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: 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...
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...