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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
Updated NPS style
By Jaynya Richards, Esri Research Cartographer
We just added to Esri’s Mapping Center ArcGIS Resources – Styles page a style that contains newly updated cartographic symbols for the National Park System (NPS). Tom Patterson, NPS Harper’s Ferry Center (HFC) cartographer, shared the symbol files with us, and we used them to create this ArcGIS 10 style, its five associated Esri fonts, and three associated graphic files. With this style, you can use the most current NPS symbology on your maps.
European road shield symbols
By Jaynya Richards, Esri Research Cartographer
We’ve just posted a new style on Mapping Center’s ArcGIS Resources > Styles page. This style contains European road shields with their real-world appearance. These symbols were used to enhance the Esri World Street Map and World Transportation reference map.
Vegetation map inspires a style with great colors
By Jaynya Richards, Esri Research Cartographer
Because we love the colors used on the vegetation map in the The National Atlas of the United States of America, one of our cartographers put together a style with these colors so you can use them on your maps, too. You can download the style from here on Mapping Center’s ArcGIS Resources > Styles page.
The National Atlas of the United States of America was published by the US Geological Survey (USGS) in 1970 and edited by Arch C. Gerlach (figure 1). Continue reading
Esri Color Ramps Version 3.0
By Jaynya Richards, Esri Research Cartographer
Now available for download from Mapping Center (zip file, 0.3MB) is an updated set of color ramps that can be used for mapping elevation, bathymetry, environmental events, and much more! These are the newest versions of color ramp styles published earlier (ColorRamps 2.0). Continue reading
Download a PDF of ArcGIS version 9.3 styles
By Jaynya Richards, Esri Cartographic Researcher
Have you ever wanted to see the contents of some of the Esri Styles so you could plan your symbology, find a particular symbol, or just see what is available to you? Download this PDF document (31 MB) to see all of the symbols that were included in version 9.3 of the software. (This document relates to the styles that are included with the complete install of the 9.3 version of ArcGIS.) The index in the PDF will help you search for specific symbols.
Because of the way that styles were reconfigured in ArcGIS 10, we do not yet have a similar PDF document for version 10 styles. If this becomes available, we will also be sure to post this for you! For now, you will be able to find many of the version 10 symbols in the version 9.3 document.
Canvas Map Color Styles
By Jaynya Richards, Esri Research Cartographer
In this blog entry, we announce a new set of color styles that you can apply to your operational overlays or to additional reference layers when using the Esri Light Gray Canvas Basemap. We created these styles to provide you with additional resources designed specifically with the Light Gray Canvas Basemap in mind.
Editing representation marker symbols in ArcMap
By Jaynya Richards, Esri Research Cartographer
Modifying existing representation marker symbols in an ArcGIS style is easier than you’d think. Follow along to learn how you can do this, too. Start with any of the Esri styles that don’t already contain representation markers, like the NPS style that we have blogged about on Mapping Center. Make a copy of the style for backup. Continue reading
About fonts in ArcMap symbols
By Jaynya Richards, Esri Research Cartographer
A typical Intel text font is a complete set of characters in a particular size and style of type. (An Intel-based system is a computer that uses a CPU from Intel, typically a Core or earlier Pentium chip). You are probably familiar with common Intel system fonts such as Arial, Times New Roman, Cambria, etc. But some fonts contain graphic symbols rather than letters and numbers. The majority of the fonts that are provided with Esri products are designed and built to function as marker symbols as opposed to text fonts. These derived symbols are called “glyph characters” and can be used to create what are called “character marker symbols” in ArcGIS. The glyph characters in the Esri fonts have had adjustments to their font glyph extent which makes them more useful as markers then as text. The extent (the bounding box of the character) characteristic most often modified is the side-bearings (the blank spaces on either side of a character) of individual characters. Continue reading
