Map Typography – Titles
An easily overlooked part of building maps is typography. I’ll continue a series of articles that will help you choose and place type on your maps (look for “Map Typography” in the article title). This time I’ll cover some basics and pointers in creating nice, effective titles and title blocks in this article. Making typeface […]
Anatomy of an Executive Summary
I love InDesign. With some creativity, you can do some really cool things with InDesign. You think DS Mapbook or Map Logic Layout Manager are good? InDesign blows them away. But when you combine InDesign, ESRI ArcMap, Illustrator, Excel, Python, ArcCatalog, Word and Photoshop you get something exciting. Look out for the Anatomy of the […]
Custom Marker Symbols in ArcMap
ArcMap is shipped with hundreds of symbols in the form of typefaces. You may be happy using the symbols provided by ESRI. If you’d like to create and use your own symbol, one way you can do so is using Adobe Illustrator and ArcMap. I’m going to start in Illustrator, in these examples I will […]
