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Make lines legible, and POP, with casing

Basemaps can be a busy place. Highly variable visual content sitting behind your line features can make them hard to see. Also, maps with lots of feature types, like road networks, need a visual hierarchy so that the primary features are most visible, and so on. Think interstate expressways vs local roads in an atlas. In cartography we use “casing” to add a visually protectiv...


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Map Layout Review & Makeover

There are a lot of things to think about and manage and tinker with when you assemble a map into a layout, but here are three overarching things to consider:

A well-balanced composition. The map and all the other elements have a visual weight. A good looking layout will balance these items, like you’d balance plates on a cafeteria tray. Organized and distilled text...


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How to make a depressed map in ArcGIS Pro

Here’s how you can create an inner shadow effect for your area of interest in ArcGIS Pro. Push the area down into the landscape with realistic lighting, using some gradient stroke hacks and an invisibility cloak. And, for giggles, the world’s fasted demo showing how to invert the effect to make the area of interest elevated from the map. Give either a whirl!

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How to make a political map in ArcGIS Pro

Here’s how you can make the classic National Geographic sort of political style map, with inner tint band ribbon buffalo tint things, AND ensure no colors touch each other. We’ll use way more tools than you think and rely on a hotly contested mathematical theorem!All from the comfort of ArcGIS Pro.

Here’s a closer look at the three component’s we’ll be styling u...


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Make this spiral globe ornament please!

Ah the winter season is a time when we can slow down and appreciate the things that really matter. A chance to take stock of lasting joy. Clearly I’m talking about the opportunity to print out this paper craft ornament template, cut out the component globe gore panels, and assemble them into a simple treasure.

So blow some dust off the printers, push some card-stock...


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