Mapping with ArcGIS Pro : design accurate and user-friendly maps to share the story of your data / Amy Rock, Ryan Malhoski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rock, Amy, author.

Malhoski, Ryan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

ArcGIS--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

ArcGIS.

Geographic information systems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England ; Mumbai, [India] : Packt, 2018.

Biography/History:

Rock Amy: Dr. Amy Rock is a community geographer and an avid proponent of community leadership. Her research and projects include using GIS to examine economic relationships, economic accessibility, public participation in the federal block grant process, and commercial government GIS projects. She is currently teaching on the award-winning cartography program at Humboldt State University, and she is a director of their Online Geospatial Certificate Program. Malhoski Ryan: Ryan Malhoski is a GIS developer with over 10 years of GIS experience. He has a bachelor's degree in GIS and urban planning from Sacramento State University. He is currently a GIS developer for the City of Sacramento in the enterprise applications division. He spent over 6 years working for the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers as a geographer, where he was the GIS lead and project manager for multiple civil works and military projects. Ryan volunteers for Code for Sacramento, a brigade of Code for America, where he has volunteered for 2 years and just recently became Captain of the brigade.

Summary:

ArcGIS Pro is a geographic information system for working with maps and geographic information. Mapping with ArcGIS Pro will help readers create visually stunning maps that increase the legibility of the stories being mapped and introduce visual and design concepts into a traditionally scientific, data-driven process.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Dedication

Packt Upsell

Contributors

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: How Maps Get Made

Knowing your audience

Clear expectations

Setting yourself up for a great map

Data management is important

Project folder structure

Project file naming

Finding authoritative datasets

Searching the web for authoritative data

ArcGIS Online

Outlining the work ahead

Summary

Chapter 2: Getting Started in ArcGIS Pro

Opening a project

Organizing the Contents pane

Adding data to your map

Arranging layers

Renaming layers

Working in the Map View

Symbolizing layers

Adding a little something extra

Symbolizing multiple values

Setting bookmarks

Transitioning to the Layout View

Page setup

Working with map frames

Creating a map output

Adding map elements

Sharing your map

Practice on your own

Chapter 3: Organizing the Page Structure

Beginning the mapping process

Achieving good design

Finding balance

Establishing harmony

Creating unity

Working with multiple data frames

Planning out your map

Chapter 4: Typographic Principles

Using type on maps

Understanding letterforms

Choosing and pairing fonts

Choosing fonts

Pairing fonts

Building map grammar

Labeling in ArcGIS Pro

Working with point features

Working with line features

Working with area features

Titles and other map elements

Chapter 5: Picking Colors with Confidence

Defining color

Color models

Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black (CMYK)

Red, Green, Blue (RGB)

Hue, Saturation, Value (HSV)

Hexadecimal

Setting colors in Pro

Color wheel

Warm and cool colors

Complementary colors

Working with color.

Color theory

Color as a visual variable

Color schemes

Color schemes in ArcGIS Pro

Importing schemes

Color as accent

Moving beyond the basics

Value-by-alpha

Sophisticated spot color

Color moods

Color acuity

Chapter 6: All Maps Are Approximations of Reality

Determining the style of your map

Better understanding of your map

Reference maps

Thematic maps

Special purpose maps

Maybe changing it a little will help make it clearer

Reducing noise

To default basemap or not to default basemap

Generalizing boundaries

Labeling

Scale of your data

Normalizing data

Aggregating data

Aggregation methods

Boundary

Heat map

Grid

Hex bins

Chapter 7: Understanding and Choosing Projections

The world is round, and maps are flat

The deceiving classroom map

Reconciling 3D to 2D

Geographic coordinate systems

Geoid

Spheroid

Datum

Transformations

Projected coordinate systems

Cylindrical

Conic

Planar

Distortion

State plane coordinate systems

Choosing a projection

Coordinate system properties

Elevation or the Z

Vertical coordinate systems

Tidal datums

Chapter 8: Clean Symbology and Uncluttered Maps

Representing features with graphics

Symbol systems and symbol conventions

Scales of measurement

Visual variables

Point symbols

Line symbols

Area symbols

Classifying data

Proportional and graduated symbols

Making symbols dynamic

Controlling visibility at scale

Attribute-driven symbology

Practicing on your own

Chapter 9: Getting Started with ArcGIS Online

The components of ArcGIS Online

Data tier

GIS tier

Web tier

Web GIS services

Feature layer

Tile layer

Scene layer.

Elevation layer

ArcGIS Online overview

Accounts

Public account

Organizational account

Levels, roles, and privileges

Levels

Roles

Privileges

The organization

Gallery

Map

Scene

Groups

Content

Organization

The item description page

Web maps

Publishing a GIS service and creating a web map

Chapter 10 : Leveraging Esri Smart Mapping

Smart mapping

Understanding your data and the story you want to tell

Using smart mapping

Choosing the attribute data to display

Location

Categories

Types (Unique Symbols)

Types and size

Numbers

Counts and Amounts (Color)

Counts and Amounts (Size)

Color and Size

Compare A to B

Predominant Category

Predominant category and size

Time

Continuous Timeline (Color)

Continuous Timeline (Size)

Age (Color)

Age (Size)

Color (age) and size, and color and size (age)

Smart mapping automatic colors

Arcade

Using math expressions

Using date expressions

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Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed April 5, 2018).

OCLC:

1030304415