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 

How does the AMA work?
During the AMA, you can post your questions by clicking  the "Add Reply" button below and our guests will reply to your questions in comments. You are welcome to post questions ahead of the AMA and they will answer them during the AMA.

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9:30 a.m. - And we're live! Go ahead and ask your questions!

9:45 a.m. - If you are just joining us, feel free to ask any question.

10:00 a.m. - We're halfway through, Great questions! Keep them coming!

10:15 a.m. - If you are just joining us, feel free to ask any question.

10:25 a.m. - Five minutes to go! Got any fun questions for our Guests?

10:30 a.m. - And that's a wrap! The live AMA has ended with our wonderful Cartography. MOOC Guests. 

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[KenField]

ArcMap and ArcGIS Pro come as part of the same license so you should be good to go.

As for when to switch...whenever you are comfortable. At v1.0 I still used ArcMap about 80% of the time. At v2.0 I probably switched to doing 70% of my work in Pro. Now (v2.1.2) I go to Pro first and it actually now freaks me out going back to ArcMap. So, it all depends on when you're comfortable, when Pro supports what you do and...when you make the jump!

[JamesStegall]

I finally got here!  Man, there are a lot of good stuff here.  This is my first experience with cartography.  I am probably in the lowest level users, if I am considered a user.   I do not know what to ask.  I think I will use what I have left of my lunch time and go back and work on section three.  Do not know if I can finish the course, but I will get as much done before it ends.  Jim

[WesleyJones1]

Glad you are taking the course.

[EdiePunt]

Welcome James! 
Keep working through it as you can. If you're trying to make maps, then you are definitely part of the tribe!
Edie

[PakradBalabanian1]

Another question, do you have a favorite color palettes and preferred font sets that you use.. can you share them with us?

[JohnMNelson]

Regarding the color palette question, you should check out the Viridis set of colors. Great for maps and visualization. https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/viridis/vignettes/intro-to-viridis.html

[JohnMNelson]

But usually, I start with a simple hue gradient with a slight brightness shift too. To help re-inforce the less-to-more visual. Then I just play with them manually in the Color Scheme Editor in Pro until something looks cool.

[PakradBalabanian1]

Thanks a lot.. you are the man...

[JohnMNelson]

And you can do strange but effective practical and impractical things with transparency in gradients. Here is a big collection of resources: https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-pro/analytics/interesting-and-absurd-uses-of-digita...

[WillBegley]

Ok, one more question.  What kind of other education would you guys recommend looking into to further my education?  I have a bachelors degree in Geography as well as the GIS Certificate but I was thinking about going one step further but my schedule won't exactly allow for me to sit in a class but I was thinking about online options.  Any recommendations? 

Thanks