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Hello, my name is Henry. I\u2019m from South Florida. I\u2019m a senior here. I am a history major and a geography minor. After I graduate, I want to teach history or geography in high school, using tools like GIS to teach geography. I took Geography 291 last semester, and it was probably one of my favorite classes here at OWU. It was also the class I spent the most time planning and trying to understand because I didn’t know about GIS until I started taking geography classes. After poking around in my account, you know, I was really surprised after I clicked on the ArcGIS blog that people would be posting stuff till this day and also the community forums that people would be posting things that they\u2019re doing, which is really surprising because you know not hearing about many people talking about GIS outside of here at OUW . It\u2019s really interesting to see how other People are talking about it. Also, the other things, like the tutorials and ways to get help, can take you directly to resources that might help with something causing trouble during the experience, which is really helpful because GIS can be confusing sometimes, and it’s good to have extra help outside of Dr. Kryger. in the get started one of the first things I noticed was it\u2019s just really helpful to specially to people are coming either back to GIS or looking to like start working with it, especially online version compared to the desktop version one of the first things I want to look at was work with Maps and this gives you a great introduction of how to view things how to set up directions and actually had a create them or share them into them to other people and that\u2019s very helpful because sometimes even reading things over or talking to someone about how to do it having an extra way to read it or look over things is very helpful. Another one was the notebook notes and having them ready for whatever you need to, like maybe collecting data on something so you can instantly add it to your GIS map, and it\u2019s just interesting to see that some samples, especially slightly further down, in it, of sample notebooks of what they look like and maybe notes of them, and it\u2019s helpful to see some examples of that primarily because this looks like something that could be used for this class.<\/span><\/p>\n

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GIS has made understanding battles much easier because it can depict troop movement, the battle’s actual geography, and the defenses and offensive maneuvers each battalion or army used. Take, for example, the Battle of Gettysburg. Many troop and army movements weren’t fully understood until tools like GIS became available. Now you can also easily display battle maneuvers and how things were done, making the battle and its movements easier for people to understand and learn about.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Reimagine a historic battle with visibility analysis | Documentation<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The next one I pointed out was the National forests. Surprisingly, a lot of people forget that national forests exist, and a map like this that pinpoints where they are, how big they are, and where they are in the region is actually helpful. When I drive up from where I live now in North Carolina, I didn’t realize I was going through a bunch of the areas near national forests or going through them directly, but not having stuff like GIS where I. Where they are on the map, it now helps because now this gives me a way to, in case I want to go stop after a long drive to go into one of the national forests in Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, or South Carolina, it gives me something to do and knowing where they are definitely gives me more of something to go look for, especially trying to pinpoint things in these areas.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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ArcGIS Web Application<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello, my name is Henry. I\u2019m from South Florida. I\u2019m a senior here. I am a history major and a geography minor. After I graduate, I want to teach history or geography in high school, using tools like GIS to teach geography. I took Geography 291 last semester, and it was probably one of my favorite classes here at OWU. It was also the class I spent the most time planning and trying to understand because I didn’t know about GIS until I started taking geography classes. After poking around in my account, you know, I was really surprised after I clicked on the ArcGIS blog that people would be posting stuff till this day and also the community forums that people would be posting things that they\u2019re doing, which is really surprising because you know not hearing about many people talking about GIS outside of here at OUW . It\u2019s really interesting to see how other People are talking about it. Also, the other things, like the tutorials and ways to get help, can take you directly to resources that might help with something causing trouble during the experience, which is really helpful because GIS can be confusing sometimes, and it’s good to have extra help outside of Dr. Kryger. in the get started one of the first things I noticed was it\u2019s just really helpful to specially to people are coming either back to GIS or looking to like start working with it, especially online version compared to the desktop version one of the first things I want to look at was work with Maps and this gives you a great introduction of how to view things how to set up directions and actually had a create them or share them into them to other people and that\u2019s very helpful because sometimes even reading things over or talking to someone about how to do it having an extra way to read it or look over things is very helpful. Another one was the notebook notes and having them ready for whatever you need to, like maybe collecting data on something so you can instantly add it to your GIS map, and it\u2019s just interesting to see that some samples, especially slightly further down, in it, of sample notebooks of what they look like and maybe notes of them, and it\u2019s helpful to see some examples of that primarily because this looks like something that could be used for this class. GIS has made understanding battles much easier because it can depict troop movement, the battle’s actual geography, and the defenses and offensive maneuvers each battalion or army used. Take, for example, the Battle of Gettysburg. Many troop and army movements weren’t fully understood until tools like GIS became available. Now you can also easily display battle maneuvers and how things were done, making the battle and its movements easier for people to understand and learn about.\u00a0 Reimagine a historic battle with visibility analysis | Documentation\u00a0 The next one I pointed out was the National forests. Surprisingly, a lot of people forget that national forests exist, and a map like this that pinpoints where they are, how big they are, and where they are in the region is actually helpful. When I drive up from where I live now in North Carolina, I didn’t realize I was going through a bunch of the areas near national forests or going through them directly, but not having stuff like GIS where I. Where they are on the map, it now helps because now this gives me a way to, in case I want to go stop after a long drive to go into one of the national forests in Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, or South Carolina, it gives me something to do and knowing where they are definitely gives me more of something to go look for, especially trying to pinpoint things in these areas.\u00a0 ArcGIS Web Application<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362","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\/2359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3367,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362\/revisions\/3367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}