Author: snconti

My GIS app shows the different cemeteries in Pittsburgh with a blurb of information about them.

Final Project

Chapter 7 is about 3D scenes and how this is accomplished via extended reality systems such as VR, AR, and MR. Maps that use 3D scenes can be realistic or cartographic. 3D scenes have a few main elements including surfaces, features, textures, and atmospheric effects. 3D scenes can also have textured or untextured layers to visualize complex digital models which typically has an overview, discipline, category layer, filter, integrated mesh scene layer, point cloud scene layers, point scene layers, and volex scene layers. This technology can be used for many things such as building metaverses and urban planning.

Chapter 5 focuses on ArcGIS Enterprise and specifically on-premesis Web GIS. People may choose to use ArcGIS Enterprise instead of ArcGIS Online because Enterprise runs on user-managed infrastructures and is typically used if on-premesis GIS, hybrid GIS, or functionalities only available on ArcGIS Enterprise are needed. ArcGIS Enterprise includes a portal for ArcGIS, an ArcGIS server, ArcGIS web adaptor, and an ArcGIS data store. All of these aspects work together to create effective software.

Chapter 6 is all about spatiotemporal data and real time GIS. Spatiotemporal data is categorized as moving, discrete, stationary, or change. This is important to real time GIS because it is a way to provide better situational awareness, enhance emergency response, and support better decision making. This chapter also talks about the Internet of Things (IoT) which is the network of physical objects embedded with sensors and network connectivity that allow the physical objects to collect and exchange data. This data can be understood as intelligence which, with geolocation context, can be acted on. The IoT can be applied as a smart city or a smart home. Chapter 6 also discusses ArcGIS Velocity and ArcGIS GeoEvent Server. Both softwares interact with various data sources and translate different data formats, filters and analyzes data in real time, and sends processed data to external sources.

Chapter 3 focuses on ArcGIS experience builder which allows a person to create experiences on the web using a flexible layout, content, and widgets that interact with different kinds of data (both 2D and 3D). Widgets come in two types: Basic Widgets and Layout Widgets. Basic widgets function as app tools, while Layout widgets are containers that help organize other widgets on a person’s pages or windows. Widgets are also able to talk with each other using message actions or data actions. Message actions perform automatically when given a trigger, while data actions need the user to tell it what to do. Message actions are made up of the triggers, the targets, and the actions which can all work together to create dynamic content.

Chapter 4 is all about mobile GIS which is GIS on mobile devices. Mobile GIS has some advantages such as a large volume of users, mobility, versatile means of communication, ease of data collection, location awareness, and near real time information. There are also some disadvantages that come with the use of mobile devices such as limited memory, limited CPU speed, bandwidth and network connection, screen size, keyboard size, and battery power of the mobile device. There are different types of ways a person can develop apps on a mobile device including the browser based approach, native based approach, or the hybrid based approach. Browser based is less costly and generally more accessible, but does not always perform well, while native based is more expensive, requires more knowledge of mobile software, but generally performs much better. Hybrid based is a mix of both browser and native. This chapter also discusses ArcGIS Fieldmaps which is a combination of many other ArcGIS products and can be used to help plan, track, and understand data as well as help with the process of capturing data of field workflow. Fieldmaps can utilize many different apps and technologies such as AR and VR in its creation of an interactive map.

Chapter 1 functions to introduce ArcGIS online and the basic ways to use ArcGIS Enterprise. This system allows people to use the web in order to access information concerning almost anything. This system makes information instantly available for people from anywhere in the world. Web GIS is low cost, simple maintenance, easy to use, and good cross-platform capabilities. The different content layers of WebGIS include web maps and scenes, data layers, tools, and maps. The three layers of creating a WebGIS map are basemaps, operational layers, and tools.

Chapter 2 focuses on mapping and storytelling The chapter delves into different hosted layers including tile layers, feature layers, WFS layers, hosted WMTS layers, and many others. The chapter discusses the many different ways to publish a layer such as creating the layer from a template, creating it from your own data, and creating a layer in which you define your own fields. The chapter also talks about smart mapping. This is a process that allows people to create, share, and analyze maps quickly. Analyzing the map could show patterns that a person might not have been able to catch themselves. The chapter lays out the traits of successful storytelling with ArcGIS and mapping. A successful story tells who, what, when, where, why, and uses multiple forms of media to tell a story. Making maps visually appealing and interactive in this way not only to make a map look pretty, but also to make the map easier to understand and analyze.

Hello, my name is Sam Conti (they/them) and I am a senior majoring in Botany with a minor in Theatre. I took the quiz, scheduled my appointment, and poked around the ESRI website a little bit. I completed the ArcGIS Online Basics Course, and I thought it was very interesting how GIS can be used for so many different purposes. Then I used Google Scholar to look more into uses for GIS. In particular I looked up queer online mapping, because this term was new to me.