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Chapter 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

This chapter talked a lot about the advantages of WebGIS over ArcGIS. Some of these include: global reach\/higher accessability (with lots of user exposure and the fact that it is a low-cost program), cross-platform\/device accessability (so that it is more mobile and even more accessable), and ease of use. It is also easier to maintain compared to ArcGIS because updates happen system-wide rather than on individual devices. The chapter also talked about how it is used in the government, buisnesses, science, and daily life. I was interested to hear about the application of covid-19 tracking. Its accessibility really allows the general public to be informed about things such as that. During the tutorial portion of this chapter, it was a bit less intuitive than I found it to be in the introduction. I could not find some things, which led me to not really be able to do it right… But overall, the tutorials gave a good introduction to the basic functions of WebGIS and publishing things on there. We also learned about the 5 data types which are data, layers, web maps\/scenes, tools, and apps\/ We got to work with them in the tutorial.<\/p>\n

Chapter 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chapter 2 was all about “storytelling” with webGIS. It talked about pop-ups, mapping style and how t deliver a message through methods of mapping, and how feature layers work (and their different types). Regarding creating a story, it discussed style and the logistics of actually doing it. This was all pretty familiar to me from the WebGIS chapter in 291. It was just a bit different because we did not use ArcGIS for any of the process in these tutorials, which is interesting.<\/p>\n

Application:<\/strong><\/p>\n

One application of the information collected in these chapters would be to make a story to present information about how crime has changed over the years in an area, similar to the population change example in the book. I think, however, crime would be interesting to look at because it can be looked at while considering the course of current events and how crime trends seem to follow them. For example, drug charges would have increased during the opioid crisis, but other trends that maybe have not been thought about may come to light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chapter 1 This chapter talked a lot about the advantages of WebGIS over ArcGIS. Some of these include: global reach\/higher accessability (with lots of user exposure and the fact that it is a low-cost program), cross-platform\/device accessability (so that it is more mobile and even more accessable), and ease of use. It is also easier to maintain compared to ArcGIS because updates happen system-wide rather than on individual devices. The chapter also talked about how it is used in the government, buisnesses, science, and daily life. I was interested to hear about the application of covid-19 tracking. Its accessibility really allows the general public to be informed about things such as that. During the tutorial portion of this chapter, it was a bit less intuitive than I found it to be in the introduction. I could not find some things, which led me to not really be able to do it right… But overall, the tutorials gave a good introduction to the basic functions of WebGIS and publishing things on there. We also learned about the 5 data types which are data, layers, web maps\/scenes, tools, and apps\/ We got to work with them in the tutorial. Chapter 2 Chapter 2 was all about “storytelling” with webGIS. It talked about pop-ups, mapping style and how t deliver a message through methods of mapping, and how feature layers work (and their different types). Regarding creating a story, it discussed style and the logistics of actually doing it. This was all pretty familiar to me from the WebGIS chapter in 291. It was just a bit different because we did not use ArcGIS for any of the process in these tutorials, which is interesting. Application: One application of the information collected in these chapters would be to make a story to present information about how crime has changed over the years in an area, similar to the population change example in the book. I think, however, crime would be interesting to look at because it can be looked at while considering the course of current events and how crime trends seem to follow them. For example, drug charges would have increased during the opioid crisis, but other trends that maybe have not been thought about may come to light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376","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\/2417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3554,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3376\/revisions\/3554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}