Mapping Center

One of the presentations we gave at this year’s User Conference was "The One Minute Cartographer". While we were developing the presentation, we had several intentions in mind. Most importantly, we wanted to demonstrate to the attendees of our session that making a good map in ArcGIS isn’t always as hard as it seems – often times, it is just a matter of going one or two steps beyond the defaults. Another thing that was really important to us was to make sure that all of the data we used to produce this map was also available to you through the ESRI Data and Maps DVD. And in addition, we wanted to create a set of resources with great potential to help map makers in a variety of ways: Read More...

You may already have the Maplex for ArcGIS Extension. It's free with an ArcInfo license of ArcGIS. Many ArcInfo users don't know this and that fact has unfortunately kept many people from taking advantage of the superior text placement capabilities in the Maplex Label Engine.

One of those capabilities is the Street Placement option, which is available in the user interface for line layers. Though it is obviously for street labeling, we are often asked what exactly does it do?. Here's the answer Read More...

For thematic and analytical maps, it is often helpful to give readers an idea of the statistical nature of the attribute data. Graphs are an effective way to give readers another window into the data. Before version 9.2, ArcMap’s graphing functionality Read More...

This blog entry addresses one of the new features in the ArcGIS mapmakers’ suite of tools. At version 9.2, we added the ability to store representations in your geodatabase; this has wide ranging possibilities for map makers and data publishers. You will Read More...