{"id":3488,"date":"2026-10-27T14:52:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T19:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/?p=3488"},"modified":"2026-10-27T14:52:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T19:52:06","slug":"njoroge-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/2026\/10\/27\/njoroge-week-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Njoroge Week 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chapter 1: Getting To Know Web GIS:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I found this introductory chapter very interesting, as it gave a brief history of the origins of GIS, and how GIS was first developed in the 1960s by Roger Tomlinson (who developed the Canada Geographic Information System). The idea was later developed by the the Palo Alto Research Company, who developed a mapping webpage in order to track and manage their projects, which was the original web GIS.<\/p>\n

I also found it quite interesting to learn how ArcGIS Enterprise and ArcGIS Online are being utilized by many multinational companies in order to track their growth and development, as well as those of their competitors. One application I thought of for WebGIS from this chapter was a webmap detailing the Hydrology of the state of Ohio, including stream orders and which hydrological systems feed into each other. This can be used by organizations such as DelCo Water, which operate in the realm of water treatment and anti-pollution efforts. However, one question I had was whether data that can be used to construct a webmap in WebGIS is limited to forms such as CSV, shapefiles, GPS Exchange Format (GPX), JavaScript Object Notation (GeoJSON, and whether other forms of data compilation and coding could be used.<\/p>\n

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Chapter 2:<\/strong> Getting To Know Web GIS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The second chapter of “Getting To Know WebGIS” was also quite informative. It was very interesting to learn about ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World, which provides ready-to-use content in the form of tens of thousands of data layers and maps. It was also very interesting to learn about the range of data available in the Living Atlas, including information on basemaps, infrastructure and even people.<\/p>\n

I also enjoyed learning about ArcGIS StoryMaps, and how they can be used to construct a narrative or track the development of a certain region or regions anywhere in the world. One application I can think of for this function would be a StoryMap that tracks the infrastructural development of a town in Pennsylvania from the year 1976 to 2026 and getting to see, for example, how different buildings and structures get demolished to make room for others.<\/p>\n

However, one question I did have while reading this chapter would be what type of coding language ArcGIS Arcade utilizes, and whether multiple languages can be used depending on the user’s comfortability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chapter 1: Getting To Know Web GIS: I found this introductory chapter very interesting, as it gave a brief history of the origins of GIS, and how GIS was first developed in the 1960s by Roger Tomlinson (who developed the Canada Geographic Information System). The idea was later developed by the the Palo Alto Research Company, who developed a mapping webpage in order to track and manage their projects, which was the original web GIS. I also found it quite interesting to learn how ArcGIS Enterprise and ArcGIS Online are being utilized by many multinational companies in order to track their growth and development, as well as those of their competitors. One application I thought of for WebGIS from this chapter was a webmap detailing the Hydrology of the state of Ohio, including stream orders and which hydrological systems feed into each other. This can be used by organizations such as DelCo Water, which operate in the realm of water treatment and anti-pollution efforts. However, one question I had was whether data that can be used to construct a webmap in WebGIS is limited to forms such as CSV, shapefiles, GPS Exchange Format (GPX), JavaScript Object Notation (GeoJSON, and whether other forms of data compilation and coding could be used. Chapter 2: Getting To Know Web GIS The second chapter of “Getting To Know WebGIS” was also quite informative. It was very interesting to learn about ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World, which provides ready-to-use content in the form of tens of thousands of data layers and maps. It was also very interesting to learn about the range of data available in the Living Atlas, including information on basemaps, infrastructure and even people. I also enjoyed learning about ArcGIS StoryMaps, and how they can be used to construct a narrative or track the development of a certain region or regions anywhere in the world. One application I can think of for this function would be a StoryMap that tracks the infrastructural development of a town in Pennsylvania from the year 1976 to 2026 and getting to see, for example, how different buildings and structures get demolished to make room for others. However, one question I did have while reading this chapter would be what type of coding language ArcGIS Arcade utilizes, and whether multiple languages can be used depending on the user’s comfortability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2369,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488","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\/2369"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3489,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488\/revisions\/3489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/geog-292\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}