Author: Evan Michael Rose

Rose Final:

• My first map is a simple map showing food insecurity rates throughout the United States. One of the layers shows the rates around the country and how they vary based on shade of color. There is also a layer showing food banks around the United States through the Feeding America program, a prominent organization that aims on decreasing food insecurity throughout the country with food banks and providing proper meals and resources. This was sparked by my HHK background and my interest in public health and especially our food system. Although a very simple map one is able to see some of the hotbeds for food insecurity and whether or not they are being provided some aid from Feeding America food banks. This data allows us to analyze and try to help in the future. 

https://owugis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?webmap=e1cd6f06ceeb4fa0b974bf8b6e39a777

• This app shows the MTA subway lines throughout New York City along with popular attractions throughout the city as well. Many of these attractions include highly visited Christmas attractions like the Rockefeller Christmas Tree and more. Being from New York I know first hand how crazy it can get during the holidays. The idea is to help people, mainly tourists, who are not comfortable riding the subway lines or navigating New York find their way around using the subway line and visiting attractions. This would best be fit for a mobile app that everyone can use and access on their phone with ease. 

https://owugis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/notification/index.html?appid=1e0ee9b107ed47f28882b17121f7b87d

Rose Week 5:

• 3D Web Scenes
  • More intuitive to interpret than 2D maps
  • Enables fasters communication
  • More interesting and engaging
  • Important for design, simulation, many industries
  • A critical component of VR and AR
• Visual effects
  • Photorealistic(real world)
  • Cartographic(representative)
• Viewing modes
  • Global
    • Global Coordinate System(WGS84): can display above the ground features, can be enable to display under the ground features
  • Local
    • Projected Coordinate systems: Can display above and under the ground feature
• 3D view: four main elements
  • Surfaces: provide ground elevation
  • Features: situated one, above, or below the surfaces
  • Textures: provide exterior or interior covers of your 3D features
  • Atmospheric effects
• Web scenes
  • Equivalent to web maps in 2D
  • Essential for 3D apps ArcGIS platform
  • Collection of layers, environment settings and slides
• Scenes services/layers
  • Scalable cache of graphics, styles, and attributes
• I3S(indexed 3d scene)
  • Open specification for scene layer 
• Layers in web scenes 
• 2D layers
  • Feature layers: can display in 3D symbols
  • Map image layers, vector tile layers, raster tile layers, image layers
• Scene service/layers
  • Can hold large volumes of features in an open format(i3s0 that is suitable for webs streaming
  • Leads features progressively, starting from coarse representations and refines them to higher detail as necessary for close-up views
• Web scene layers
  • 3D object scene layers, building scene layers, integrated mesh scene layers, point cloud scene layer, point scene layers, voxel scene layer
• Virtual reality(VR)
  • Uses headsets or multi-projected environments to generate 3D views, sounds, and other sensation that simulate a users physical presence in virtual or imaginary environment
  • Users are immersed “inside” the maps, and can “look” and “move” around the artificial world and even interact with virtual features or items
• XR
  • Refers to all real-and-virtual combined environments and human-machine interactions, generated by computer technology and wearables, where the X represents a variable for any current or future spatial technologies. Includes AR, VR, and MR
  • MR is merging of real and virtual worlds to produce new environments and visualizations, where physical and digital objects coexist and interact in real time. AR takes place in the physical world, with information or objects added virtually, like an overlay
  • VR immerses you in a fully virtual world without the intervention of the physical world
  • MR does not exclusively take place in either the physical world or virtual, but rather a hybrid of AR and VR
• Metaverse
  • A network of #D virtual worlds focused on social connection
  • The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the interest in developing metaverses
  • GIS professionals can play important role in building metaverses
• ArcGIS GeoBIM
  • Bridges gap between GIS and BIM using a web-to-web client integration approach by connecting ArcGIS with Autodesk Construction and BIM 360
  • Provides a solution for exploring BIM, engineering documents, and project management issues in a geographic context

An app that I would create applying this type of knowledge would be possible layouts and structures to a dorm room based on the furniture that is provided in order to find the best setup to fit your needs without constantly rearranging it by hand. 

Rose week 4:

Chapter 6:

• Spatiotemporal data and real0time GIS basics: Handles current and continuous data
  • Dynamic: something that moves
  • Discrete: something that “just happens”
  • Stationary: stands still but values change
  • Change: change or growth
• Sensory networks
  • Spatially distributed autonomous sensor that can cooperatively pass data through network, often wirelessly, for live data access and analysis
• Internet of things(IoT)
  • Network of physical objects or “things” embedded with sensors and network connectivity, which enable these objects or “things” to collect and exchange data
• IoT applications
  • Enterprise applications: smart cities, infrastructure management, environment quality monitoring, smart retail-inventory management, and precision agriculture
  • Consumer applications: connected cars, connected health, and smart homes
• ArcGIS Velocity
  • Information and data come in from feeds then is processed in real time. The filtered and analyzed data is then put into various outputs like ArcGIS Dashboards, Insights, Web AppBuilder, and other apps, or just even to actuate devices
• ArcGIS Dashboards
  • Allows users to convey information by presenting location-based analytics using intuitive and interactive data visualizations on a single screen
  • Ready to use data visualizations and other tools to interact with data
• ArcGIS Mission
  • Real-time geospatial communications and situational awareness product that provides users with picture of operating environments and helps coordination of movement and communication
  • Three components: mission manager, mission responder, mission server
• An idea I had for this section would be using a Dashboard to put in and show data of food insecurity and malnutrition. However, I think this would be difficult as there aren’t set cases to something like food insecurity and is difficult to quantify and show in this format. 

Chapter 3 Notes:

• ArcGIS Experience Builder provides more functions, larger variety of user interfaces, allows more flexible configuration of functions and user interface, and is customizable and extensible.
• Basics of ArcGIS Experience Builder
  • Web client for ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise 
  • Provides configurable widgets and themes
  • Creates pure HTML and JavaScript apps without coding
  • Provides framework for developers to create custom widgets and themes
• Provides many widgets that can be flexibly combined and configured to create web apps
• A web experience contain at least on page and can have multiple pages or windows
• Experience Builder provides two types of actions to widgets
  • Message actions listen to triggers and perform actions automatically
  • Data action provide Actions button that end users can click in widgets at runtime and select from list of actions to perform

Chapter 4 Notes:

• Mobile GIS is becoming the pervasive client for Web GIS
• Mobile apps can be developed in browser, native, and hybrid-based approaches
• ArcGIS provides a suite of mobile apps, including ArcGIS Survey123 and Field Maps
  • Survey123 is form centric and requires a form that can created using Survey123 Connect or web designer
  • Field maps is map centric for viewing maps, data collection, tacking, and coordination. For data collection, it requires an editable feature in a web map
• Mobile GIS is the foundation of many apps and frontiers, including location-based services, volunteered geographic information, virtual reality, and augmented reality

Creating apps based on these sections would be primarily used in the field. I am not really sure what type of app I would develop. It would have to be something involving landmarks in my surroundings so I was thinking possibly an app for hiking or camping trails to keep track of where you are by identifying landmarks on the trail to avoid getting lost or just learning in general but I assume there is something already like that out there.

Chapter 1 Notes:

• Web GIS offers an insane amount of value when it comes to the field. It offers advantages such as its global reach, large, number of users, low cost per user, better cross-platform capabilities, how easy it is to use, and how easy it is to maintain. 
• Web GIS awareness is growing more prominent in many organizations due to its benefits. These include, government organizations, businesses, science research, and even daily life in general. 
• Web GIS elements include users, groups, content items, and metadata. 
• Web GIS has five main types of content: data, layers, tools, web maps and scenes, and apps.

Chapter 2 Notes:

• Types of hosted layers to the Esri geospatial cloud: hosted feature layers, hosted web feature service layers, hosted tile layers, hosted web map tile service layers, hosted scene layers, hosted image layers, hosted map image layers.
• Smart mapping enables users to visually analyze, create, and share high quality maps easily and quickly with minimal software skills.
• Pop-up windows show geographic information and deliver geographic insight. Pop-ups are a common tool that users rely on to interact with operational layers.
• ArcGIS arcade is portable, lightweight, and secure expression language written for use in ArcGIS to style, label, and add values to layer pop-ups.
• ArcGIS Living Atla content categories: basemaps, imagery, boundaries, people, infrastructure, environment

In an I application I would create would be comparing the food security or lack there of in different counties in Ohio. As an HHK major I study our food system and how we can improve it. By gathering data of food security and hunger through out counties and towns we can look at it through a compare A to B type of smart mapping to see trending in towns and counties and figure out why this is happening.

Hello everyone, my name is Evan Rose. I am a very late addition to this class and will be catching up as I go so that’s why you have never seen my posts before and the reason why I am at week 1. I am a Health and Human Kinetics General major and I have never used this program before as I was not in GEOG 291 last module. 

 

Spend a few minutes poking around your account, including the icon in the upper-right corner, which takes you to your profile. Add your basic information to My Profile. Also, look at My Settings, My ESRI, Training, Community and Forums, ArcGIS Blog, and Help. Jot down two comments about what you find (for the blog entry for this Lab).

• I did not find anything interesting in the MyProfile, MySettings, or MyESRI. Just normal basic and boring things on those pages.
• I found the Training, Community and Forums, and ArcGIS Blog interesting as there is so much to do on this program and this is reflected on the myriad amount of training, forum posts, and blog posts on these pages.

Use some ESRI resources to learn a bit about ArcGIS Online. Complete a read-through of Get Started: What Is ArcGIS Online. This should take about 30 minutes. Read through the different sections of this web page (stacked along the left of the page) and jot down two comments about what you find (for the blog entry for this Lab).

• ArcGIS is a very vast program that lets the user explore and visualize 2D and 3D data. This comes in the form of maps, scenes, apps, and notebooks. Through this users can share and even collaborate with others based on their own work and research.
• I find it very interesting that when creating an app on ArcGIS it can either be hosted by ArcGIS, reside on your organization’s servers, or even use a third party resource such as Amazon to publish the application. 

Web Course: ArcGIS Online Basics

• Web apps allow users how to interact with web maps and scenes. They provide a more focused experience with more potential for context and utility. Users can create these apps even if they have no programming experience which is good because I don’t!
• Through these maps and apps, you can view very nuanced spatial concepts from certain landscapes and can either view and collect data privately or share with others.

Use Google and Google Scholar to look into a few GIS application areas: search for “ArcOnline” and different keywords, based on your personal interest: cat telemetry, queer online mapping, blind dung beetles, antifa, cop killings, stamp collectors, crowdsourcing, etc.). Include, in the blog posting, information on two applications with at least one map or image and a source or two.

• One thing I like to study and look into is food security or lack there of around the United States. When looking for ArcOnline applications involving this I found that it was used to map out areas of food insecurity and different landmarks that could lead to this.

https://link-springer-com.owu.idm.oclc.org/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-03273-9_8

• Another thing I looked at was the rates of obesity. ArcGIS was used in a study to mark hot spots and areas that are at risk for childhood obesity in Portugal. From this data they are able to come up with ways to combat this risk and increase the health of others in these areas. 

https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/49/3/934/5585655