Producing Maps Cory Menzel

Introduction Cory Menzel United Cooperative Services

Discussion Topics Concepts of making a map Map Set Up General Map Printing Overview of DS Map Book Digital Maps

Map and Design Objectives Map objectives

Share Information Highlight relationships Illustrate analysis results Decision support Manipulate the graphic characteristics Fulfill the intended purpose

Design Objectives

Map Design Audience Reality and need to generalize Objective Technical Limits and Scale Mode of use Final Design

Types of Maps General Map

Location/positional Variety of features and uses Distribution of an attribute Single attribute or relationship

Thematic Maps

Different objectives, different cartographic designs

Concerns with Designing Maps Colors, shade patterns, and text

Perception of colors and symbols Legibility of features and text Visual contrast and hierarchy Size Value

Visual Balance

Setting up the page Remember the purpose.

Will the map be viewed up close or at a distance? What is the best page size? Landscape or portrait? What printer will I be using, and what are my printer size limitations?

Creating Maps in ArcMap Design in Layout View Data frames organize layers Map elements are added to a virtual page Maps stored as .mxd files

Data location Layer properties

Elements of a Map Title Map Body North Arrow Legend Scale Bar Other text
Author name, Logo, date of map

Inserting Layout Elements 1. Choose type. 2. Choice appears on page. 3. Drag and place. 4. Modify as needed.

Layout Tools Zoom and Pan layout tools

Additional layout settings from Tools > Options > Layout Options

Legend Properties
Modify Double Click

North Arrows and Scale Bars

Change symbol, color, size

Change unit, increments, color, and font

Incorporating a Reference System

Displaying reference positions on the maps Available reference system:

Graticule

Lat/Long Map Units ABC/123

Measured Grid

Reference Grid

Different graticule or gird types on the same map WindMilMap will use the grid system that is already in WindMil.

Inserting Textual Information Title and Author Data source, date, projection Date of map and of data

Disclosures and acknowledgements

Grids and Rulers Determine the size of the map elements. Use guides to arrange elements. Use grids to position elements at specific points. Use snapping for precision and efficiency.

Creating and Using Map Templates Gives all maps in a series the same look ArcMap templates Create your own

Exporting a Map Exporting to an image format

o Each format has different output options

Copy a map to clipboard

o Paste into most applications

One Time Printing

Page and Print Setup Printer Selection Paper Map Page Size

Printer Setup Paper Size and type Rotation Orientation Print Quality

DS MapBook

Overview DS MapBook Map Series Toolbar Creating a Map Book Page Specific Elements Identifiers Printing and Exporting Context Menu Options

DS MapBook MapBook is a free ESRI plug-in to help design and produce a map. MapBook is open-source. To download DS MapBook, go to the ESRI Developer Network (EDN) at http://edn.esri.com/ and search for DSMapBook.

DS MapBook Allows you the ability to use an index layer to build pages in a book Adds a MapBook tab to the Table of Contents Adds the Map Series Toolbar

Map Series Toolbar

Create Map Book - Generate a new Map Series based on your index layer. Add Identifier Frame - Add Local or Global Indicator frames to show the position of the page/tile in reference to the other tiles. Create/Update Map Grids - Generate or Update index layers based on a uniformed grid. Create Stripmap Grids - Generate an index layer based on a continuous set of selected line features.

Creating a Map Book

Click on the Create Map Book button. Map Sheet Wizard opens. Choose the detail data frame. Choose the index layer, such as a WM Grid Layer. Then choose the name of the page.

Creating a Map Book Choose to use all tiles or just the visible tiles Start page numbering

Can select which tiles you want to use or not use

o Choose tiles that only have data you need

Creating a Map Book

Extent
o Variable Sets the extent to the envelope of the tile feature plus any margin you specify. The scale of each individual page in your box will be different if your tiles are not of uniform size. o Fixed Sets the scale of each page to what you specify. There will be no variation between pages. o Data driven This option should be used when you have specific scales that go with each page (tile) in your series.

Creating a Map Book

Options
o Rotation This is also an attribute-driven option. If you want to apply rotations to the data frame on each individual page, then you need to have a numeric field on your index grid that contains these values. o Clip Turn on this option if you want the data to be clipped to the shape of your tile. o Label Adjacent Tiles There are multiple ways to identify the tiles that are adjacent to the tile represented by the current page.

Creating a Map Book

After specifying the options on the third page of the wizard, click the Finish button and the Map Series will be generated. The page layout you have defined does not change as you switch between the different pages in your series. You can update the layout at any time, as this information is not currently stored with the series.

Page Specific Elements

The following items can be added to the layout and will be updated on a pageby-page basis:
o Date will be updated to the current date each time a page is generated o Title will be updated to the name of the page when the page is generated o Page Number will be updated to the number of the page/tile o Extra Item will be updated based on the value in the specified field from the index layer o Identifiers (Local and Global) these show the position of the current page in relation to the other pages/tiles

Identifiers (Local and Global)

Choose the Add Identifier Frame button on the Map Book toolbar. The dialogue will ask you whether you want to add a Local or Global Identifier. Click on the OK button - at this point the Identifier tool will be active, so you need to drag out a box on the layout to identify the position for the Identifier Frame. Select the Identifier Layer from the Table of Contents on the Local Indicator or Global Indicator frame (depending on which type of Identifier you added) and change the selection symbol, label characteristics, etc. as you see fit.

Context Menu Options Right-clicking on any item on the Map Book tab in the Table of Contents will give you a context menu. You will be presented with a different set of choices depending on what you click on.

Map Book Context Menu

Add Map Series Opens up the wizard for generating a new Map Series. Print Map Book Opens up the dialog for printing all of the pages in your book. Export Map Book Opens up the dialog for exporting all of the pages in your book.

Map Series Context Menu

Select/Enable Pages opens up the dialog for selecting/enabling pages based on a query of the Last Output date or the Scale for the page (select and unselect all also available). Tag as Date tags the selected Text Element, so that it is updated with the current date each time the page is activated or output. Tag as Title tags the selected Text Element, so that it is updated with the name of the page/tile each time the page is activated or output. Tag as Page Number tags the selected Text Element, so that it is updated with the number of the page/tile each time the page is activated or output. Tag with Index Layer Field tags the selected Text Element with a field from the index layer. Element is updated with the value from current tile/page.

Map Series Context Menu

Clear Tag for Selected clears any tags that have been set on the selected text elements. Delete Series deletes the entire map series. Delete Disabled Pages removes the currently disabled pages from the series. Disable Series disables the entire series. Print Series opens up the dialog to print pages in the series. Export Series opens up the dialog for exporting pages in the series. Create Series Index opens up a dialog for creating an index based on the features that fall on each tile (i.e., a street index). Series Properties brings up a dialog showing the properties of the series. Only the options for the series can be changed. Page Properties brings up a dialog showing the Name, Scale, Rotation, and Last Output values for the pages in the series.

Map Page Context Menu

View Page activates (displays) the page. Delete Page removes the page from the series. Disable Page disables/enables the page. o This option is used to limit the pages that are output when you Print or Export from the Map Series context menu. Print Page allows printing of the individual page. Export Page allows exporting of the individual page.

Printing and Exporting

To output a single page, access the context menu for that page and select either Print Page or Export Page. To output a series of pages, access the context menu on the Map Series and select either Print Series or Export Series. The dialog that appears allows you to specify the pages you want to output, or you can choose to output the pages you have enabled by some other method (more on the enabling of pages later). To output all the pages in your Series, you can either access the print and export dialogs from the Map Series context menu and select All, or access the context menu from the Map Book and select Print Map Book or Export Map Book. The options on the Map Book context menu only allow you to print all of the pages.

Exporting Export to Type Page Range Enabled pages

Digital Maps

ESRI Publisher ESRI Extension Publish a .pmf file to open in ArcReader ArcReader Free from ESRI Need to use the WindMilMap Publish tool to unlink from WindMil

ESRI Publisher Settings Layers Views

ESRI Publisher Settings Optional Functionality

ESRI Publisher Settings Password Protection IMS Layer Password ArcWeb Services Login and Password Data Packaging

ESRI Publisher Settings ArcReader Custom ArcReader ArcGIS Application

ESRI Publisher Settings ArcReader

ESRI Publisher Settings Time Out Comments

GeoPDF Plug In By TerraGo Technologies

GeoPDF is built upon standard Adobe PDF. GeoPDF Format Supports: Georegistration Standard coordinate reference systems & projections Layers Intelligent object data Measure distances & area Two way collaboration using comments & markup tools Export GIS industry standard format (.shp & KML) GeoPDF opens in standard Adobe Reader Free GeoPDF Toolbar adds geospatial tools.

GeoPDF Toolbar
Displays map coordinates Re-projects map coordinates Allows query of attributes of map objects Allows the manipulation of map layer display Measurement of distance & direction between points Enables zoom to points and objects by coordinates Displays locations and tracks from GPS units (GeoTrack Auto Discover) Display attributes of polygons and polylines as object data

Things to Remember Become the potential user before map designs are considered. Is the Map easy to read and understand? Is less more?

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