Lab 4

Using ArcMap was extremely confusing and difficult in my opinion. I thought there was a lot of little tiny steps in order to get a small thing edited in a map. Perhaps this is because it was my first time using this program is the reason why I thought it was really confusing. There is a lot of manually typing in file names which does not seem to be user friendly. In lab, we learned that this program is extremely user friendly and that is not the vibe I got as a first time user. I think as we get to use this program more and more in this class, it will become easier

I think this has good potential to be very useful in the field of GIS. It easily helps create legends and keys with a click of a button. This program seems to be an efficient way to get map contents fast and neatly.

I think some of the pitfalls of this program is the way you go about doing things. You have to understand a lot of concepts. These maps work with layers on top on layers of many different maps. Each layer is different in which you can decide to show and not show some components to each layer.