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

[CandaceLoya]

Live Today! AMA Event on GeoNet

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

Join our Cartography. MOOC guests here on the GeoNet Community for a LIVE AMA (Ask Me Anything) event. The AMA will take place in this discussion thread on Tuesday, May 15, 2018, from 9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. (PDT). 

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This is an opportunity to ask our guests questions about the Cartography. MOOC course, about cartography in general, great maps, best practices or anything else that comes to mind. 

AMA Guests 

Ken Field

John Nelson‌

Wesley Jones‌

Nathan Shephard‌

Edie Punt‌

Craig Williams‌ 

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[EdiePunt]

Great question Samantha!

We often find that it's the seemingly-simple features that are the most useful and for people. A few of my favorites in ArcGIS Pro are:

• A very powerful undo-redo stack
• Ability to link multiple views, even across 2D-3D
• Multiple layouts
• Map frames in a layout clipped to any shape
• Any color used anywhere-- even in a small part of a symbol-- can be independently wholly or partially transparent
• Font preview when choosing fonts
• A very powerful explore/navigate tool

Edie

[JonGirand]

Can you recommend good search engines to locate public domain maps?

[JohnMNelson]

I google image search if I am looking for an example style or something. The Library of Congress map twitter account has lots of inspiring old maps. 

[JohnMNelson]

Here's a link to that feed. Good stuff.

LOCMaps (@LOCMaps) | Twitter 

[WesleyJones1]

David Rumsey has a great site where most are public domain (not all) David Rumsey Historical Map Collection| The Collection 

[JonGirand]

How do I do a search for public domain maps given a geographic constraint of a large scale rectangular box?

[AlexMohr2]

Can you tell us more about the use of transparency? I know some of you use it more than others, but what do like best about it? 

[JohnMNelson]

Transparency gives you the option to add a whole new visual dimension into cartography. A peer of hue and brightness, etc. You can make all sorts of cool things. Here is an example of using transparency on a DEM to look like mist.

https://nation.maps.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=80a6bf8ab21e4f538389b63580e85a48 

[AlexMohr2]

Very cool! Thanks!

[GeorgeDurkee1]

Hey, just took a quick look at DEM to fog effect. That is way, way cool. Thanks!