Chapter 5, Caching and on-premises Web GIS, begins by using ArcGIS Enterprise, which allows you to create, manage, and share maps and spatial data. I began this tutorial by adding a portal connection by clicking Add Portal and entering the URL that the textbook provided. After adding the portal,I published a vector tile by inputting the information from the tutorial. Sharing this vector tile allows everyone to be able to view this web layer. Following this step, I then published a raster tile layer and compared both the raster tile layer and the vector tile layer to view the differences between the two tile layers and concluded chapter 5’s tutorial.
Chapter 6 I found to be slightly more engaging than the previous chapter but was also more challenging for me. I began this tutorial by creating a web map, then following by creating a dashboard app and adding a meter gauge that makes the data easy to interpret. This dashboard app, when finished, compiles the map, data, and various diagrams and gauges into one page that is easy to read. After this step I added a category selector using the Add element button once again. This allowed me to configure actions and targets for this dashboard. The next step, configuring the advanced format using arcade, I found to be the most difficult section of this tutorial because I missed a small section of the code that the textbook tutorial said to copy which caused it to not work properly so I had to go back and try again. After this step of copying and pasting the code, the next step was to create a time-enabled feature layer, which required viewing the data layers and navigating to the chapter files and adding the new item. To finish this chapter’s tutorial, I animated the time series data, which gave the map the navigable time window to view the differences between the years.
Using the concepts from these two chapters, an application of these concepts could be a historical comparison of a city’s development using these dashboard apps. Creation of a dashboard app that displays a historical overview of a City’s development over the year while utilizing the various gauges and data display that we used in the chapters would allow for an understandable format to view the map.