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Chapter 1: Get started with Web GIS

Objectives:

• Grasp the concept and advantages of Web GIS
  • Global reach, large number of users, low cost per user, better cross-platform abilities, easy to use and maintain
• Understand the deployment patterns of Web GIS
  • Esri managed and customer managed
• Learn the components of the new-generation of Web GIS
  • Portal which represents a gateway for accessing all spatial products in an organization. Helps to organize, secure and facilitate access to products
• Understand the technical evolutions and trends in Web GIS
  • From closed websites to open geospatial web services
  • From one-way to two-way information flow
  • Portal technology is becoming essential
  • Cloud GIS delivers GIS functionality and ready-to-use contents
  • Mobile is becoming the pervasive Web GIS client platform
  • Map visualization goes from 2D to 3D and virtual reality
  • Data source goes from static to real time and spatiotemporal big data
  • Web GIS is becoming more intelligent
• Understand the concepts of web services and hosted feature layers
  • Main content types: Data, layers, web maps and scenes, tools and apps
  • Hosted layers refer to a situation in which a web service is based on ArcGIS managed data, stored in the ArcGIS Online cloud database or in ArcGIS Data Store
• Publish hosted feature layers from CSV files
• Learn the workflow for creating web maps and web apps

Example Application: A map, like the tutorial, showing locations of former fraternity and sorority houses in the historic Northwest neighborhood of Delaware. Images (PNG) and text from the Delaware Historical Society for each house and possibly alumni quotes.

 

Chapter 2: Smart Mapping and Storytelling with GIS

Types of hosted feature layers:

• Hosted feature layers
• Hosted Web Feature Service (WFS) layers
• Hosted tile layers
• Hosted vector tile layers
• Hosted Web Map Tile Service (WMTS) layers
• Hosted scene layers
• Hosted image layers
• Hosted map image layers

ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World

• Dynamic collection of layers, maps, tools and apps produced by Esri and thousands of contributors

StoryMaps

• Storytelling (used this so many times for Ashley Allen’s classes and other final projects)

Link to StoryMap: https://arcg.is/1L5D1u0

Example Application: Interactive StoryMap visualizing the population change/decline in Newfoundland and Labrador fishing cities.

Ben Buroker

Spring 2023

Geog 192

Dr. Kyrgier

 

Week 6:

Assign: Read and complete GTKWGIS chapter 7. Create a new blog entry with comments, notes, and questions on these readings. This is: <Your Name> Week 6

• Include a few-sentence description of an application based on ideas from chapter 7, using your own data or the Delaware Data (from Geog 191). This edition of the tutorial includes ideas under “Assignment” (p. 35 in the 5th edition of the tutorial).

Write-up: 

The terminology of “web” and “3D” for 3d scenes/maps are important to remember. It is intuitive that another dimension of data will improve the visualization, analysis, and communication of a map. The two types of 3d scenes are photorealistic scenes and cartographic scenes. Photorealistic use photos to create features and cartographic uses 2d thematic mapping techniques to display features which may not be as visual. There are a multitude of ways you can represent the 3d images or data. I think the point cloud maps are cool because they provide some context to the lidar data that I have heard Dr. Rowley talk about quite a bit. It’s cool to see what lidar data would look like when compiled into a 3d map. I got a little lost when they started talking about all the r’s, AR, VR, XR, MR… it’s a lot.

Exercise 7.1:

I couldn’t do 7.1 because this was the description it gave online on how to do it… This is the same problem from earlier in the book; where the instructions didn’t include the ending of the paragraph. I fixed this for future chapters by using the hard copy of the book from the GIS lab, no the ebook.

Exercise 7.2:

I’m having some issues with this exercise because it is asking me to choose “population per square miles” when it is not an option that I have in the drop down menus. I am instead using “population density” whenever I am asked to do this. I feel like it is close to if not the same as pop. per sq mi.

This is my web scene after completing 6.2. The spike in Washington is weird and I don’t know how to address it…

Exercise 7.3:

Making the “fun park” was enjoyable and pretty straightforward. It made me feel like an architect but it was actually really useful to see how you can format a 3d scene to make it look “pretty” or a certain way for a specific layout/project.

Exercise 7.4:

There is something going on with arc online when formatting the park walls towards the end of exercise 7.4. When you are asked to select the “height field” from a drop down box, there is one option with text and two blank options (pg 258). I believe some of my buildings don’t have walls because of this glitch.

Exercise 7.5:

This section was difficult. I had no trouble adding the car, but for some reason once I tried to add a helicopter my map became overrun by helicopters of various sizes. I only completed all the steps to add two to my map… so I don’t know why there are so many.

Exercise 7.6:

This exercise was cool. It was good to see all the measure tools. It was kind of frustrating trying to navigate the movement controls of the 3d map with my laptop though. It was hard to use my trackpad and the online wifi made the map a little glitchy I think. I would be interested in trying to do this sort of navigation on one of the wired PC’s and with a mouse.

 

Potential Application: 

I can see a 3d scene being used to make a map of a location in Costa Rica from Dr. Rowley’s Bahia Ballena project. I think if we had the basemap data or images we could add in the surrounding “stuff” like trees, buildings, and walls and format/place them in the correct spots. I think a 3d scene like the ones I made above could be a good tool to help people at OWU who haven’t been to Bahia Ballena visualize the town and better understand what is going on. The adding and formatting of the 3d scenes was pretty straightforward, I just don’t know what kind of data you need to begin the process. 

Chapter 1

Application: These functions could be used to make an interactive map for someone that has never visited Delaware before. In order to do it, I would need data about locations in Delaware that may be visitor-friendly and pictures of each of the locations. With that information, I could make a map like this one that could be used as a visitor guide.

Chapter 2

Application: This could be used in a very similar way: to show populations in counties in Ohio. This would require data on all counties, including past data in order to show growth, but would be a possible and useful way to use this chapter.

 

The last of the chapters for this course! This one is pretty easy.

Chapter 7: 3D Web Scenes

Basics of 3D GIS
• photorealistic and cartographic

Main elements of scenes
• surfaces: continuous; elevation usually
• features: on, above, or below the surface: stuff
• texture: symbolization
• atmospheric: lighting, fog

Web Scenes and Web Scene Layers

3D across ArcGIS

Creating Web Scenes

VR, XR, and the Metaverse

Indoor 3D GIS

3D Mapping + Urban Planning & BIM (Building Information Management)

Tutorial 7

7.1: Explore

7.2: Create a Thematic Web Scene

• step 5, p. 247: choose Browse, then My Content, then Living Atlas
• step 11, p. 248: not reverse but “flip” color ramp
• step. 11, p. 248: select population density (not pop per sq mile)
• step. 12, p. 249: select population density (not pop per sq mile)

7.3. Create a Web Scene using Feature Layers and 3D object symbols

• step 4, p. 251: hit the + symbol (upper left) then Browse Layers then ArcGIS Online then search.

(do this for the rest of the chapter when you add layers)

7.4. Configure Elevation

7.5 Edit Feature Data

• shitty tesla parking

and the last step.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter 1- Getting Started with Web GIS

• Grasp the concept and advantages of web GIS
  • • it removes the distance constrain and allows more freedom of interaction globally and access to information faster
    • a large number of users low cost per user
    • easier to use, and maintain and better cross-platform capabilities
• Understand the deployment patterns of web GIS
  • • government, business, science, and daily life
• Learn the components of the new-generation Web GIS
  • • Geospatial cloud powers GIS now
    • a portal that helps to organize, secure and facilitate access to GI products
    • servers let you create content
    • users can search learn and use the layers maps and apps on almost any tech anywhere anytime
• understand the technical evolutions and trends in web GIS
  • • closed to open web
    • from one-way to two way information
    • cloud GIS delivers GIS functionally and ready to use
    • mobile is becoming the pervasive web GIS client
    • Map visualization is 2D, 3D and virtual and data sources goes from static to real time and spatiotemporal big.
• understand the concepts of web services and hosted feature layers.
  • • the layers can include, feature layers, tiles, vector, map image, image, science, CSV, tables, and open Geospatial consortium layers like keyhole markup language
    • 3 types of components for Web GIS layers
• publish hosted feature layers from CSV files
• learn the workflow for creating web maps and web apps

Chapter 2- Smart Mapping and storytelling with GIS

• create hosted feature layers using CSV files and geocoding
  • • there are 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 map image layers
• design layer styles using smart mapping
• configure pop-ups with multimedia content and arcade expressions
• understand ArcGIS living at last contents
• create and ArcGIS story maps story with sidecar, express maps and swipe blocks

Week 5: 

Assign: Read and complete (skip chapter 5!) GTKWGIS chapter 6: Spatiotemporal Data and Real-Time GIS: Tile layers and on-premises Web GIS. Create a new blog entry with comments, notes, and questions on these readings. This is: <Your Name> Week 5

• Include a few-sentence description of an application based on ideas from chapters 5 & 6, using your own data or the Delaware Data (from Geog 191). This edition of the tutorial includes ideas under “Assignment” (p. 35 in the 5th edition of the tutorial).

 

Write-up: 

I’d never heard of spatiotemporal data before this chapter so I’m interested in learning more about it. I understand the benefit of “real-time GIS” and how it can be applied to real world problems. I can see how manually entering data or using sensors to immediately have data in a gis program could be super useful. The four types of spatiotemporal data are moving, discrete, stationary, and change data, and I can see how all of these can be applied to real time data based on the examples given in the textbook. The IoT is kind of a scary phenomenon because it consists of such a broad range of everyday things that impact our everyday lives. (ex. “airplanes, taxis, bicycles, lights, refrigerators, sprinklers, heart-monitoring implants, biochips, security cameras, and unmanned automobiles”).

 

Exercise 6.1, 6.2:

This is my incident dashboard after completing 6.1 and 6.2. This went very smoothly and was enjoyable to do. I like moving things around to make them fit in a way that I liked. There were a few times were it asked me to type a specific title or “something” but just did not include what it was… there was just a blank spot

Exercise 6.3:

My dashboard looked mostly the same after 6.3 as it did after 6.2, with the addition of the category selector in the top right and the actions on the 10 most recent incidents tab. I think these are cool functions of the map and added a lot of depth to what it could show.

 

Exercise 6.4: 

When trying to type in the Arcade Script, I got this “unable to execute arcade script” in the list box. I don’t feel confident enough in my coding experience to understand what is going on. The same was true with the table arcade script, any time I added anything at all to the advanced formatting box I got the same unable to execute message. I chose to reset to the regular script so that the table and list still displayed the earlier information.

 

Exercise 6.5: 

This exercise went well. No major hiccups. I do find it somewhat more difficult to navigate the arcOnline home pages because I don’t have a ton of experience using them. I think I’m more comfortable in map viewer and other online applications because I have experience with arcGIS on the PC’s. 

 

Exercise 6.6:

This is my web app created in 6.6. I thought this was straightforward and everything worked well. The instructions were clear and it was cool to see how a web map could become a web app. I feel like this is a useful technique to know how to do and one that I will be able to use going forward. I did see a few more typos similar to the ones that I mentioned above in this exercise, it seems like somehow words were being dropped off the ends of sentences which made it kind of hard to know what the book wanted me to label things.

 

Potential Application:

I could see myself using the steps from 6.5 and 6.6, making a web map and then turning it into a web app with Dr. Rowley’s Costa Rica data. Part of our goals is to make a web map/app for the town of Bahía Ballena and I could totally follow the instructions and methods we used in these exercises to generate an interactive app that can be shared with the town.

Chapter 3

I have never been so frustrated with GIS before. I tried so many ways to get the program to work but nothing was working and I was unable to get the Web AppDeveloper to work at all which is disappointing. So I just read through everything and all the steps made sense and I feel the apps are way more powerful than just a map. Hopefully, this doesn’t put me at a disadvantage later but I could not handle trying to get it to work again.

Chapter 4

I really enjoyed this chapter and the tutorial throughout the whole thing. I am really getting annoyed installing things but it gives good programs and how they can be integrated into systems as a whole. I think my favorite part was creating a map to use for data analysis of a survey. I found that this can be applied to many different scenarios or potential situations that could be applied to this kind of data collection. Also being able to map that kind of data gives you access to further tools to be successful with that information.

Thus we begin another fine chapter of GTKWGIS. As noted, skip Chapter 5 and just do Chapter 6.

Chapter 6: Spatiotemporal Data and Real-Time GIS

Spatiotemporal data, IoT, Real-Time GIS

• Details and definitions of spatiotemporal data
• Internet of Things
• Smart city / Smart homes

Cloud, Server, and Client Tech for Real-time GIS

• high demand for fast computing of large amounts of data

ArcGIS Velocity and ArcGIS GeoEvent Server
• ingest
• process
• output

ArcGIS Velocity
• runs via ArcGIS Online
• components
• feed items (inputs)
• real-time analytic items (alerts, actions)
• big data analytic items (access to large existing data sets)

Deliver Real-Time data from Servers to Clients
• poll (say, data grab every 30 seconds) and push (data serving)

ArcGIS Dashboards
• monitor and track

ArcGIS Mission
• real-time communication and situational awareness SW

Animating time-series data
• animation and etc.

Tutorial 6

6.1, 6.2 Completed: easy with no major glitches in the tutorial!

6.3 Completed

6.4 Configure advanced formatting using Arcade

• ok: hit the wall with step 3. The highlighted code, as typed in (on my mac) is not working. Sometimes there are issues with the characters (there are, for example, different kinds of parenthesis). But I used the auto-complete in the coding and it still gives me an error. give this a try and if it doesn’t work skip to the next section. The only thing I can think of is to try on a PC (which I’ll do later).

6.6 Animate Time Series Data

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ben Buroker

Spring 2023

Geograph 192

 

Week 4: Chapters 3 and 4

 

Chapter 3:

The “Experience Builder” function of arc online is one of the things that blows my mind about the webpage. The things that ArcOnline can do are really incredible and useful. I think the web experiences capability is super cool and will be fun to play around with when designing web apps and maps.

Exercise 3.1:

I always get scared having to add data in any GIS setting because it has gone wrong in the past… But I successfully added the 2d sample map so that was good. I had a hard time adding the “Views Navigation Widget” because it didn’t automatically link to my map and there are no options in the right hand tab under “Link to:”.

 

Exercise 3.2:

Screenshot from the preview tab only showing the hurricanes and earthquakes selected on the 2D Map on the 3D Map.

 

Exercise 3.3: 

When I click on the “Dynamic Content” button on the toolbar nothing comes up. This is on page 91 of the book. I can’t complete any of the next steps because I don’t see a “statistics”, “data”, or “operator” button.

 

Exercise 3.4:

This is my map after adding the earthquake table in 3.4. Also this link is a draft view but should still work! (https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/85e2290efe0a405da0f13fcabb6ec603/?draft=true)

 

Exercise 3.5:

My map after 5.3 showing the chart function and only the selected earthquakes from the year selected on the donut chart. Creating this went smoothly and I apprecaite the depth of information you can provide with charts like this one. 

 

Exercise 3.6: 

I had a hard time with embedding the image on the new page I created because the Url in the book didn’t have an https and the text box/arconline only supported https. I just added “https://” to the front of the URL and it embedded an image. I don’t know if it’s what it’s supposed to be though.

This is my finished map with the new header from 3.6.

 

Chapter 4:

The mobile apps strike me as a super powerful part of arconline. The introduction section about the “post-PC” era made a lot of sense and it is cool that things like GIS are adapting to the technological developments and are able to be used with the powerful technology my generation has grown up with. The concepts and advantages section on pg 110 and 111 is very compelling and makes it easy to see how the mobile apps could be useful for people using GIS.

 

Exercise 4.1:

On page 127, where the tutorial asks us to pick “Imagery Hybrid” for the basemap of our survey, I couldn’t find an option labeled this. I just chose imagery with labels, hopefully that is what they wanted.

This is a screenshot of my survey preview after this section was completed.

 

Exercise 4.2:

It was entertaining to practice taking the survey I just created and to see how it all worked. I liked how the recyclables question popped up when I selected recyclables as the incident type. I can imagine creating much more in depth and informative surveys using this framework.

 

Exercise 4.3:

At the top of page 136, where the tutorial tells you to notice how the “incidents_layer” has attachments enabled, it doesn’t actually have attachments enabled. I manually enabled it using the toggle buttons. Before I could share my layer/map that I made in this exercise I needed to go into settings and click the “Public Data Collection” box.This might have been prompted earlier in the tutorial and I missed it but I wasn’t able to share until I did it. 

 

Exercise 4.4:

There is no conditional visibility option as mentioned on page 139. I think that the name has changed to calculated value as there is an “add expression” cue under this option. I actually couldn’t figure out what it was asking me to do at this point and wasn’t able to complete this tutorial. This also meant I couldn’t complete 4.5, the Field Map exercise because I didn’t have the Public Works Inspection web map that I was supposed to be able to make in 4.4.

 

Exercise 4.6 and 4.7:

This is the Quick Inspections quick capture map that I created in exercise 4.6 and used on my phone to capture images in 4.7.

 

Exercise 4.8:

This is the test POI that I created in the map for this exercise.

 

Exercise 4.9:

The AuGeo app is super cool and being able to look at the first person camera view of the POI’s you add is really cool. It was also really simple to add a POI and this could be really good for something like making a campus map with street level views.

 

Potential Application:

Exercise 4.9 inspired me to think about the applications of AuGeo and I could really see it being used to make an OWU campus map that included POI’s that would open up to street-level images of OWU buildings. This way, visitors could look at our typical campus map, click on a building they want to see, and then see it from street level. As I mentioned above it is pretty simple to create the POI’s and I believe the photos are already out there so I feel like this is a pretty realistic application of the techniques we practiced.

 

Ben Buroker

Spring 2023

Geogprahy 192

Week 1, 2, 3: 

 

Write-up: 

ArcOnline Exploring: I have previously logged into my arconline account in Dr. Krygier’s earlier GIS class (before the 191 and 192 modules). I enjoy working with ArcOnline and think it is a good addition to the desktop GIS software. I find it relatively easy to navigate and use to view and make maps. Everytime I go on it I am surprised by how many tabs and different buttons/capabilities there are, and this time was no different. I’m excited to hopefully understand the function of all of these tabs at the end of the course. 

 

Get Started: What is ArcGIS Online. Readthrough: I think one of the most exciting things about arc online to me is that you can work on maps collaboratively and virtually with other users and organizations. This is an incredibly powerful tool to connect people and to accomplish projects with people in far away locations. I read about this in the “Get Started” tab in the “Share and Collaborate” section and can see this being super useful when working with a professor or in a professional capacity and not having to go on a desktop machine or share drives/folders. I was interested in the app section of the readthrough, because I haven’t had much experience with ESRI (?) apps beyond ArcOnline and ArcPro, so clicking through them on arconline was interesting. There is a large span of content/ industries covered by the apps, and it really highlights how diverse and powerful GIS can be. I was particularly interested in the GeoPlanner app, and a bit more research showed that it can be used to design and plan buildings and other structures in accordance with the geographic information of the area.

 

Getting Started Course(s): I had already completed the ArcGIS Online Basics course, so chose to do the “Basics of JavaScript Web Apps” because I am anticipating having to make a Web App for an independent study with Dr. Rowley and think this may be useful. My first impression is that using HTML format for web pages is familiar, because of work that I have done with Dr. Krygier in previous classes. That feels good and is making me excited about potentially being able to do this (the coding is a little scary). The section on software development kits (SDK’s) and introducing maps to online apps makes sense and I feel is applicable to what I want to do with Dr. Rowley.

 

Interesting ESRI online training: The “Get Started with ArcGIS QuickCapture” seminar seems interesting. It focuses on how you can use QuickCapture to take images and make them into data to be used in arc. I was interested in this because it includes “rapid data capture from moving ground or air-based vehicles” which could potentially include remotely sensed data. Another course of interest is the “Creating and Sharing GIS Content Using ArcGIS Online“ because I am interested in being able to share maps that I make with other people. I think this might provide some insights on how to share maps in a variety of ways.

 

GIS Application Areas: Making interactive web maps using arc online. I know I’ve talked about it before but this website details how you can make these maps and post them online which is something I’m very interested in doing at the moment. It is a 13 page pdf tutorial of how to do this. This website details how to map flood risk areas with arc online. I think this is an interesting topic and is something that the remote sensing class worked on doing in ArcPro on the desktop machines. I think it would be interesting to see how the online software compares and if there are any major differences.

 

Week 2: Chapters 1 & 2:

 

Assign: Read and complete chapters 1 & 2. Create a new blog entry with comments, notes, and questions on these readings. This is: <Your Name> Week 3

• Include a one-paragraph description of an application based on ideas from chapters 1 & 2, using the Delaware Data. Also, post ideas to Geog 192 Google Group and comment on other students’ ideas.

 

My first impression reading chapter 1 is that the capabilities of Arc online are immense. There is so much powerful stuff that the software can do. It’s pretty amazing. Learning about the five main types of content supported by arc online, data, layers, web maps and scenes, tools, and apps, was really helpful and explanatory. I also found the attachments section, starting on page 17, very interesting because I have never been able to attach a picture of ppt or video to an Arc map before and this could be a super informative and useful addition to a map.

 

Chapter 1: 

This is the Redlands attractions map from Exercise 1. It was kind of tedious to make with the new ArcOnline software but generally pretty straightforward and workable. The others parts of the chapter were also straightforward and easily completed when working slowly and methodically.

Chapter 2: 

I wasn’t able to correctly code in a new expression in chapter 2 and so I didn’t have the growth rate (2010-2020) pop-up  when I clicked on specific cities. The book’s description of the expression generator tab was different from what it actually looked like so this was kinda difficult. 

This is what my map looked like after 2.4. I couldn’t find the “sample chapter2 owner.gtkwebgis” so I was not able to do the tutorial for 2.5 and 2.6.

 

Potential Application: I can see the sort of techniques we used in chapters 1 and 2 being used with the Delaware data for the school districts. I could potentially see us generating a map similar to the map in chapter 2 with the Delaware county school district. We could also use the techniques from chapter 1 in order to make a similar map from subdivision data. Highlighting where all of the subdivisions are in Delaware County.