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Producing Maps

Cory Menzel
http://www.milsoft.com/http://www.milsoft.com/http://www.milsoft.com/


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Introduction

Cory Menzel

United Cooperative Services


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Discussion Topics

Concepts of making a map

Map Set Up

General Map Printing

Overview of DS Map Book

Digital Maps


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Map and Design Objectives

Map objectives

Share Information Highlight relationships

Illustrate analysis results

Decision support

Design Objectives

Manipulate the graphic characteristics

Fulfill the intended purpose


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Map Design

Audience

Reality and need to generalize Objective

Technical Limits and Scale

Mode of use

Final Design


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Types of Maps

General Map

Location/positional Variety of features and uses

Thematic Maps Distribution of an attribute

Single attribute or relationship Different objectives, different cartographic

designs


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Concerns with Designing Maps

Colors, shade patterns, and text

Perception of colors and symbols Legibility of features and text

Visual contrast and hierarchy

Visual Balance

Size

Value


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Setting up the page

Remember the purpose.

Will the map be viewed up close or at a distan What is the best page size?

Landscape or portrait?

What printer will I be using, and what are my

size limitations?


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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


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Elements of a Map

Title

Map Body

North Arrow

Legend

Scale Bar Other text

Author name, Logo, date of map


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Inserting Layout Elements

1.Choose type.

2.Choice appears on page.

3.Drag and place.

4.Modify as needed.


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Layout Tools

Zoom and Pan layout tools

Additional layout settings from Tools > Op

Layout Options


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Legend Properties

Double ClickModify


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North Arrows and Scale Bars

Change unit, increments, c

and fontChange symbol, color, size


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Incorporating a Reference System

Displaying reference positions on the maps

Available reference system:

Graticule

Lat/Long

Measured Grid

Map Units

Reference Grid

ABC/123

Different graticule or gird types on the same map

WindMilMap will use the grid system that is already in Win


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Inserting Textual Information

Title and Author

Data source, date, projection

Date of map and of data

Disclosures and acknowledgements


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Grids and Rulers

Determine the size of the map elements.

Use guides to arrange elements.

Use grids to position elements at specific

Use snapping for precision and efficiency


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Creating and Using Map Templates

Gives all maps in a series the same look

ArcMap templates

Create your own


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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


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One Time Printing


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Page and Print Setup

Printer Selection

Paper Map Page Size


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Printer Setup

Paper Size and

type Rotation

Orientation

Print Quality


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DS MapBook


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Overview

DS MapBook

Map Series Toolbar Creating a Map Book

Page Specific Elements

Identifiers Printing and Exporting

Context Menu Options


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DS MapBook

MapBook is a free ESRI plug-in to help de

and produce a map. MapBook is open-source.

To download DS MapBook, go to the ESR

Developer Network (EDN) at http://edn.es

and search for DSMapBook.


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DS MapBook

Allows you the ability to use an index laye

build pages in a book

Adds a MapBook tab to the Table of Cont

Adds the Map Series Toolbar


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Map Series Toolbar

Create Map Book - Generate a new Map Series based on your

Add Identifier Frame - Add Local or Global Indicator frames to s

position of the page/tile in reference to the other tiles.

Create/Update Map Grids - Generate or Update index layers ba

uniformed grid.

Create Stripmap Grids - Generate an index layer based on a co

set of selected line features.


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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.


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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

o Choose tiles that only have data you need


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Creating a Map Book

Extento 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 variationbetween pages.

o Data driven This option should be used

when you have specific scales that go with

each page (tile) in your series.


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Creating a Map Book

Optionso Rotation This is also an attribute-driven

option. If you want to apply rotations tothe 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.


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Creating a Map Book

After specifying the options on the

third page of the wizard, click the

Finish button and the Map Series willbe generated.

The page layout you have defined

does not change as you switch

between the different pages in yourseries. You can update the layout at

any time, as this information is not

currently stored with the series.


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Page Specific Elements

The following items can be added to the layout and will be updated

by-page basis:

o Date will be updated to the current date each time a page is gene

o Title will be updated to the name of the page when the page is ge

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 fiel

index layer

o Identif iers (Local and Global) these show the position of the cur

relation to the other pages/tiles

Id tifi (L l d Gl b l)


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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 aLocal 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.

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Context Menu Options

Right-clicking on any item on the

Map Book tab in the Table ofContents will give you a context

menu.

You will be presented with a

different set of choices

depending on what you click on.

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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.

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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 updatedwith the current date each time the page is activated or output.

Tag as Tit le 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.

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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 pagesfrom 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


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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


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Printing and Exporting

To output a single page, access the context menu for that page a

either Print Page or Export Page.

To output a series of pages, access the context menu on the Maand select either Print Series or Export Series. The dialog that ap

allows you to specify the pages you want to output, or you can c

output the pages you have enabled by some other method (more

enabling of pages later).

To output all the pages in your Series, you can either access the

export dialogs from the Map Series context menu and select All, the context menu from the Map Book and select Print Map Book

Map Book. The options on the Map Book context menu only allo

print all of the pages.

Exporting


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Exporting

Export to

Type Page Range

Enabled pages


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Digital Maps

ESRI Publisher


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ESRI Publisher

ESRI Extension

Publish a .pmf file to openin ArcReader

ArcReader Free from ESRI

Need to use the

WindMilMap Publish tool

to unlink from WindMil


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ESRI Publisher Settings


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Optional

Functionality


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ArcReader

CustomArcReader

ArcGIS

Application



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ArcReader



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Time Out

Comments

GeoPDF Plug In By TerraGo Technologies


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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


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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 ADiscover)

Display attributes of polygons and polylines as object data

Things to Remember


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Things to Remember

Become the potential user before map de

are considered.

Is the Map easy to read and understand?

Is less more?
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