GIS Lab 3

 





Overall, my experience with this particular GIS lab was not bad. It is a very meticulous process but being able to go off a tutorial was very helpful. Much of the information that the tutorial went over I remembered from a previous GIS class which made it much easier to follow along. It gives you a brief overview of everything ArcMap has to offer.

Although the tutorial breaks it down step by step for you, ArcMap is very picky and that's what makes it so difficult to comprehend sometimes. One error or invalid value has the potential to mess up the majority of your work. Working with this system requires a lot of patience and time but is extremely useful.

GIS and ArcMap have their ups and downs but overall, it is a very useful tool in today's world. Almost everything can be related to GIS in some sort of way. Businesses use them to find out where to put a new store or figuring out how to expand an airport, like we did in this particular tutorial.

Where there are advantages, there are disadvantages and you will find them the more you work with ArcMap. Having a system that is so fastidious and picky basically makes you have to do everything perfect or else you will be stuck and frustrated. I'm sure there are many others that I just can't think of but GIS is interesting and frustrating at the same time.