1. Designing a map layout Purpose of map Audience Map elements

2. Contents of a map Primary - main theme or actual subject Secondary - grid - graticules - latitude / longitude Supportive - title - scale - legend - location diagram - projection

3. other essential elements: dates of survey/compilation source north arrow surveyor/producer information on adjacent sheets Contents of a map

4. Creating a map layout Define the layout page Add layout frames and set their properties Add graphics Create layout templates Print the layout

5. Defining the layout page Size Orientation Margins Grid Zooming in and out on the layout page

6. Defining frames View Legend Scale bar North Arrow Chart Table Picture -each component in the layout has its own corresponding frame - add components using the Frame Tool

7. Creating a frame Choose one of the Frame tools Draw a rectangle for the frame on the layout page Layout1 Start End Set the properties for the frame

8. View Frames Contains the view on the layout page You can place any number of view frams in the layout Move and resize frames Double click inside the view frame to display View Frame properties

9. Setting view frame properties

10. Automatic (view scales to width of view frame) Scaling the view frame

11. Preserve view scale Scaling the view frame

12. User specified scale

13. View frame extent Fill view frame Clip to view

14. Redrawing the layout Display Always Display When Active Layout 1 Bicycle course

15. Setting legend frame properties

16. 20 3 2 Setting scale bar frame properties

17. North Arrow frame North arrows are contained within frames in the layout. When you create a north arrow frame you select a style of north arrow to place on the layout. You can also choose an angle (in degrees) that the north arrow should be rotated.

18. Text and other graphics Use the drawing tool to add graphics such as neatlines, boxes, and other shapes Add text for titles and other descriptive information

19. Working with map elements Select Move Resize Group Ungroup Align

20. Layout template Save any layout as a layout template Use the layout design as the basis for other layouts Use EMPTY frames (views, tables, etc.) for the different map components When the layout template is used, any view/table/etc. can be assigned to the empty frame

21. Creating a layout template Choose a layout - Layout\use template -choose the desired template

22. Save layouts as template Layout\store as template type a name for your template select an icon, OK Your new template will be added in the template manager