Analysis Using Insights

1. The data

• Navigate to the Climate Mapping for Resilience and Adaptation web site.
• Click on the Open Data link (or scroll down the page).
• Explore Hazards
• Click on the National Risk Index Counties dataset
  • Note that you can filter the data
  • Note that you can download this dataset in several formats
• Back on the button, on the bottom of the left side bar, click “I want to use this >”
  • Select Open in ArcGIS Online; Note the web address of this resource
• Explore properties of the dataset
  • Who manages this feature layer service?
    • How many other items do they manage?
  • What tags are associated with it?
  • How many layers are associated with this feature layer service?
  • Click on the Data tab
    • What fields are in this dataset?

2. Exploring and visualizing the data

Create a web map from the dataset

• Sign in to AGOL if you haven’t already
• With the dataset’s resource page open in your logged in AGOL account, select Open in Map Viewer
  • This will create a new untitled Web Map for you to customize

Familiarize yourself with the layout of the web mapping interface

• Click on a feature in the map. What is shown?
• What things do the vertical bar on the far left control?
  • View the legend: what are we looking at?
  • Change the basemap
  • Save your map as “ENV859_<netID>_HazardMap”
• What do those three dots (“…”) to the left of the layer name do?
  • Show the attribute table of the dataset: what other fields are in this layer?
  • Show the properties of the dataset…
• What can you control in the properties of your National Risk Index Counties layer?