{"id":3169,"date":"2026-04-17T20:08:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T01:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/?p=3169"},"modified":"2026-04-17T20:08:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T01:08:24","slug":"isaacs-week-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/2026\/04\/17\/isaacs-week-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaacs Week 5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chapter 7 was interesting learning about how 3D models are made and the different ways they are used. The chapter focused a lot on to make maps more realistic and easier to understand. Instead of just looking at a flat map, you can see things like buildings, terrain, and other features with height and depth. It explains how tools like <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">ArcGIS Scene Viewer<\/span><\/span> let you explore, create, and customize these 3D environments. The chapter also goes over different types of 3D data, like feature layers and scene layers, and how elevation plays a role. Overall, it shows how 3D maps help people better visualize real-world spaces and make smarter decisions. The tutorials were fairly easy to follow with the exception of a couple parts that I had to look up. It definitely helps already knowing where a lot of the tools are on ARCGIS Online. I also thought editing and seeing the visuals on screen viewer were very cool and you could see how complex the tool can get.<\/p>\n<p>An application for this chapter could be a 3D model of the bottom of a lake with depths and structure underwater. This could be a website that someone makes and makes it easier for fisherman to find drop offs and good fishing spots where fish might congregate. I could also be a tool just for overall boaters to give them warnings where shallow parts of the lake are and where to avoid.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter 7 was interesting learning about how 3D models are made and the different ways they are used. The chapter focused a lot on to make maps more realistic and easier to understand. Instead of just looking at a flat map, you can see things like buildings, terrain, and other features with height and depth. It explains how tools like ArcGIS Scene Viewer let you explore, create, and customize these 3D environments. The chapter also goes over different types of 3D data, like feature layers and scene layers, and how elevation plays a role. Overall, it shows how 3D maps help people better visualize real-world spaces and make smarter decisions. The tutorials were fairly easy to follow with the exception of a couple parts that I had to look up. It definitely helps already knowing where a lot of the tools are on ARCGIS Online. I also thought editing and seeing the visuals on screen viewer were very cool and you could see how complex the tool can get. An application for this chapter could be a 3D model of the bottom of a lake with depths and structure underwater. This could be a website that someone makes and makes it easier for fisherman to find drop offs and good fishing spots where fish might congregate. I could also be a tool just for overall boaters to give them warnings where shallow parts of the lake are and where to avoid.\u00a0<\/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-3169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169","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=3169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3226,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169\/revisions\/3226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}