Author: adveerjee

Chapter 3: Experience Builder

This is mostly for a more complicated way to create apps, maps, and more. Things an experience builder could include: components such as pages, windows, and outline views. It could also include various widgets such as functional & layout widgets. Widgets are classified into two groups, message actions & data actions. When using a message action, it listens to various triggers and performs assigned actions. For data actions, they provide actions to a button that users are able to click on, a usage could be to export records to a file. 

• Tutorial 1: Creating a basic webpage that included 2 different maps, an image, and methods of switching between the two of them through a view selector. 
• Tutorial 2:This was more about how to create various actions for the data, in this case it was the action of making sure the the maps of 2d & 3d match, and with selections when the 2d points are selected, only those ones will appear on the 3d map. These are done by utilizing the action tab that appears once map tabs are selected under the outline window.
• Tutorial 3: This was mostly about how to add a text box that included statistics. It is fairly similar to things we have done in ArcGIS pro, except as a presentation-like format. From this point forward, I have realized I am messing up the styles/formats of the web experience, however I am going to just add the features & try to salvage it as best as I can.
• Tutorial 4: This tutorial was about how to create a table & how to make it so it displays certain fields in a specific order. Also adding a search bar & filters for the data.

• Tutorial 5: When adding a filter I will want to use an SQL expression to ensure that the map itself flows. I can choose various criteria that I want my maps to be filtered by. I got pretty lost halfway through, but from what I am able to judge, I am also able to make filters for the table that I had added in the previous tutorial  & also be able to make a donut chart. And when going through the actions, I am able to trigger something to spawn a chart for various data that I give said chart. 
• Tutorial 6: This felt like it brought everything that we have made together, and I believe I misunderstood some instructions referring to the cosmetic effects of the main page. This tab was about making a header & more pages with the ability to swap between them.

Chapter 4: Mobile GIS

There are many reasons why Mobile GIS is useful, such as mobility, locational awareness, ease of data collection, real-time info, large user volume, and many ways to communicate. GIS is useful in a bunch of different technologies. I will want to be careful in concern to the utilization of the web interface as phones are needing more simplistic designs. There are three main schools of thought when it comes to app development strategies: 

1. Browser based – which is using apps through mobile web browsers. This will be fairly limiting the user’s experience as it will not be utilizing the phone’s features.
2. Native-based approach – which will be using a mole app, a disadvantage for that would be learning skills for the coding languages 
3. Hybrid-Based approach – A combination of both native & browser based approaches

• Tutorial 1: To get to the ‘set rule’ option, go into edit, then find ‘behavior’. And instead of ‘If show’, go to the thing you want to see, and then select the conditional. This is very similar to a software such as Google Forms
• Tutorial 2: I thought it was fairly cool that I could use Survey123 to submit data from my phone. It seems fairly intuitive to collect data & be able to check them out using the page.
• Tutorial 3: I had gotten very lost early on in this section. I think it is because I screwed something up within the tutorial section for the surveys. However from what i can gather, thiss will be tying the survey itself to sync with a feature layer by going into where the survey is collecting responses. I can add a new field for the various different types of data being collected and make them appear as points on the map. And they will appear as lines within the map. 
• Tutorial 4: Same issue as tutorial three, but here is what I was able to gather from the tutorial, this will be adding some form of visibility layer with conditional statements. This will be done by adding another layer, and adding various expressions to make it “Incident_Type == Pothole”, for example. And this will allow a user to filter the different types of data within the map. 
• Tutorial 5: It appears that in this tutorial I am able to use another app in order to compile data to put directly into my field map rather than filling out a form to put into the map by using skills from tutorial 4.
• Tutorial 6: In tutorial 6 we are using the map created in tutorial 3,  this will be using the quick capture software to do. And this will be a great way to include a user-friendly app interface that includes icons for each type of thing you want input on. 
• Tutorial 7: This is just showing how to utilize what was made in Tutorial 6.
• Tutorial 8:  Utilizing AR will be a way to add more context for the things made in the previous sections. 
• Tutorial 9: Utilizing AR will be a way to add more context for the things made in the previous sections.

 

Application description based on Ch 3 & 4 using my data:

• Create a web experience. (Ch 3)
• Creating a survey form for a department to report suspicious activities will be a really good use for GIS tech, maybe creating something for Public Safety? (Ch 4)

Chapter 1: There are a lot of reasons to be using webGIS for more major projects that are meant to be publicized. Some of the reasons they have listed are: Global reach, large number of users, low costs per users, better cross-platform capabilities, ease of usage, and easy to maintain. Some of the main organizations or reasons to use it, and reasons why I may use it in the future are for Business and Governmental use, however I was interested to see that people use Web GIS for their daily life. A majority of the stuff brought here seem fairly basic, yet good information to keep in mind while working on maps. Such as the dominance that phones currently hold in the information technology world for the average person. It also reminds us on how some of the different types of data interact. The first tutorial was more about how to upload data into webgis & share it. The second tutorial was more about how to add a field and add some data through the web page. The third tutorial was about how to add the feature layer into a proper web map. I had not been able to find the community map, so I decided to just use the streets map. It was pretty cool to make a functioning webpage for a map.

Chapter 2: This chapter overall is a little more ‘intense’ than the previous one. There is a lot of focus/emphasis on the creation of feature layers and the techniques of doing these feature layers. Tutorial 1 had a good review on how to implement data & how to change a few of the fields’ names. Tutorial 2 had more symbiology work, in this case it was a comparison between the population of 10 years prior and to a set date. Tutorial three was pretty cool by having me create an expression and using the data to appear on my pop-ups, I know that I will need more practice doing this to fully remember it. Tutorial four was about how to add various types of media in the popups window, particularly links, images, and charts using the data that is saved in the csv. The fifth tutorial I got stuck on towards the end as I was a little confused on how the map actions worked, however the rest was fairly intuitive as it was setting up a storymap. I think these will be pretty interesting to utilize, especially for things like the trip project that I will likely be doing. Tutorial 6 was more about how to add a swipe block to use map activities. I will likely want to use this for if I were to make a story map to say ‘hey, we will be going here, here and here’, which may be a great strategy for the vacation idea.

Description of an application of WebGIS using my data or that from Geog 291:

• Landmarks around my city. I can find a bunch of important buildings and take pictures of them from my city. As my hometown is so small, I will likely be able to find or take pictures over a weekend. I will then attach it all to a single map and make an app out of it. (Ch 1)
  

Hello! My name is Aiden Veerjee, I am a Junior and I come from Johnstown Ohio. My major is in Quantitative Economics and I have a minor in Geography. I am in Alpha Sigma Phi, I am in the Economics & Business student board, and I am the Comptroller for WCSA (Student Government), I am also the President for our school’s Investment Club.

My account:

1. After looking around, I forgot that I made a StoryMap for Geog291, I thought it was cool to revisit it after a while.
2. I also think it’s cool that the website itself had courses to make people more proficient at using it.

What Is ArcGIS Online?

1. I do think it is very useful to be able to access ArcGIS Online both through computers and phones. I would like to see some of the applications of being able to utilize ArcGIS via a mobile device.
2. And it seems like that the principles and fundamentals that we have learned in 291 are going to be at a much greater use when bringing stuff we can make more easily into a fully fledged webpage.

ArcGIS Online Basics:

1. Creating apps seems like an important & useful function that I will be learning a lot more about during this course.
2. Keeping things visible and easier to understand seems like a key concept that I should keep in mind for this course as well.
3. There are plenty of online resources that I am able to use.

GIS Applications:

1. I had looked up ‘ArcOnline crowdsourcing’ in google scholar and found an article about how someone used ArcGIS Online to compare crowdsourcing to natural resource management. I found this application pretty interesting, especially with one of the points they had brought up with giving people to report an invasive aquatic fern via GIS applications.
2. And as the election is drawing near, I wanted to take a look and see if there were a lot of electoral uses of ArcOnline, and sure enough there were quite a few.