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: Mapping Population Density with ArcGIS Pro
ArcGIS Pro offers some powerful functionality to map population density. In this tutorial, we’ll use population density data from the European Union to map population density values using the Natural Breaks (Jenks) method of classification. This method of...
Tutorial: Customize a Label Class with Python in ArcGIS Pro
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to measure distances of rivers and use Python to show these on a map using a label class. ArcGIS Pro offers flexible labeling capabilities to communicate multiple properties of a single feature to the map reader. Here, we’ll use a...
Tutorial: Creating Custom Basemaps with ArcGIS Pro
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a custom basemap with ArcGIS Pro and add it to the default basemap gallery in Pro so you can use it for other projects. There are two ways to do this. First, we create an empty basemap and add data to it. Next, we’ll...