Week 1 - ArcGIS Overview

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I remember the very first map back in college when I was taking my first GIS class. We did the same exercise about choropleth map about the Philippines' population - using ArcMap. The map contains a very basic information about world population represented as polygons in graduated colors and cities represented by points. It has been a long time since I have exercised creating a choropleth map and I was really excited to reminisce my first map making. It was really hard to accomplish quickly due to connection issues but I hope in the next exercises we could use our local ArcGIS Pro licenses and then maybe just share the project package file. 

Anyway, the process of creating the map was pretty straightforward and the directions were clear enough to understand. I really liked the screenshots that was added with the instructions for students to really grasp the basics of ArcGIS Pro. I have a initial template that I usually use for maps so I just made use of that design though it gave me a headache when I was trying to arrange the items. As mentioned, I struggled a bit with the connection so it was a bit of a struggle creating icons in my layout. I'll try to find a way next time to incorporate some design in my map wherein I might use a bit of Photoshop to arrange the icons and infographics if needed.

Overall, I did enjoy creating my first map for this class. It was a good refresher for me about the basics of ArcGIS Pro. And it was just recent that I started using Pro when I switched from ArcMap. So there's still other terminologies or items in Pro that I'm still not familiar with. This was an excellent introductory lab to ArcGIS Pro and I'm excited or the next lessons to come! It has been a struggle to complete, and perhaps it's not perfect, but here is my first map.

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