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Making golf course maps with ArcMap
By Wes Jones, Esri Design Cartographer How many of you out there are golfers? Can any of you remember your lowest round? I can – I shot a marvelous 83! Sure it was over 9 holes, but I was playing from...
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Creating radial flow maps with ArcGIS
By Mamata Akella, Esri Design Cartographer Flow maps show the movement of some phenomenon, normally goods or people, from one place to another. Lines are used to symbolize the flow, typically varied in...
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Using ETOPO1 data
By Aileen Buckley, Mapping Center Lead In a previous blog entry called “Using the Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Shoreline Database“, we described a detailed and useful worldwide...
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Creating a grayscale version of any ArcGIS Online basemap
By Rajinder Nagi, Esri Cartographic Product Engineer We recently got a question on Ask a Cartographer in which Julie asked if you can create a grayscale basemap from any of the colored basemaps that...
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Combining colored and grayshade rasters with high fidelity
By Rajinder Nagi, Esri Cartographic Product Engineer Have you ever noticed when you display a colored raster, such as elevation tints, transparently over a grayscale raster, such as a hillshaded...
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Sun glints add realism to your map
By Aileen Buckley, Mapping Center Lead Sun glints are a way to add a more realistic effect to your map by modulating the tone of water features. We rarely see flat tones in nature, so using sun glints...
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Polygon fill symbols add realism to your maps
By Aileen Buckley, Mapping Center Lead When working with polygon data, it is common to symbolize these features with a colored fill and an outline (figure 1). However, if you are trying to create a...
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Picture fill symbols add realism to your maps
By Aileen Buckley, Mapping Center Lead The key to using a picture fill symbol when imparting realism is to choose one that has a random appearance. Another trick is to pick one that looks something...
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Marker fill symbols add realism to your maps
By Aileen Buckley, Mapping Center Lead Another way to create polygon symbols that appear more realistic is to use marker fill symbols that mimic what you would see on the ground, but also to vary them...
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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...
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