May 15, 2018: Cartography. MOOC Ask Me Anything (AMA)

CandaceLoya · ‎04-30-2018

Live Today! AMA Event on GeoNet

Tuesday, May 15, 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. (PDT)

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AMA Guests

Ken Field

John Nelson‌

Wesley Jones‌

Nathan Shephard‌

Edie Punt‌

Craig Williams‌

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PatrickOlsen1 · ‎05-14-2018

... and no, I'm not British.

KenField · ‎05-15-2018

All good. I have all three. I'd say the latter is more practically focused. It also bridges pure cartography with design in a more general sense. It has far more examples than the others. It's visually enticing and less, ahem, academic in layout,structure and tone. It also has somewhere in the order of 100 contributors which means it's a collective 'voice' for what cartography is in 2018. There's a reason it has a period (full stop) at the end of the title...it's really the only book you need going forward. A desk companion, a sage, a reference, a compendium of sound advice and encouragement to think about the importance of thinking in cartographic design.

All that said, it's really up for others to review and determine how they see my contribution. And that's something I am scared stiff of!!!

CathyWilson2 · ‎05-15-2018

Would you please enlighten those of us who have no idea what those are? Books?

Thank you!

LawrenceTucker · ‎05-14-2018

I have encountered some strange "zig zag" lines while working with an .mxd file and downloading some tax parcel property lines onto the map. I am creating a map of a small area of about 5 towns and have added a layer which is actually a polygon on top of the raster image of the area I am studying. The taxpar "lines" don't look like lines at all ,but rather appear like a sawblade edge. They also do get really fuzzy and pixelated when I zoom in.

Please help as this is a very important project for us.

thanks,

Larry

JohnMNelson · ‎05-15-2018

Hi Larry. When line features are really packed with curves the nodes and curves can really stack up at some scales. Try generalizing your line. Also, play with the line symbol. You can change the bends to look rounded, which is a super trick.

LawrenceTucker · ‎05-15-2018

John,

Thanks much for your help. I have tried to change the symbol and that has not worked.

I have attached a "snip" of what I am encountering.

the lines appear to be vectors, but perhaps you are on to something by referring to them as curves.

Also, need to address the blurring or pixelating when I zoom in.

thanks,

LT

LorenMuehlius · ‎05-15-2018

I know in ArcGIS Desktop if you had a layer with transparency above other layers, it would rasterize layers below (even vector layers). Don't know if Pro does this, but may be something to look at.

Loren

CraigWilliams · ‎05-15-2018

Can you provide more information about how you're bringing this data into Google Earth? As a service? Exported as KML?

CraigWilliams · ‎05-15-2018

Your lines are vector or are they part of the raster? It sounds like you may be looking at raster data.

LawrenceTucker · ‎05-15-2018

Craig,

Thanks much for your help. I have tried to change the symbol and that has not worked.

I have attached a "snip" of what I am encountering.

the lines appear to be vectors, but perhaps you are on to something by referring to them as curves.

Also, need to address the blurring or pixelating when I zoom in.

thanks,

LT