Creating Maps and Visualisations with ArcGIS
Strictly by pre-registration only
What is this course about?
This course teaches ArcGIS Pro techniques to create and share a variety of professional-quality information products including print maps, web maps, 3D scenes, animations, and charts.
This course is for: cartographers and GIS analysts, specialists, mapping technicians, and others who need to produce maps using ArcGIS software.
Course details
Price
SGD960.00
Location
Singapore
Duration
2 days
Level
Intermediate
Category
ArcGIS Pro Workflows
Are there any prerequisites?
- Completion of ArcGIS Pro: Essential Workflows or Migrating from ArcMap to ArcGIS Pro or equivalent knowledge.
What skills will I learn?
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Plan a cartographic project
- Choose appropriate data to support cartographic needs
- Create appropriate symbology, map elements, and layout designs for a given map project
- Create labels and annotation that are easy to read by the map's intended audience
- Produce effective maps for print and web delivery
What can I expect?
- Course topics
Cartographic planning process
- Cartographic workflow
- Defining map purpose, audience, and specifications
Evaluating data
- Data considerations
- Evaluating geometry and attributes
- Evaluating scale
- Choosing a coordinate system
Cartographic design principles
- Design considerations for printed and web maps
- Visual weight, contrast, and figure ground
- Understanding effective use of color
- Designing color schemes and symbols
Advanced symbology techniques
- Symbol-level drawing for advanced cartographic effects
- Cartographic representations
- Symbology considerations for map services
Map text
- Text placement guidelines for point, line, and polygon features
- Type basics for cartography
- Text-editing workflow
- Creating labels with Maplex
- Working with annotation
Designing a map for the web
- Design and performance considerations
- Best practices
- Types of map services
- Specifying the tiling scheme
- Analysing a map document
- Previewing and publishing map services
Creating maps for print
- Design considerations
- Coordinate system considerations
- Cached and dynamic map services
Creating map layouts and map series
- Creating a balanced map layout
- Map elements
- Dynamic text
- Creating a map series using data driven pages
- Exporting a map series to a PDF document