1. Designing Maps GTECH361 Lecture 14

2. Cartographic Design Principles Audience and purpose Size, scale, and media Visual balance

3. Audience and Purpose

4. Size, Scale and Media

5. Visual Balance

6. Elements of a Map Map body Legend Title Scale North arrow (inset map)

8. Other Elements of a Map Source of data Map projection Author Date Neatline Graphs, tables, images, informative text..leading towards a poster

9. Map Templates

10. Layer Transparency

11. Labels and Annotation..more later today

12. Reference System Graticule ºN/S, ºE/W Measured grid X, Y Reference grid 12B or 14G

13. Map Layout Templates again

14. Working With Labels Types Priorities Feature weight Scale Map Extent Label classes Label expressions

15. Point Labels Labels for the cities are offset both vertically and horizontally to draw at the upper left of the features

16. Line Labels

17. Polygon Labels

18. Label Priorities Default Point > Line > Polygon Feature label weights

19. Scale Dependency

20. Labels and Map Extent Label Position Labels Scale Labels Affected Locked labelsStaticYesIn 'locked' extent Dynamic labels and reference scale DynamicYesIn data frame

21. Non-uniform Labels Label classes

22. Label Expressions VBScript or JavaScript [NAME] & vbNewLine & [AREA] & " Sq Km“

23. Annotations Super-Labels Can be stored in their own geodatabase class

24. Importing Annotations From labels From Arc/Info coverage annotation Similar to address matching Creates tables of unplaced annotations Can be individually placed and edited

25. Annotation Groups

26. Descriptive Text in ArcGIS