Designing Maps with ArcGIS (10.7)

This course teaches how to create attractive maps that are easy to interpret and properly designed for their audience and delivery medium, with an emphasis on applying fundamental cartographic design principles. You will learn how to follow a standard cartographic workflow to efficiently produce high-quality maps for print and online use.

Course Outline - Designing Maps with ArcGIS (10.7)

Audience

Cartographers and GIS analysts, specialists, mapping technicians, and others who need to produce maps using ArcGIS software.

Goals

Plan a cartographic project.
Choose appropriate data to support cartographic needs.
Create appropriate symbology, map elements, and layout designs for a given map project.
Create labels and annotation that are easy to read by the map's intended audience.
Produce effective maps for print and web delivery.

Prerequisites:

Completion of ArcGIS 2: Essentials Workflows or equivalent knowledge is required.

Completion of ArcGIS 1: Introduction to GIS is required.

Cartographic planning process

Cartographic workflow
Defining map purpose, audience, and specifications

Evaluating data

Data considerations
Evaluating geometry and attributes
Evaluating scale
Choosing a coordinate system

Cartographic design principles

Design considerations for printed and web maps
Visual weight, contrast, and figure ground
Understanding effective use of color
Designing color schemes and symbols

Advanced symbology techniques

Symbol-level drawing for advanced cartographic effects
Cartographic representations
Symbology considerations for map services

Map text

Text placement guidelines for point, line, and polygon features
Type basics for cartography
Text-editing workflow
Creating labels with Maplex
Working with annotation

Designing a map for the web

Design and performance considerations
Best practices
Types of map services
Specifying the tiling scheme
Analyzing a map document
Previewing and publishing map services

Creating maps for print

Design considerations
Coordinate system considerations
Cached and dynamic map services

Creating map layouts and map series

Creating a balanced map layout
Map elements
Dynamic text
Creating a map series using data driven pages
Exporting a map series to a PDF document.

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Designing Maps with ArcGIS (10.7)