Location Advantage MOOC AMA (Ask Me Anything): Thursday Nov 30, 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm PT

[AdenaSchutzberg1]

Event details:

• What: Join instructor John Shramek, course host Linda Peters and Education Manager Joseph J. Kerski, Ph.D., GISP for an AMA (Ask Me Anything) live on the GeoNet Community in the Location Advantage MOOC group. Ask the panelists anything about the topics covered in the course and any fun, interesting and thought-provoking questions. 
  
• When: The AMA event will take place in this discussion thread (right on this page!) on Thursday November 30 , 2017 from 12:30pm-1:30pm PT.

How to participate:

• During the AMA, if you are logged into GeoNet (here's how to log in with your Esri credentials), you can post your questions in the comments below and the panelists will reply to your questions in the comments. 
• You're welcome to post questions ahead of the AMA but we won't begin answering them until the AMA begins on November 30th at 12:30pm PT.

Reminder: AMA Tips and GeoNet Community Guidelines

• You will need a GeoNet account (uses Esri credentials) in order to ask questions. If you do not yet have Esri credentials, get them right away; it can take a day or two to process the request.
• When asking questions and making comments during the AMA, remember to follow the GeoNet Community Guiding Principles.
• During the AMA this discussion page will not auto-refresh, so please remember to refresh this page to see new questions, comments and replies.

You'll know the AMA is live when you see a picture below with John, Linda and Joseph. From there on, remember to refresh the page to see our updates and new questions and comments. 

Thanks for joining us and we'll see you on Thursday!

12:30 pm - And we're live! Go ahead and ask your questions!

1:00 pm - We're halfway through, Great questions! Keep them coming!

1:25 pm - Five minutes to go! Got any fun questions for Joseph or John?

1:30 pm - Overtime! We'll take your questions too during this bonus 10 minutes! 

1:40 pm  - And that's a wrap! The live AMA has ended but Joseph, Linda and John will continue to answer questions as schedules allow. Thanks for joining us and asking great questions! 

 

[Anonymous User]

Well, not sure if you could have crops and a windmill while leaving the forest there, but I'm not an agriculture expert. I'd think your best bet is to find local experts to consult with, who know the area, the soils, the topography, etc. Or just ask someone in the area already growing crops. 

[JavierGamero]

I have heard GIS is used sometimes to create Windmaps and I really want to know a bit more about this but I would need the speed, etc. Height of land must be something to consider, it is as far as I understand when cultivating coffee or wheat, precipitation too so I am asking experts on many areas.

[AdenaSchutzberg1]

Hello Javier,

There is a soil agriculture exercise in our Earth Imagery at Work MOOC that illustrates one way to use imagery data to explore yields. If you've not taken that course you might want to put it on your list. We will offer it in February 2018.

Adena

[JavierGamero]

Thank you. Sure I will.

[HeatherJones]

Any advice for someone that would like to become a Photogrammetrist?

[Anonymous User]

Heather, Dr. Kerski just posted this link, from the Dept. of Labor:

17-1021.00 - Cartographers and Photogrammetrists 

There's also ASPRS, which is pretty active, and has local chapters. Contacting them and getting involved or even just learning from their websites will help:

ASPRS – IMAGING AND GEOSPATIAL SOCIETY 

I'll follow up later if I think of more!

[Jia_ChengZhu]

I haven't done any programming in javascript on ArcGIS platform, but for other map services like Google and Baidu using iOS, each services using different imagery database, any guide on integrating those map services in mapping or reuse dataset from those map services?

[AdenaSchutzberg1]

Hi Jia!

I've got good news about not being a programmer! We have some great tools to build apps that don't require it! I invite you to take our DIY Geo Apps MOOC. 

Adena

[Anonymous User]

I don't think you can really combine map services, they're separate and make individual maps. But, you can use the ArcGIS API for Javascript to add many map services. Then you can control which one appears "on top", which one is used to cover different areas, etc. 

[JosephKerski]

Jia - our colleagues created these labs for developers to dig into the tools - I've seen these being taught and they are quite good - perhaps these will be helpful - Get Started with ArcGIS DevLabs | ArcGIS for Developers   - Joseph Kerski