Author: pjbeard

Chapter 3 focuses on ArcGIS Experience Builder, which allows the use of both single-page and multi-page layouts with scrolling screens, allowing us to use 2D web maps and 3D web scenes within a single interface. Through the use of triggers and actions, we are able to show inter-widget communication. For example, we used data on hurricanes and earthquakes and made many different charts and pictures to communicate the information. Fflo isdz so present the information in many different ways. The only thing that helped me back in this section is that there was no 3D map, no matter how much I looked. It never appeared on the page when I looked for it, so I couldn’t complete the parts that used it.

Chapter 4 covers ArcGIS Web AppBuilder, which showcased the modular framework built around predefined visual themes and functional 2D/3D widgets like attribute tables, queries, and spatial measurement tools. The chapter emphasizes its transition out of active development. Modern Web GIS practices now center on migrating legacy Web AppBuilder workflows and widget functions into Experience Builder’s more extensible architecture. I also struggled a little bit with this chapter even though it didn’t seem too bad. I think the change in the apps and how different WebGIS and ArcGIS is what is really getting me. Even though they are two different things, I continue to think that they will somehow be the same.

The Global Wildlife Migration & Human Coexistence Tracker applies the concepts from Chapters 3 and 4 to help wildlife biologists and park rangers monitor animal movements while mitigating human-wildlife conflict. Using ArcGIS Experience Builder, the application features a dynamic layout that links a 2D GPS telemetry map with a 3D terrain scene, enabling interactive triggers so that selecting an animal species or tracking ID automatically zooms the map, rotates the 3D elevation view, and updates movement charts. 

Chapter 1: Introducing Web GIS

Chapter 1 shows the fundamentals of Web GIS, including the concepts and its evolution over time. It helps present the advantages of using the app due to the large following and use of this website for different types of data that are mapped. The chapter details the core components of the ArcGIS Web GIS platform—specifically focusing on ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise—which act as centralized portals for managing, securing, and sharing spatial resources. We explored essential basic concepts like web maps, web layers, and apps, which is something that I haven’t really seen before. Something that I thought was cool was the fact that we could share our maps and information with certain people (like your workplace) or you could share it with everyone that uses WebGIS. This chapter helped present the change from ArcGIS, which you can’t share with others unless it is sent, to a more modern WebGIS, which can be seen by anyone with just one click of a button. Through introductory tutorials, we practiced navigating this system, handling comma-separated value (CSV) datasets, and executing foundational workflows to publish and share web maps across communities and organizations. To me, this chapter was a little difficult to start as it just seemed so much harder than ArcGIS, but once I got the hang of it, it was smooth sailing from there. The only problem that I really ran into was the book being different than the website due to updates, and also having to click back and forth between the book and the website.

Chapter 2: Hosted Feature Layers and Esri Story Maps
Chapter 2 transitions into hands-on data management and visual storytelling by focusing on hosted feature layers and Esri Story Maps. The chapter takes us through generating spatial data from tabular records, such as CSV files, using geocoding tools to place address data on a web map. Once we created the layer, we learned, step by step, how to build meaningful layer styles to visually communicate patterns, trends, and data attributes effectively. Finally, in Chapter 2, we explored the idea of using Esri Story Maps. It teaches students how to combine interactive web maps, explanatory text, images, and guided tour layouts to present spatial analysis in an engaging, easy-to-digest format designed for non-technical stakeholders and the general public. I personally didn’t like this part of the tutorial just because it didn’t seem very interesting to me. It was also just weird in some ways. I can see how it is important, though, as it is very easy to make something to present the data you find.

Application Description Using Own Data
One application idea that I can think of for Ch. 1 and 2 is looking at animal shelters and local pet adoption in a certain area. I would be able to use data from the shelters (hopefully) that contained information about the animals (like their name, species, intake date, and photo), which I would then upload to ArcGIS Online and create a layer that features different icons for the aesthetic. Using different calculations (like those done in chapter 2), we could show the number of days each animal has been in the shelter. We would be able to use all this information to make an Esri Story Map so people would be able to see all these animals perfectly.

I have completed the GEOG 292 Quiz for Week 1

Hello! My name is Payton Beard, and I am a junior from Cincinnati, Ohio. I am a zoology major with a chemistry and ENVS minor, hoping to either work at a zoo or become a vet. I chose to take this class, as it seemed like something interesting that also followed along with my ENVS minor. Outside of class I am a part of the soccer and softball team, so I am always busy.

While looking around the ArcGIS Online page, we could see all my past projects, which is cool, but you are also able to go into the gallery and see other projects that have been posted, which is also cool. Another cool thing is that there are a lot of links to places that can help people become better at using ArcGIS Online.

 

One thing that is cool about ArcGIS Online is that a lot of people can use this app for the different jobs they do. You can use this for governmental jobs, business things, science things, or even just for everyday things.

Another thing that is cool about ArcGIS Online is that it was very useful during COVID, as it was used as a tracker of the pandemic and how it was spread all around the world.

The tutorial for the ESRI was very helpful. It showed how to use the instant apps exactly. It gives  a really great in depth preview of the apps and what each one is for and exactly how to use it. The other thing that was interesting was the difference between public and private sharing options. This can be important in many ways if you are working on something just for yourself, or working on it for your boss, or working on something that you want others to add to even if you don’t know them.

For the topic I decided to look at is at trapping locations for domestic cats in Arkansas. We can see from this map that the red symbols are traps in natural areas, and the blue symbols are traps in urban areas. We can also see other important features on these maps like developed area, forests, pastures and hay fields, and water. From this map we can see researchers used 38 trapping locations (23 in developed areas, and 15 in natural areas. This research is really good to seethe populations of feral cats in a certain area, and if their actions all are the same in 2 different types of land.