Designing Maps with ArcGIS
Strictly by pre-registration only
What is this course about?
This course teaches you how to create attractive maps that are easy to interpret and properly designed for their audience and delivery medium. This course teaches you how to create attractive maps that are easy to interpret and properly designed for your 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.
This course is suitable for cartographers and GIS analysts, specialists, mapping technicians, and others who need to produce maps using ArcGIS software.
Course details
Location
Jakarta
Duration
2 days
Level
Intermediate
Category
Visualisation, Editing and Analysis Course
Are there any prerequisites?
- Completion of ArcGIS 2: Essential Workflows or equivalent knowledge is required
What skills will I learn?
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- 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
What can I expect?
- Course topics
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
- Analysing 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