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Advanced ArcGIS Pro for Cartography
Ideas / Techniques / Tutorials
See also: Story Map Tutorials and Links
See also: ESRI's Maps We Love (examples of recent maps, most of them made with ArcGIS Pro)
https://www.esri.com/en-us/maps-we-love/overviewNote that some of these links may be out of date (either a dead link, or not applicable to the current version of ArcGIS Pro software...)
One-Minute Map Hacks
One Minute Map Hacks (1-5): (main link not working - but can use:
One Minute Map Hacks (6-10): Water lines, instragram, georeference, map rotation, pencil-sketch...
One Minute Map Hacks (11-15): Lines from labels, tattered paper edges, vintage textures, feature-level opacity, depth for an inset map...
One Minute Map Hacks (16-20): (main link not working - but you can use:
One Minute Map Hacks (21-25): reverse area of interest (mask), spatial joins, styling default map credits, definition queries, using images as point symbols,
POINT Symbology
See Also Dot Density links under Polygon Symbology, below
Water Area
Bombing Missions Vietnam
Symbolize by Size (graduated, proportional, 3D...), also Scale-Bases Symbol Sizing
LINE Symbology
Lines Using Only Label Text (Map Hack)
Water Lines (2017)
(Forest cover and) Rivers Maps
Firefly Effects for Lines
Lightsaber Lines
Boundary Shadows (2017)
Distributive Flow Maps (2019)
Pencil-sketch lines (Map Hack)
See also VIGNETTES below
FILL / POLYGON / AREA Symbology
See also Fill Symbol Layers
Multivariate Dot Density (ethnic populations) (2018)
Dot Density (Covid 19)
Ethnic Multivariate Dot Density
Historic Survey Plan maps (2018)
UK Election Results, ala Jackson Pollock
- https://carto.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=661d96be9fe64b3db4124546b67b2f39
Note that this is a web map, but the symbology was created in ArcGIS Pro. Check it out, and the discussion)
Sun Glints (2018)
Firefly Effects for Polygons
Blend Modes - aren't (yet) available for Pro 2.6 (as of Fall, 2020), but are promised in the next release (and are available in ArcGIS Online)... See Blend Modes in ArcGIS Online and Thematic Blend Modes for general info...)
TEXT Tips
See also, SAL Tutorials for general Text Effects https://huxley.wwu.edu/sal/tut-cart-arcgis-pro
ArcGIS Pro Map Text (2019):
Labels
Annotation
Knockouts
Layout Text
Map of Rivers using only Labels (link not working...)
Style That Text! Map Hack (Text fill symbols)
Cartographic Text Effects (Or, how to make crisp lettering less crisp... so as to match the style of the rest of the map)
Symbol STYLES
WARNING: Some Styles (especially picture fills) can be very SLOW... (turning layers off can help)
See also: Adding Styles to a Project (w/ links to some styles) https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-pro/health/new-arcgis-pro-style-files/
See also: Using Styles (Map Hack) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxJSIjXjDsY
See also: Making / Saving an ArcGIS Pro Style https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkE6TxdkjtI
See also: Adding Styles (.stylx files) to ArcGIS Pro (SAL) https://huxley.wwu.edu/sal/tut-pro-styles
See also: ESRI Styles https://esri-styles.maps.arcgis.com/home/index.html
See also: ESRI Styles Gallery https://esri-styles.maps.arcgis.com/home/gallery.html
See also: Importing Older Styles into ArcGIS Pro https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/mapping/mapping/importing-older-styles-into-arcgis-pro/
Luminance Symbols (2017)
Also Points Symbols Glow with Firefly
Firefly Symbology
- https://www.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=bf439954e2b64d418aedd2fe11217d83
- Also (2018) https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/mapping/mapping/steal-this-firefly-style-please/
- Also https://nation.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=bf439954e2b64d418aedd2fe11217d83
- Also https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=93a6d9ea3b54478193ba566ab9d8b748
See also Firefly Effects for Lines and Polygons
Lightsaber Lines
National Park Symbol Set (2018)
Hachures (downhill markers along contour lines)
Pirate style
Tattered Paper Effect (Map Hack)
Overlay Fade style
- https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-pro/mapping/steal-this-faded-overlay-style-please/
- https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=e9c4f4cd7c1d4bac884091689b2985d1
- Note that you'll need to create a 'mask' layer (i.e., everything except for the area you want to focus on) to use this effect. You can use the Erase tool to remove your area from a larger area (i.e., the surrounding country or world) to create this mask layer. The instructions include a link to a blank 'world' polygon that can be used if needed.
Dot Matrix Elevation
George Washington Texture fills
J.R.R. Tolkien Style Mapping
See also PAPER, FELT, LEGO below
See also HAND DRAWN below
PAPER, FELT, FABRIC, LEGO... (see also Hand-Drawn, below)
Paper Cut Map Style (2019)
Paper Cut Lakes example (from Maps We Love)
Paper Cut Lake Maps
Absurd Paper Cut Maps (2017)
Stacked Paper ('Bonkers') (Map Hack)
Felt style (points, lines and fills)
Cross-Stitch
Lego Style (2019)
- https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-pro/mapping/steal-this-lego-map-style-for-arcgis-pro-please/
- Plastic Brick Oceans (2018) https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-pro/mapping/plastic-brick-oceans/
- (Be sure to see update at the end)
- Also https://warrenrdavison.wixsite.com/maps/post/brick-by-brick
- Also Lego (Map Hack) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xIHW5DTnXI
Chalkboard style map (Craigslist) (with details about the chalk "line" symbol and the chalkboard polygon fill
ANTIQUE, 'HAND' DRAWN, HAND PRINTED, WATERCOLOR, PAINT
Block Print (Pixel to Grain) (Part 1)
Tattered Maps, see also Tattered Paper Effect (Map Hack)
Pencil Sketch lines (Map Hack)
Watercolor Maps:
Watercolor Style for Pro (2018) and Watercolor style
Mega Easy Watercolor Painting (2019) https://adventuresinmapping.com/2019/12/03/mega-easy-watercolor-painting-in-arcgis-pro/
Land Cover and Paints (2020)
VIGNETTES (for SHORELINE, Map Frames, etc.)
Coastal Edge Hack (shoreline vignettes)
Map Frame Vignettes (Mack Hack)
MISC
Charts - What is a chart
also Intro to Charts (2018)
and Part 2 (Bar Charts) (2018)
Part 3 (Box Plots) (2018)
Part 4 (Historgrams and Normal Data) (2018)
Using Bivariate Colors to Map Change in Election Turnout (2020)
Island Election Maps (2017)
Cube Cartograms - Electoral College Cubo-Gram (2017)
Steampunk Election Cartogram (Part 1) (2020)
Steampunk Election Cartogram (Part 2) (2020)
Hexagons for (USA) Population
How to do Round Map Frames (for an Inset locator or detail map - one part of a larger tutorial)
Adding Depth to Global Overview (round) inset maps (drop shadow and highlight) (Map Hack)
Fade Effects (part of the Ice Roads series) (2019)
Custom Projection (part of the Ice Roads series) (2019)
Colors and Color Pallets (2014)
Color: Beyond simple choropleth maps (basketball viewership) (2017)
Grid Lines
Old-Style, Two-Tone (BW) Western "Tough" Maps
Techniques for Showing Areas of Interest
Symbol Effects
Drop Shadows (see Move effect)
also figure-ground drop shadows (2011)
See also drop shadows for Text
Figure-Ground Feathering (for ArcMap but the concepts would apply / translate to Pro)
Measured Hatches along Line symbols
Vary Transparency by Attribute
Digital Map Folding (Part 1: 2D) (making a map appear as a folded piece of paper)
Bivariate Mapping...
Age and Social Vulnerability (2020)
Bivariate Relationship Mapping (2018)
Bivariate Choropleth Maps (not ArcGIS Pro, but the concepts can be adapted)
Bivariate contextual mapping (point symbols for Fire and Population)
Using Bivariate Colors to Map Change in Election Turnout (2020)
Bivariate mapping using tessellating hexagons (drought, 2016)
Also, using Hexagons for Population (USA, 2018)
See also Bivariate Color Schemes in Brewer's Designing Better Maps (page 160-164)
RASTER (Elevation and Hillshades)
Throwing (Hill) Shade Gallery (2019)
Throwing (Hill) Shade (hillshade effects using Raster Functions)
Show only a slice of a DEM using the Histogram Chop
Boost Drama with Mountain / Valley Mist (Map Hack, 2019)
Hillshades that Don't Wash Out Your Map (Map Hack, 2019)
Multi-directional Streamlined Hillshade (2020)
Vintage Shaded Relief (2019)
Eduard Imhof-ish Cartography (Swiss Hillshades) (2020)
ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR
Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud (ArcGIS Pro / Adobe Illustrator bridge, released June, 2017)
Using Adobe's Maps for Creative Cloud
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP
ArcGIS map for Adobe with Photoshop (using ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud)