Module 3 Map Sharing and Projections

 

This assignment made a lot of sense for me. Being able to create the domains of the map that I was going to be collecting on made it very simple to set things up in a way that made sense in the field. I thought that the different ways that we learned to share a map like this (like the KML file) were simple and got the job done without any hiccups. The only thing that I got majorly confused about was that I had to log back into to ArcGIS pro to see my points after I had collected them. It took me a while to figure out why mine was not working. I also liked learning how to share a map on google earth because many people do not have accessibility to Arc that I work with, but it it easy to tell someone how to go on google earth. This lab brought a lot of things together for me that I have seen the GIS manager that I work with do, but had not learned to do myself. I enjoyed creating the domains because I know what will make sense when collecting in the field, as I have done a lot of that for GIS technicians. Sometimes on Arc Online it was a bit confusing how to find the right link I needed, and I did not like having to retype my tags and description and warning so many times. I thought that could have been simpler, but sometimes these steps are just necessary. Having to retype it also helped me realize things to change as the map changed. 

The projections worked well when creating them, but this part of the lab was slightly more difficult to comprehend the purposes. Sifting through all the different styles as you are in different map views made it a bit confusing and I can imagine it being easy to mess up when not following a guide to remind you which view you are in.