While creating training courses for Esri, I often needed to create datasets and GIS content for use in exercises and demonstrations. I have created dozens of web maps, web apps, map layers, and 3D scenes. Here are a few recent pieces of GIS content that I have created.
Seven Summits Story Map
Several years ago I created an instructor-led workshop titled user workflows with ArcGIS online. One of the lessons in that course demonstrated how to create story maps.
Photo by Udo Bernhart
I wrote a series of steps that the instructor would follow to create a story map that describes the summits on each of the seven continents, as described by the legendary Reinhold Messner.
The lead instructor for this course commented that she received a round of applause when she finished this demonstration.
The Story Map in the link below is provided as an example of what the end product would look like.
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Sierra Alpine Climbs
I created this 3D web scene for use in the course ArcGIS Online Basics, but have since used it in several other courses as well.
One of the things I loved about creating these courses is that it allowed me to explore my interests when creating these data sets. In this case, I was interested in climbing some peaks in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California.
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Southern New Mexico Mountain Center
This is a fictitious organization that I created as part of an exercise for a course I created titled Creating Apps with AppStudio.
I needed to have a plausible reason for students to access an organization’s AppStudio app gallery and I needed to create apps for the gallery to display.
I didn’t have much time: in about 8 hours I created three apps. For each app, I created a unique GIS dataset and designed branding and logos.
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