ArcGIS Online and StoryMaps
AMST 3710/5710 - Spring 2024
What is GIS?
- Geographic Information Systems
- A system for storing, viewing and analyzing spatial data
- Relating the unrelatable
- The Science of Where
What is ArcGIS online?
ArcGIS Online is a cloud-based mapping platform. Users get access to dynamic, authoritative content to create, collaborate, catalog, and share maps, data, and applications with each other, the entire organization, or the public. Through ArcGIS Online, organizations gain access to the Esri cloud.
What can you do with ArcGIS Online?
Explore and visualize 2D and 3D data. Share your maps with anyone, anywhere or keep them private. Work collaboratively with fellow scholars to build maps and apps. Access analysis tools that help you better understand your data. Build stories around your data, maps, pictures and other media. Browser-based, no platform issues.
Content Page - Note: only visible if signed-in to ArcGIS Online
Ice Cream Map
Web AppBuilder
Maps can be used for visualization or to share data and collaborate, but we most often use them to present the results of a GIS analysis. That's where StoryMaps comes in.
https://storymaps.arcgis.com
Digital Humanities
Interactive GIS Analysis
Top to bottom GIS analysis. Using available data, I selected Charlottesville residential parcels that are within a 5 minute walk of an ice cream shop. Together, we'll use that data to create a StoryMap.
Using GIS to find the most ice creamy places to live.
Ice Cream - Come 2 Me (2013) by Ice Cream
GIS In Action
Locate ice cream parlors in Charlottesville
Ice Cream Shops
- Used Business Analyst Online to create a layer of ice cream shops.
- Pulled Charlottesville parcel layer into my map.
Walking Distance
Ice Cream Map
Using the Create Drive-Time Areas analysis tool, 5 minute walking buffers were created around the ice cream shops.
Select Parcels
Find Existing Locations to create a new layer of parcels that intersect the walking buffers.
Select parcels that are zoned residential
Using Find Existing Location, build an attribute query to create a layer of Residential parcels.
La Flor Michaochana
The first Paleteria appeared in the 1940's in a little town called Tocumbo, Michoacan Mexico. It's where three brothers started an ice cream business. The name La Michoacana and the image of the little girl from Michoacan identifies the paletas that soon became one of the favorites brands in all country.
Chaps Ice Cream
All of Chaps ice cream is made on premises using family recipes for over 70 years. They custom make flavors to fit every request or desire.
