{"id":2266,"date":"2025-10-24T14:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T19:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/?p=2266"},"modified":"2025-10-24T14:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T19:48:11","slug":"datta-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/2025\/10\/24\/datta-week-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Datta &#8211; Week 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHAPTER 1- The Absolute Basics, And a Brief History<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>WebGIS is cheaper and more user friendly than typical GIS<\/li>\n<li>Can be used for all sorts of applications- even daily life.<\/li>\n<li>ArcGIS is hosted by amazon (booo. Insert thumbs down here.)<\/li>\n<li>COVID had a major boom on ArcGIS usage (and cloud usage in general)<\/li>\n<li>The John Hopkins COVID-19 tracker was an ArcGIS project<\/li>\n<li>Hosted vs Nonhosted:\n<ul>\n<li>Hosted data is data stored in the cloud database<\/li>\n<li>Nonhosted is data which is stored locally<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>CHAPTER 2 &#8211; Basic info on layers and Pop-ups (and some other stuff)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Types of Hosted Layers:\n<ul>\n<li>Feature Layers<\/li>\n<li>Web Feature service layers<\/li>\n<li>Tile Layers<\/li>\n<li>Vector Tile<\/li>\n<li>Vector tile service<\/li>\n<li>Scene<\/li>\n<li>Image<\/li>\n<li>Map Image<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>There are quite a few ways you can style your map, all which best convey different information<\/li>\n<li>Pop ups are a way to display further information<\/li>\n<li>Arcade allows you to post more info that isnt in an attribute field<\/li>\n<li>Living Atlas is a database of datasets which are usable by anyone with an ArcGIS account<\/li>\n<li>WebGIS stories is fast and easy to use and make<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>TUTORIAL:<\/p>\n<p>I did the 2nd Tutorial which goes over how to present population change patterns and such on a story map.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHAPTER 1- The Absolute Basics, And a Brief History WebGIS is cheaper and more user friendly than typical GIS Can be used for all sorts of applications- even daily life. ArcGIS is hosted by amazon (booo. Insert thumbs down here.) COVID had a major boom on ArcGIS usage (and cloud usage in general) The John Hopkins COVID-19 tracker was an ArcGIS project Hosted vs Nonhosted: Hosted data is data stored in the cloud database Nonhosted is data which is stored locally &nbsp; CHAPTER 2 &#8211; Basic info on layers and Pop-ups (and some other stuff) Types of Hosted Layers: Feature Layers Web Feature service layers Tile Layers Vector Tile Vector tile service Scene Image Map Image There are quite a few ways you can style your map, all which best convey different information Pop ups are a way to display further information Arcade allows you to post more info that isnt in an attribute field Living Atlas is a database of datasets which are usable by anyone with an ArcGIS account WebGIS stories is fast and easy to use and make &nbsp; TUTORIAL: I did the 2nd Tutorial which goes over how to present population change patterns and such on a story map.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2267,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions\/2267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}