configuring map message actions, dynamic content, and various widgets (table, filter, and chart). Including creating and navigating within multiple pages.
Application: I would create an application to display changes in vegetation and population (with 2 maps). The 2D map would show areas that have significantly lost vegetation using a gradient map. A 3D map would show areas where populations are growing. Map mirroring would be used along with later pages containing specific data of the area chosen.
Chapter 4:
Chapter 4 discusses the use of Mobile GIS, which has been becoming more popular due to the rising use of smartphones. Being utilized for smart devices, mobile operating systems, wireless communication, and positioning technologies. Mobile GIS offers users many benefits, including portability, location awareness, easy data collection, real-time information, large user volume, and versatile communication. This makes it a good choice for indoor and field operations, where ArcGIS offers various applications for these tasks.
In this chapter’s tutorial, readers learn how to use operational applications. Survey123 is one of them, allowing users to design smart surveys, capture field data, store survey results, and collect data. FieldMaps improves data capture, while QuickCapture is designed to capture field observations much faster. The last application in the tutorial is AuGeo, using augmented reality to visualize data.
Application: I would create an application to visualize sightings of the invasive spotted lantern fly. The survey would include the following: date, time, and location. I would add a description box so users can describe what they saw, including adding a photo of the scene. A map would be created from this data to show recent sightings of this specific insect.