Making Maps in ArcGIS
A brief introduction to
�Cartography
Jeff Jenness
jeffj@jennessent.com (928) 607-4638
Cartographic Trivia!
The strange case of Agloe, New York…
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Along with his employee Ernest Alpers, made up the name Agloe
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Otto G. Lindberg
https://exploringupstate.com/town-never-existed-agloe-ny/
The strange case of Agloe, New York…
Along with his employee Ernest Alpers, made up the name Agloe
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Otto G. Lindberg
https://exploringupstate.com/town-never-existed-agloe-ny/
The strange case of Agloe, New York…
Along with his employee Ernest Alpers, made up the name Agloe
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Otto G. Lindberg
https://exploringupstate.com/town-never-existed-agloe-ny/
The strange case of Agloe, New York…
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Main Topics
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Main Topics
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Main Topics
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Main Topics
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Common Map Components�Although these are not hard-and-fast rules!
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Common Map Components�Although these are not hard-and-fast rules!
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Common Map Components�Although these are not hard-and-fast rules!
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Common Map Components�Although these are not hard-and-fast rules!
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Common Map Components�Although these are not hard-and-fast rules!
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Common Map Components�Although these are not hard-and-fast rules!
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Common Map Components�Although these are not hard-and-fast rules!
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Common Map Components�Although these are not hard-and-fast rules!
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Common Map Components�Although these are not hard-and-fast rules!
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Common Map Components�Although these are not hard-and-fast rules!
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Common Map Components�Although these are not hard-and-fast rules!
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Common Map Components�Although these are not hard-and-fast rules!
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Common Map Components�Although these are not hard-and-fast rules!
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Common Map Components�Although these are not hard-and-fast rules!
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Common Map Components�Although these are not hard-and-fast rules!
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“Map-making had never been a precise art on the Discworld. People tended to start off with good intentions and then get so carried away with the spouting whales, monsters, waves and other twiddly bits of cartographic furniture that they often forgot to put the boring mountains and rivers in at all.”
Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures
Grid and AOI (Area of Interest)
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AOI�(Area of Interest)��A Mexican spotted owl found nearly 300 miles away from where we captured and banded it
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I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and find it hard to believe. The names, the shapes of the woodlands, the courses of the roads and rivers, the prehistoric footsteps of man still distinctly traceable up hill and down dale, the mills and the ruins, the ponds and the ferries, perhaps the standing stone or the druidic circle on the heath; here is an inexhaustible fund of interest for any man with eyes to see or twopence-worth of imagination to understand with.
Robert Louis Stephenson
AOI
�The Rio de Flag watershed���Slightly over 200 square miles
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Reference Lines on your Map
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Reference Lines on your Map
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Reference Lines on your Map
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Reference Lines on your Map
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Reference Lines on your Map
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Rhumb Lines�
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Rhumb Lines�
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Rhumb Lines�
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Rhumb Lines�
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Rhumb Lines�
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Multiple Maps to Tell a Single Story
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Fun with Inset maps
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Fun with Inset maps
Road atlases use this method a lot.
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Fun with Inset maps
“A map is the greatest of all epic poems. Its lines and colors show the realization of great dreams.”
Gilbert H. Grosvenor
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Exceptions to the Rules:
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Exceptions to the Rules:
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Exceptions to the Rules:
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Exceptions to the Rules:
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Sometimes angle to North varies…
“I have an existential map. It has ‘You are here’ written all over it.”
Steven Wright
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“Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible.”
Mark Jenkins, “To Timbuktu”
Sometimes the map can just be a graphic that adds flavor to something else. This map was only used as a poster background.
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“A good map is both a useful tool and a magic carpet to far away places.”
Nelson Bryant
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A few guidelines
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A few guidelines
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A few guidelines
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A few guidelines
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A few guidelines
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A few guidelines
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A Note on Color Blindness…
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Be careful with red-to-green color ramps!
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Aerial and Satellite photography is often fun to play with and sometimes useful to map, but it can also tend to blind you with too much detail.
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“The more accurate the map, the more it resembles the territory. The most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless.”
Neil Gaiman, American Gods
Issue with Esri Basemaps
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Solution is to make your layout page larger. If you want an 8.5 x 11 map, try doubling the layout size to 17 x 22 and then shrinking the exported map image in image-editing software like Photoshop.
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Making Maps in ArcGIS Pro
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Making Maps in ArcGIS Pro
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Making Maps in ArcGIS Pro
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Making Maps in ArcGIS Pro
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Making Maps in ArcGIS Pro
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Making Maps in ArcGIS Pro
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Adding map elements is easy
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Automatic Basemap Service Layer Credits
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Automatic Basemap Service Layer Credits
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Automatic Basemap Service Layer Credits
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Automatic Basemap Service Layer Credits
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Automatic Basemap Service Layer Credits
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Automatic Basemap Service Layer Credits
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Automatic Basemap Service Layer Credits
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A Few Good Data Sources
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Another Class:
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Other Resources
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Other Resources
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Other Resources
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