Creating Maps and Visualizations with ArcGIS
Strictly by pre-registration only
What is this course about?
Learn fundamental cartographic design principles and a standard workflow to produce print and online maps tailored to their purpose, medium, and intended audience. This course teaches ArcGIS Pro techniques to create and share a variety of professional-quality information products including print maps, web maps, 3D scenes, animations, and charts.
Course details
Location
Jakarta
Duration
3 days
Level
Intermediate
Category
Visualisation, Editing and Analysis Course
Are there any prerequisites?
Completion of ArcGIS Pro: Essential Workflows or Migrating from ArcMap to ArcGIS Pro or equivalent knowledge.
What skills will I learn?
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Prepare data for a mapping project.
- Design map elements that are appropriate for your data, audience, map purpose, and delivery medium.
- Apply 2D and 3D cartographic best practices to create and share print maps, web maps, and 3D scenes.
- Create animations to dynamically visualize data and change over time.
What can I expect?
- Course topics
Introduction to designing maps and visualizations
- Why create maps?
- Audience and purpose
- ArcGIS information products
- Design considerations
- The cartographic workflow
- Cartographic workflow: Planning
Data for information products
- Cartographic workflow: Data
- Evaluating spatial data
- Levels of measurement
- Evaluate levels of measurement
- Accuracy and precision
- Sources of error
- Scale and resolution
- Coordinate systems
- Generalization techniques
- Prepare data
Symbolizing data
- Cartographic workflow: Symbology
- Components of color
- Visual variables
- Choosing visual variables
- Designing symbols
- Symbolizing by attribute
- Design symbols for a map
- Visualizing data ranges
- Color schemes
- Figure-ground organization
- Reference and thematic maps
- Symbolize a map
Working with map text
- Cartographic workflow: Symbology - Text
- Types of map text
- Text placement
- Using text to create visual hierarchy
- Visual variables for text symbols
- Type basics for cartography
- Create map text
Print map layouts
- Cartographic workflow: Layout and output
- Creating a pattern of reading
- Map elements
- Map description
- Map scale
- Map orientation
- Visual balance and hierarchy in print maps
- Create a print map layout
Design considerations for web maps
- Web maps
- Web maps versus print maps
- Audience and purpose
- Create a web map using ArcGIS Online
- Devices and software
- Cartography and user experience
- Predominance web maps
- Create a relationship map in ArcGIS Online
Publishing web maps for multiple devices
- Projections in web maps
- Map scales and symbol sizes
- Tile layers
- Web map symbology
- Design and publish a web map
- Configuring pop-ups
- Create a web map for multiple devices
Creating 3D scenes
- Functional surfaces
- Why use 3D?
- Web scenes
- Global and local 3D scenes
- Scene styles
- Elements of a 3D scene
- Surfaces
- Features
- Apply textures to features in a 3D scene
- 3D text and labeling
- Scene surrounds and effects
- Create a 3D scene
Visualizing data using charts
- When to use charts, maps, or both
- Why use charts?
- Using charts in information products
- Visualize data using charts
- Types of charts
- Create charts for a visualization
Animations
- Types of animation in ArcGIS
- Animation components
- What makes an animation effective?
- Create a camera animation
- Dynamic visual variables
- Create a temporal animation