ArcGIS Online & Map Packages.

This week's exercise for Intro to GIS involved making use of ESRI's online map sharing functionality. I updated my existing ESRI account to ESRI's online training materials and worked through the basics of two of ESRI's online courses. The first exercise (yosemite_operational_data) involved creating a small map that I posted up on ESRI's web mapping site. The second (tree_basemap) covered the creation of a map package that was uploaded to ESRI's site and made public. Such packages allow the sharing of maps, including their operational data, so that they can be used accessed and used by peers or by the public to do spatial analyses, update attributes or simply navigate via the map.

yosemite_operational_data

tree_basemap