topic Creating layers from &quot;stylized&quot; maps in ArcGIS Pro Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/creating-layers-from-quot-stylized-quot-maps/m-p/164022#M7406 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Our organization recently went through some branding efforts and a design company has created some maps for us. The map styles use simplified shapes, but follow geographies "for the most part." As we do not have a graphic designer on staff, I am trying to combine efforts when making visualizations where possible. I want to try to find a way to add these map styles that have been created for us into ArcGIS Pro as a layer so that plotting nearby assets is a simpler workflow.</P><P></P><P>I know you can take a raster image and georeference it, which is a possibility. But I was curious as to whether this would be possible with a vector file where paths are already separated out. For instance, can I upload an InDesign or Illustrator file and bring it into Pro and tell it that this path corresponds to this county?</P><P></P><P>Have other folks done this type of work? Where you need to go from 100% correct geographic data to a more stylized format? Do you just make the map in Esri and do all the post work in another program? Do you have suggestions on resources to show this?</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 14 Jul 2020 23:06:37 GMT ChelsieWollett 2020-07-14T23:06:37Z Creating layers from "stylized" maps https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/creating-layers-from-quot-stylized-quot-maps/m-p/164022#M7406 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Our organization recently went through some branding efforts and a design company has created some maps for us. The map styles use simplified shapes, but follow geographies "for the most part." As we do not have a graphic designer on staff, I am trying to combine efforts when making visualizations where possible. I want to try to find a way to add these map styles that have been created for us into ArcGIS Pro as a layer so that plotting nearby assets is a simpler workflow.</P><P></P><P>I know you can take a raster image and georeference it, which is a possibility. But I was curious as to whether this would be possible with a vector file where paths are already separated out. For instance, can I upload an InDesign or Illustrator file and bring it into Pro and tell it that this path corresponds to this county?</P><P></P><P>Have other folks done this type of work? Where you need to go from 100% correct geographic data to a more stylized format? Do you just make the map in Esri and do all the post work in another program? Do you have suggestions on resources to show this?</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 14 Jul 2020 23:06:37 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/creating-layers-from-quot-stylized-quot-maps/m-p/164022#M7406 ChelsieWollett 2020-07-14T23:06:37Z Re: Creating layers from "stylized" maps https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/creating-layers-from-quot-stylized-quot-maps/m-p/164023#M7407 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Try the Esri's Vector Basemap Editor. You can tweak elements of a basemap and save as your own.&nbsp;</P><P></P><P>Gets you 85% of the way there.</P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 18 Jul 2020 14:06:55 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/creating-layers-from-quot-stylized-quot-maps/m-p/164023#M7407 BrianE 2020-07-18T14:06:55Z