Author: babecker

https://owugis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/countdown/index.html?appid=dac3a1e876244a25853f421692a11540

This map gives information on the various private schools in the Cuyahoga County area.

 

https://arcg.is/CbnHW2

This map shows my hometown Berea, Ohio and has the ability to toggle 3D building shapes to get a better idea of the configuration of the city.

Chapter 7

• • 3D maps have advantages with data visualization, analysis, and communication
  • 3D maps often more preferred for users
  • Scenes in 3D maps can be divided into two main types:

• Photorealistic- recreate reality using photos to texture features

• Cartographic- take 2D thematic mappings and convert them into 3D

• • Four types of elements in scenes:

• Surfaces- continuous measurements with one value for a given x,y location

• • • • Digital elevation model (DEM)
      • Digital terrain model (DTM)
      • Digital surface model (DSM)

• Features- operational layers of 3D map

• Textures- exterior or interior covers for 3D surfaces

• Atmospheric Effects- ex: lighting or fog

• 3D Object Scene Layers- used to represent and visualize 3D objects

• Building Scene Layers- visualize complex models of buildings and interact with all the components of the building

• • 3D Building Scene Layer structure:

• Overview

• Discipline

• Category Layer

• Filter

• Integrated Mesh Scene Layers- constructed from large sets of overlapping imagery

• Point Cloud Scene Layers- fast display of large volumes of symbolized point cloud data

• Point Scene Layers- used to display large amount of point data not possible with a point feature layer

• Voxel Scene Layers- multidimensional spatial and temporal information in a 3D volumetric visualization

• Scene Viewer, ArcGIS Pro, and CityEngine are the primary tools for creating web scenes

• XR- real and virtual combined environments and human-machine interactions

• Metaverse- network of 3D virtual worlds focused on social connection

• • ArcGIS has been expanding into indoor 3D mapping

• ArcGIS Urban– applies GIS technology to urban planning to streamline plan creation

• • Plans, projects, indicators, ideas
• ArcGIS GeoBIM
  • ETL: requires ongoing maintenance as business needs and file formats change
  • BIM as 3D Graphics: quick, effective technique for producing good-quality visualizations for presentations and stakeholder review, but eliminates BIM attribution, metadata, and georeferencing information
• I could use the information I learned during this chapter to create a scene for a park in my hometown. Coe Lake Park is in Berea, Ohio and I think a map of it could be very fun and interactive.

Chapter 5

• • ArcGIS Enterprise and ArcGIS Online have similar functions but Enterprise runs on user-managed infrastructures
  • Enterprise used when:
    • Need for on premises Web GIS
    • Need for hybrid Web GIS
    • Need for functionalities only on ArcGIS Enterprise
  • Enterprise pretty much a variation of Online
  • Portal for ArcGIS provides ability to:
    • Create various types of hosted layers.
    • Create, save, and share web maps and scenes.
    • Create and host web-mapping apps.
    • Search for GIS content within your organization.
    • Secure the access to your GIS content.
    • Manage organizational utility services.

• ArcGIS Server- create and host various types of geospatial web services which allows for a server computer to receive and process requests sent by various clients

• ArcGIS Web Adaptor- integrates ArcGIS Enterprise with organization’s existing web server and security mechanisms

• ArcGIS Data Store- allows for data storage configuration for hosting services with ArcGIS Enterprise

• Deployment scenarios for ArcGIS Enterprise
  • Single-machine deployment
  • Multitiered deployment
  • Highly available deployment
• Raster tile layers provide maps to client applications as image files
  • Appropriate for basemaps and maps with little change
• Vector tile layers deliver map data as many grouped vector files
• Map image layers can be drawn by the server or by using tiles from a cache
• Feature services generate feature tiles when requested by client apps
• When a user requests a map of a certain extent, 16 feature tile requests will actually be created and cached
• Image layer requests not usually reusable

• Standards specify the interface that different vendors should use and are important to establish interoperability among vendors
• When using Enterprise make sure data is accessible by Enterprise (not always is like when you import data with Online)
• I could use the information from this chapter to provide a map of schools in the Cleveland area and have links to their school websites attached. This could help parents of young children when they are trying to decide where to raise their kids.

 

Chapter 6

• • Spatiotemporal data can be categorized into four categories: moving, discrete, stationary, and change

• Real-time GIS- GIS that handles current and continuous data

• • Value of event can be point in time or duration of time
  • Key terms for spatiotemporal data:
    • Time measurement systems
    • Time reference systems
    • Time representations
    • Temporal resolution

• IoT– network of physical objects embedded with sensors and network connectivity that enable these objects to collect and exchange data

• Smart city- uses IoT devices to supply information that will assist the city in managing assets and resources efficiently

• Smart homes- houses with wifi-connected devices used to enhance the function of the home

• • ArcGIS Velocity and GeoEvent Server share components:
    • Ingest- provide ways to communicate with IoT platforms, sensor networks, social network feeds, and other real-time data streams
    • Process- processes real-time data received and translated by the ingestion component
    • Outputs- sends processed data to variety of destinations
  • ArcGIS Velocity introduces new types of items:
    • Feed items
    • Real-time analytic items
    • Big data analytic items

• Poll- client periodically polls server to retrieve the latest data

• Push- push data to web client (used by ArcGIS)

• ArcGIS Dashboards provides common view of systems and resources you manage
• I could use the information from this chapter to create a map that monitors police activity in my hometown city Berea, Ohio. By doing this, people could use the map to be aware of where they might have run-ins with law enforcement

Chapter 3

• ArcGIS Experience Builder allows you to combine functions from multiple apps and provides more functionality than any one ArcGIS instant app
• Experience Builder includes premade widgets that provide functions such as mapping, table view, querying, charting, and reporting

Basics of Experience Builder

• • Allows you to create unique web experiences using flexible layouts, content, and widgets that interact with 2D and 3D data
  • Key features:
    • Creates HTML and JavaScript apps without programming
    • Creates 2D and 3D web apps that work well on desktops, tablets, and smartphones
    • Includes out-of-the-box widgets that can be flexibly remixed and configured
    • Flexible layouts to build apps that are mapcentric or non-mapcentric and can display them on a rolling screen or fixed pages
    • Make a widget respond to actions of another widget
    • Provides framework for creators to make their own widgets
  • Template – Theme – Data – Widgets – Layouts – Publish

• Basic widgets- functional widgets that perform as app tools

• Layout widgets- containers that help organize widgets on your page/window

• • Setting panel for a widget has:
    • Content- data sources, links, behavior, and other settings of widget
    • Style- defines the size, position, background, border, color, box shadow, animation, transition, and other settings
    • Actions- make widgets talk and work with one another

• Message actions- listen to triggers and perform actions automatically

• Data actions- provide button for users to click

• Triggers- events generated by source widget

• Targets- perform actions responding to the trigger

• Actions- specific business logic that the targets perform

• 3 Editions of Experience Builder: 
  • Embedded in ArcGIS Online
  • Embedded in Portal for ArcGIS
  • Developer edition

• My idea for this chapter is to use the Web Experience setup to create a 2D and 3D mapping of droughts and food shortages in the Midwest. People could use these maps to get a visual representation of the relationship between the two.

Chapter 4

• • Mobile devices are becoming the main way to use Web GIS (Mobile GIS)
  • Concepts and Advantages

• Mobility

• Location awareness- can use GPS, cellular networks, Wi-Fi networks, etc. to pinpoint location of mobile device

• Ease of data collection

• Near-real-time information

• Large volume of users

• Versatile means of communication

• • Technologies for GIS
    • Mobile devices
    • Mobile operating systems
    • Wireless communication technology
    • Positioning technology
  • Mobile limits speed, memory size, battery power, etc.
  • Many organizations need to share data with the public and simultaneously allow members within the organization to keep that data up to date. Hosted feature layer views provide a direct way to do this

• Data integrity- feature template for a layer that represents schools

• • feature template can have preset symbols and default values for one or multiple fields

• Browser-based approach- access these apps through mobile web browsers

• Native-based approach- apps downloaded or installed on mobile devices

• Hybrid-based approach- combination of browser and native based approaches

• Native apps/fields operations: ArcGIS Field Maps, ArcGIS Survey123, ArcGIS QuickCapture, ArcGIS Navigator, ArcGIS Companion, ArcGIS Earth, ArcGIS Mission Responder, and ArcGIS Indoors mobile viewer
• ArcGIS has offline mode to still be functional when disconnected from internet
• ArcGIS Field Maps Capabilities:
  • Collect and update data using the map or GPS.
  • Download maps to your device and work offline.
  • Collect points, lines, areas, and view related tables.
  • Design easy-to-use smart forms.
  • Attach photos to your features.
  • Use professional-grade GPS receivers.
  • Search for places and features.
  • Support high-accuracy 3D data collection capabilities.
• Allows organizations to track where mobile workers have been and where they currently are (Invasive???)
• ArcGIS Survey123 Capabilities:
  • Design smart surveys with predefined questions that support domains (which appear as the choices in drop-down lists) and feature templates, default values, embedded audio and images, and simple (for example, if the answer to one question is yes, show a related question; otherwise, do not show the related question) and sophisticated rules.
  • Capture field data using an intuitive, formcentric data-gathering solution.
  • Store survey results in hosted feature layers that you can share with organization users.
  • Perform online and offline data collection.
• Ways to design smart forms: Web Designer, ArcGIS Survey123 Connect
• ArcGIS QuickCapture can allow for data collection in quick situations like a car driving by
• ArcGIS AppStudio provides place to build apps across platforms

An idea I have using the ideas from this chapter is to create an app that allows users to input good hiking places near our campus. With this app, it would be easy for Ohio Wesleyan students to find fun places to go enjoy the outdoors.

Week 1

Chapter 1

• • First GIS developed in 1960s by Roger Tomlinson
  • Advantages of Web GIS:
    • Global reach
    • Lots of users
    • Low cost per user
    • Cross-platform capabilities
    • Easy to use/maintain
  • Web GIS Applications
    • Mapping and visualization
    • Data management
    • Field mobility
    • Monitoring
    • Analytics
    • Design and planning
    • Decision support
    • Etc.
  • Web GIS can be used in everyday contexts all the way up to governmental contexts

• Arc GIS Online- software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering of Web GIS hosted on AWS and Microsoft Azure

• • • No hardware infrastructure to maintain

• Arc GIS Enterprise– Web GIS product that organization can acquire and deploy

• • • Four basic software components
      • Portal for ArcGIS
      • ArcGIS Server
      • ArcGIS Data Store
      • ArcGIS Web Adapter
  • Web GIS has evolved 
    • From closed websites to open geospatial web services
    • From One-way to two-way information flow
    • Portal technology
    • Cloud GIS
    • More Mobile Web GIS users
    • From 2D to 3D maps (and VR)
    • From static data source to real time and spatiotemporal big data
  • All content items have metadata
  • Types of content items:
    • Data
      • CSV, shapefiles, GPS Exchange Format (GPX), JavaScript Object Notation, photos, imagery, geodatabases
    • Layers
      • Feature layers, tiled layers, vector tiles, map image layers, etc.
    • Tools
      • Perform analytical functions like geocoding, routing, creating PDF files, summarizing data, finding hotspots, and analyzing proximity
    • Web maps and web scenes
      • Map (2D) or scene (3D) comprises one or multiple layers and allow for sophisticated layer configuration
    • Apps
      • Mapcentric programs that can be used on mobile devices, in web browsers, or on desktops
  • Basic components of Web GIS app:
    • Basemaps
    • Operational layers
    • Tools

• Hosted– web service is based on ArcGIS-managed data

• Nonhosted- web service connects directly to user-managed data

• Feature layers posted to ArcGIS Online are always hosted
• Attachments are an emergingly popular data source
• Attachment Viewer is an instant app template that allows you to quickly build an app that presents spatial data with an intuitive feature-by-feature viewing experience
• Other apps allow staff to take pictures in the field and attach them to GIS

One application of the ideas from this chapter could be to label restaurants I’ve visited in my hometown and displaying how I rate them. I would do this in Berea, Ohio and again limit myself to places I have eaten at.

 

Chapter 2

• Web layers are building blocks of web apps
• Most common types of feature layers:
  • Hosted feature layers
  • Hosted Web Feature Service Layers
  • Hosted tile layers
  • Hosted vector tile layers
  • Hosted Web Map Tile Service layers
  • Hosted scene layers
  • Hosted image layers
  • Hosted map image layers
• Ways to publish hosted feature layers:
  • Create feature layer from own data
  • Create feature layer from existing template
  • Create empty feature layer and define your own fields interactively
• Smart mapping enables users to visually analyze, create, and share professional-quality maps easily and quickly with minimal cartographic or software skills
• Examples of smart mapping
  • Heat map
  • Color and size
  • Compare A to B
  • Relationship
  • Dot density
  • Predominant
  • Type and size
  • Continuous timeline
  • Vector field
• Pop-up windows show geographic information and deliver geographic insight
• Arcade– portable, lightweight, and secure expression language written for use in ArcGIS to style, label, and add values to layer pop-ups
• ArcGIS Living Atlas has lots of data for usage
• Good web layers, maps, and apps are fast, easy, and fun
• ArcGIS StoryMaps provides a set of web-based story-authoring tools that can combine interactive maps, multimedia content—text, photos, video, audio, and intuitive user experiences—to tell stories about the world
• Sidecar– special immersive block with a side-by-side reading experience
• slideshow block- uses horizontal scrolling to emphasize your media
• map tour block– take a curated set of places and guide your audience through them one point at a time
• swipe block– interactive experience that allows readers to compare two maps or images
• timeline block– illustrate a series of chronological events in three layout options: waterfall, single side, and condensed
• I had issues around halfway through the tutorial that I couldn’t seem to figure out

I could use this to do a spatial pattern tracking map of natural factors in my hometown. I would do it there because there are lots of ways that nature is being incorporated in the city layout.

Hello! My name is Bret Becker and I’m a junior here at OWU. I’m a Physics and Environmental Science double major, and I like to sleep a lot.

I took GEOG 291 in the first half of the semester, so I already messed around with my ArcGIS account. While reading through the site, I learned that you could use ArcGIS Online to create apps. I also learned that they could customize the website for a specific course’s desires if wanted.

I learned more about how to find different features available with ArcGIS Online and I also learned more about the levels of sharing and why to choose each one.

One application of ArcOnline I found was to use it to map greenhouse gas emission factors to study them by area.

Another application I found was to use it to map solar panels in the United States.

Solar Infrastructure in the US