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Choosing Map Colors for Colorblindness, Contrast and Balance: Color Choice can Make or Break your Map Message
Color is an important symbol that helps convey the underlying meaning of your map. Color design and theory are as important in cartography as it is to make sure you include the key layers necessary to tell a meaningful story for your target...![Tutorial: Use a Vector Basemap Editor in ArcGIS Online to Customize a Basemap](https://geospatialtraining.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Vector-Tile-Style-Editor-8.png)
Tutorial: Use a Vector Basemap Editor in ArcGIS Online to Customize a Basemap
ArcGIS Online doesn’t make it incredibly clear that you can create a custom basemap for use in Map Viewer. Within the map viewer itself, there are small adjustments you can make from the basemap details and settings panel, such as darkening the hillshade layer through...![Expert Maps with Layer Blending: Free Blend Mode Guide](https://geospatialtraining.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Guide-to-Blend-Modes.png)
Expert Maps with Layer Blending: Free Blend Mode Guide
Do you feel like you spend too much time on reordering and adjusting transparency of layers just to show overlapping features, such as hillshade? If this issue is still haunting you, then you must not have moved on to ArcGIS Pro or the new Map Viewer, yet, where you...![What is Smart Mapping and Why Should I Use It?](https://geospatialtraining.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Cover-Image-for-Start-of-Article.png)