Quiz #06 - ArcGIS Online Web Apps & Dashboards

This quiz is based on all the reading assignments, video lecture and hands-on ArcGIS Pro exercises that you completed this week. You have 30 minutes to complete the quiz. Before you take it, you may want to review this week's papers with the following issues in mind:

• Brown, G. (2012). Public participation GIS (PPGIS) for regional and environmental planning: Reflections on a decade of empirical research. Journal Of The Urban & Regional Information Systems Association, 24(2).
  • What are the different types of PPGIS identified by Brown?
  • What characteristics differentiate the different types of PPGIS?
  • What benefits or drawbacks\limitations are associated with PPGIS?
• Newman, G., Zimmerman, D., Crall, A., Laituri, M., Graham, J., & Stapel, L. (2010). User-friendly web mapping: lessons from a citizen science website. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 24(12), 1851-1869.
  • How do good web mapping sites benefit a citizen science effort?
  • What limitations or issues face the development of a good citizen science web map?
  • What guidelines did the authors develop to foster better citizen science web sites?
• Han, X., Smyth, R. L., Young, B. E., Brooks, T. M., de Lozada, A. S., Bubb, P., ... & Turner, W. R. (2014). A biodiversity indicators dashboard: Addressing challenges to monitoring progress towards the Aichi biodiversity targets using disaggregated global data. PLoS One, 9(11), e112046.
  • What approach did the authors take to gather input for biodiversity dashboards?
  • What were some of the preferences expressed by the participants? 
  • What are some of the benefits of providing biodiversity data in online dashboards?
  • What challenges to biodiversity dashboard development were identified?