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AAG flow mapping presentation available for download
By Aileen Buckley, Esri Professional Cartographer The demonstration that I gave at the 2013 AAG Annual Meeting has an associated PowerPoint presentation that you can now download. The Mapping Flow Data presentation is about 16 MB because it has videos.
Design principles for maps using statistical data
On Thursday afternoon 6 September 2012, the 150 seat Lecture Theatre 2 at Victoria University of Wellington’s Pipitea Campus was full to overflowing with policy analysts, people who work with statistics and spatial data, students and people interested in a presentation which explored the design principles for statistical mapping. Continue reading
Making Beautiful Maps PowerPoint available for download
By Aileen Buckley, Esri Research Cartographer
In the Making Beautiful Maps session at the 2012 Esri International User Conference, we introduced some special cartographic effects that will add a professional touch to your maps and really help you to get your message across! Stunning cartography coupled with your authoritative content can capture the interest of your map readers and give you the opportunity you need to tell your story. Think you can’t make beautiful maps with GIS? In this session, we showed you how you can! Download a PDF of the presentation we gave to see what was covered in this popular session.
Esri Map Book, Volume 27 now available
By Aileen Buckley, Esri Research Cartographer
The Esri Map Book, Volume 27, shows how GIS enables change and provides innovative, spatially based solutions to wide-ranging issues, including those affecting business, the environment, utilities, transportation, and government.
More details are available on The Esri Press website. If you are not already on the list to receive this book and you would like a copy, please contact esripress@esri.com.
The Esri Map Book, Volume 27, PN: 126715, ISBN: 9781589483149, Price: $24.95 ($28.95 in Canada)
Esri Ocean basemap color style available for download
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Esri released its beautiful Ocean Basemap in June 2011. Some of you have been asking for a style that contains the colors used to symbolize the bathymetry in that basemap. Now you can download the Ocean Basemap color style, which contains the colors used to display the bathymetry in the Esri Ocean Basemap. Continue reading
3D spheres style with PNG symbols available for download
n our Making Beautiful Maps technical workshop at the 2012 Esri User Conference, we demonstrated how PNG pictures improve the appearance of picture marker symbology when the symbols are scaled in size. Now you can download a new 3D spheres style that contains picture marker symbols created using PNG files. Continue reading
Education UC workshop resources available for download
Download PPTs, exercises, and data/maps for the Methods for Visualizing Space-time Data and Using and Creating ArcGIS Basemaps workshops presented at the 2012 Education UC. Continue reading
Mapping Census 2010 now available from Esri Press
Esri Press announces a new title available now. Mapping Census 2010: The Geography of American Change is an atlas of the American people—who we are, and where we are. Using the latest census data and geographic information system (GIS) technology, this atlas examines how our unique population is moving and changing.
Mapping Census 2010: The Geography of American Change
PN: 126987
ISBN: 9781589483194
Price: $18.95
More information can be found on the Esri Press website.
The basic building blocks of ArcGIS symbols
By Aileen Buckley, Mapping Center Lead
In ArcGIS, symbols are used not only to draw and label geographic features, but also to display various map elements, such as legends, scale bars and north arrows. They are also used to display any graphics you may add to the map, such as bounding boxes, logos, and text.
Because they are used so extensively, you may sometimes want to create your own symbols. Before you do this, it would be helpful to understand the basic building blocks of symbols.
There are three primary building blocks—fonts, colors, and pictures. To help you gain a deeper understanding of these basic building blocks and how they are used in ArcGIS symbols, we have written a series of three blog posts, each of which is dedicated to one of the building blocks. Continue reading
Pictures in ArcGIS symbols
By Aileen Buckley, Mapping Center Lead, and John Cranfill, Esri Product Engineer
There are three primary building blocks of standard symbols in ArcGIS—colors, fonts, and pictures. Previous blog entries discussed fonts and colors in ArcGIS symbols. This post discusses pictures used in marker, line, and fill symbols. It reviews the file formats that can be used for pictures and explains tiled picture fill symbols and special considerations for creating them. It also discusses what happens when you share ArcGIS documents that use pictures for symbols. Continue reading
