{"id":3168,"date":"2026-04-13T10:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T15:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/?p=3168"},"modified":"2026-04-13T10:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T15:09:09","slug":"isaacs-week-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/2026\/04\/13\/isaacs-week-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaacs Week 4"},"content":{"rendered":"Chapter 5 was interesting to work on. It focused on the ArcGIS enterprise which was a little confusing at first. I learned about what caching was and why it is important especially for highly accessed sites. This chapter also contained a lot of graphs and charts explaining how files work and operate. The steps on ArcGIS were pretty easy to follow and didn&#8217;t cause many issues. It was interesting to see the difference between raster and vector tile layers and things like how they are stored or updated. <br \/><br \/>Chapter 6 focused more on the visualization of the data developed and talked about it chapter 5. I thought this was interesting to visualize and actually see what was going on. This chapter also gave a bunch of pictures and charts to show how things are related or work together rather than just explaining it. When working on the tutorials in ArcGIS online it took a little bit of time to follow the steps and complete it. Taking a computer science and programming course it was also cool to see how coding comes into play in this chapter as well. Overall, I thought the chapter was interesting and important for learning how to use GIS.<br \/><br \/>An application involving these chapters could be a fisherman tracking where they caught fish on a lake. You could make the map use caching so the map is quick and easier to load. Once the person catches a fish you could use a gauge to chart how many fish they caught and the total weight or length of the fish.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter 5 was interesting to work on. It focused on the ArcGIS enterprise which was a little confusing at first. I learned about what caching was and why it is important especially for highly accessed sites. This chapter also contained a lot of graphs and charts explaining how files work and operate. The steps on ArcGIS were pretty easy to follow and didn&#8217;t cause many issues. It was interesting to see the difference between raster and vector tile layers and things like how they are stored or updated. Chapter 6 focused more on the visualization of the data developed and talked about it chapter 5. I thought this was interesting to visualize and actually see what was going on. This chapter also gave a bunch of pictures and charts to show how things are related or work together rather than just explaining it. When working on the tutorials in ArcGIS online it took a little bit of time to follow the steps and complete it. Taking a computer science and programming course it was also cool to see how coding comes into play in this chapter as well. Overall, I thought the chapter was interesting and important for learning how to use GIS. An application involving these chapters could be a fisherman tracking where they caught fish on a lake. You could make the map use caching so the map is quick and easier to load. Once the person catches a fish you could use a gauge to chart how many fish they caught and the total weight or length of the fish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2356,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168","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\/2356"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3170,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168\/revisions\/3170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}