So in this demo, we're gonna work with creating effective cartographic layouts,
composing a map that you might want to drop into a publication or
research paper, or a PowerPoint presentation.
So, there's no official data, really, for this demo.
I've given you some example files in here that you may want to
play around with a little bit.
And I'm just going to use these for creating the map documents in here.
So this is what's actually in that demo nine folder.
It's just a few different shaped files that are from some of the later demos but
are useful in kind of different ways of visualizing point line, polygon,
and raster data in an effective composition.
So once you've started up ArcMap, just go ahead and start up a blank map as usual.
You can add in those data.
You can add in really anything that you might really want to.
I'm just gonna go ahead and bring in the Landsat image and the soils for now.
Actually I'm going to bring in everything and
we can just turn them off as we need to.
So a lot of this is stuff we haven't dealt with
if you're following along sequentially.
It's in some of the more advanced sections.
Where we might deal with 3D rendering.
That's where the castles are from.
lansat is an early satellite imagery one.
The DEM is from topography and
the drainage pass are from hydrological modeling.
But let's go ahead and just turn off everything but the soils for the moment.
So to date we've been working entirely in what's called the data view of ARC GIS.
There's also a layout view.
And this is sort of like a dumbed down,
simplified version of something like Illustrator that lets you do page layouts,
or create that map in a little bit more official of a way.
So it's sort of hidden down here, we have the data view and
the layout view buttons so, you can click on it there.
And you'll notice that it brings up what looks like a page preview.
You can also get to it in View > Layout View as well.
So, we have a new series of navigation tools, zooming in, zooming out, panning.
And these are now the default for zooming in and
out of the page versus zooming in and out on the data.
So, as I zoom in,
In contrast to when I do it on the map the width of these polygons stays the same.
It actually gets bigger, I'm not really zooming in on the data so
much as I'm zooming in on the preview of this page as I would print it out.
So I can begin to resize my map document on the page.
I can use my original tools they're just not the default anymore.
If I wanted to say zoom in in a little bit more detail here.
If you wanna resize things it's always good to use the select elements.
And just simply zooming around.
I can always zoom to my layer.
So I'm gonna go ahead and just go into my symbology tab and
I'm gonna color these things by soil code.
So I've now gotten something that looks a little bit more like a regular map,
looks like a soil map.
But there's a few things that I need on this map to make it an official
thing that I might wanna export.
The first of these is a scale bar.
Now, this is not a complicated thing to find you simply when in the layout view,
you go to insert scale bar and
this will bring up a whole slew of different scale bars that you can choose.
I tend to use this one a lot but you're welcome to experiment around with any of
the different ones that are in here.
If you chose properties you get a few different other things you can set,
most important here are the number of divisions and subdivisions whether or
not it shows one before zero.
What happens when you resize it?
Does it affect the division value or does it affect the number of divisions?
The units as well.
Encourage you to work in kilometers versus miles.
I don't why that's the default on a lot of these but it is.
And then you can also do things like set some colors and
how many, how often things are labeled.
I find it easiest to go ahead and just hit okay with the default go in and
once you've put it on there it's a lot easier to go look at it, zoom in and
say oh that oh, looks kind of silly to have all these extra subdivisions in here.
And it might be nice if this was just one kilometer.
So, I'm gonna go in and just make that the way it is.
So, I'm gonna take out some of those subdivisions.
I'm gonna adjust the number of divisions.
So, I'm gonna lose my number divisions and
I want the division value to be one kilometer.
I'm gonna end, hit Apply, see what that looks like.
Okay, I might wanna go over to my labels here.
Well, I don't really care about the first midpoint being labeled, so
I just wanna do my divisions and that will take that out.
So, now when I resize it, it just cuts down the number of them.
It's a little bit more effective of a way of putting that scale bar in there.
Now I can also do my north arrow.
This is something that's pretty important to have, so
I can just go to simply insert north arrow.
There's not a lot of things that have to be said here but
I encourage you to choose whichever one in here you might want.
There are a lot of very, very fanciful ones.
I'm gonna do kind of a classic.
And I can sort of resize it as I will.
Now I can also insert my legend.
This is very important with any sort of vector data like this where I
don't intrinsically know what those colors mean.
So I can do that by Insert Legend.
Now it's first gonna ask me what map layers I wanna have in the legend.
In this case, I don't need anything other than the soils.
It's defaulting to whatever is visible.
It's gonna ask me how many column I want in my legend.
I have a feeling that I'm probably gonna need more than one column.
So I'm gonna go ahead and set three or four columns here.
You can give it a title, I don't find the titles to be particularly useful so
I usually just turn it off.
If you wanted to set the border to give it a nice border around it,
maybe give it a slightly different background color.
And if you want any sort of shadow on it, you can set these in here.
This simply go okay through the rest of this and now, we've got a nice,
The large Legend that we can begin to fit onto our map.
Now, in this case, there's a couple things I might want to do in here as well.
First off, it's a little repetitive to have soils Notre Dame and soil code.
If I wanna change what these are called, I can just simply do it here.
So I wanna take out that internal underscore.
Now it just simply says soil code.
I can go back into my layer properties and
turn off all other values cuz they're not important.
And if I really want to I can go into here,
double click on it, go over to Items.
Go onto the Items here, choose Properties and
I can turn it on General so that I don't see the layer name anymore.
That'll take out that soil notre dame so it just says soil code.
It displays it as I'd like there.
So there's lots of other properties that you can set,
and I encourage you to play around with those as you will.
I can also put in a title if I want to, just by inserting title
just gonna call this NotreDameSoil Map.
Now there's a glitch in ArcGIS that's been around for a pretty long time.
I'm just moving some tool bars around so I can see this, for a pretty long time.
If I wanted to go try to edit this afterwards, it's gonna come in like this.
All I have to do is just retype it.
And now I can set it Much more effectively.
So if I wanted to set my type or anything like that,
I can actually turn on my drawing tool bar if I right-click up here and choose draw.
Now I can begin.
This, I like to dock this at the bottom for some reason.
Now I can begin to set my font sizes,
how big it is, I can do all sorts of other drawing on there if I want to.
So that's some of the basics of how you might render a vector map like this.
We can also do a lot of arranging in here.
So if I wanted to make very, very sure that this sort
of was centered off of the map, I can simply select both of them.
Right-click and then I have the ability to align or distribute.
In this case I had already done a pretty good job of it.
But let's say I wanted to do all three of them.
Sorry that did not have my button held up.
So all three of them selected, I could do my align to center.
See it moved up there a little bit.
I can also do things like inserting grid marks, so
showing us where we are in the world, especially for
something like this where it might not be immediately clear.
And I do that in my layers up here.
So if I double-click on Layers,
as opposed to the individual layers, I can go over to Grids choose new grid.
And then it's gonna ask me if I want to do a gradical, so, degrees,
minutes, seconds, or whether I want to do a measured grid,
where it divides it up into like UTM, or reference as well.
You can do multiple ones.
Usually, it's relatively common to have a gradical and a measured grid on there so,
a projected system and a geographic system.
I'm just gonna do a gradical for the moment, so
just go ahead and hit OK, or Next.
And this is the case, even if our map is in UTM, we
can still create this gradical on there, it's smart enough to do it on the fly.
So it's gonna ask me whether I wanna do around the outside and labels, and
then it's gonna say place parallels every how often.
So, one degree, one minute, or say, 30 seconds.
We're zoomed in really far, so I'm gonna choose 30 seconds here.
And we'll see how it looks.
It's going to ask me a little bit about the division types I wanna use.
I'm just going to leave the defaults for the moment.
And go ahead and hit, finish and then OK.
So maybe every 30 seconds was a little bit too frequent in here.
But if you zoom in on it, you can begin to see that it's labeled them,
it has the crosses on there and it's labeled every other one.
So let's go ahead and just go back in.
Rather than doing it all over again I can just choose properties with it selected.
And I'm gonna to Intervals and I'm gonna change this to
every two minutes, as opposed to every 30 seconds.
So, I just hit a bunch of OKs.
And that's a little bit more of what you might wanna have on there.
Now you're welcome to set up the other section as well,
if you wanted to set up a projected one, it's quite easy to do.
Now if you wanted to add a table or anything, you can do that fairly easily.
If we wanted to add the soil table for some reason, we could go through and
choose, Add Table to Layout.
It's now going to appear over here.
We can sort of modify it if we want it to.
Additionally I'm just gonna delete that because it's not super
useful at the moment.
But if you had say an attribute table that had say the total area for
each one, you could add that on there as well.
We can also add in any graphs that we might create.
So, if I had created like we did with topography before.
So I'm just gonna turn the DEM on.
Now, if you haven't seen this before just bare with me that
I'm just turning on my 3D analyst toolbar,
which also means I have to turn on my 3D analyst tools,
and I'm just gonna create an interpolated line.
And then use that to create a profile graph.
I could very easily just right click on the title up here and
add to layout as well.
So now I would have my chart on there and I could put it sort of wherever I wanted.
So if I didn't need a legend in there, I could have sort of a profile graph.
And I could even do it,
I could change that interpolated line to be something a little bit bigger.
So if I wanted to make that line be a nice bright red and
that line to be just a little bit thicker.
You can just double click on it.
And it's not showing me where that profile graph is.
I might want to change my title, as well,
to be Notre Dame topography or something like that.
So that's a little bit about how you create some of these things.
Just closing down my extra windows here.
But I do want to show you just how to export it, so
that you would have this in sort of permanent way as well.
The easiest thing to do is to go up info File > Export Map.
That's gonna give you a few different options.
You have lots of different types you can save it as.
JPEGs, TIFFs, PNGs, these are all good for sort
of anything you may want to drop it into a presentation, or something like that.
you can clip it to just the extent that you have so you don't get the full page.
You could export it as a illustrative file or a SVG these
are vector based forms that you can begin to edit them a little bit more actively in
something like illustrator or another sort of vector graphics program.
So there's lots of different ways to export your files in a way
that becomes useful for your publications or your presentations.
I have a little bit more on when you might want to use some of these different types.
And what particular specifics of say different formats you might
want it export in for different audiences in the demo notes.
So again as always please feel free to email me with any questions or
to contact us however it's listed in your version of the course.
Thanks a lot and have a good day.