Creating Maps and Visualisations with ArcGIS
Strictly by pre-registration only
What is this course about?
Learn fundamental cartographic design principles and a standard workflow to produce print and online maps tailored to their purpose, medium, and intended audience. 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.
Course details
Location
Shah Alam
Duration
3 days
Level
Intermediate
Category
ArcGIS Pro Workflows
Are there any prerequisites?
- Completion of ArcGIS Pro: Essential Workflows or Migrating ArcMap to ArcGIS Pro or equivalent knowledge is required.
What skills will I learn?
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Prepare data for a mapping project.
- Design map elements that are appropriate for your data, audience, map purpose and delivery medium.
- Apply 2D and 3D cartographic best practices to create and share print maps, web maps and 3D scenes.
- Create animations to dynamically visualise data and change over time.
What can I expect?
- Course topics
Introduction to designing maps and visualisations
- Why create maps?
- Audience and purpose
- ArcGIS information products
- Design considerations
- The cartographic workflow
- Cartographic workflow: Planning
Data for information products
- Cartographic workflow: Data
- Evaluating spatial data
- Levels of measurement
- Accuracy and precision
- Sources of error
- Scale and resolution
- Coordinate systems
- Generalisation techniques
Symbolising data
- Cartographic workflow: Symbology
- Components of color
- Visual variables
- Designing symbols
- Symbolising by attribute
- Visualising data ranges
- Color schemes
- Figure-ground organisation
- Reference and thematic maps
Working with map text
- Cartographic workflow: Symbology – Text
- Working with labels and annotation
- Text placement
- Using text to create visual hierarchy
- Visual variables for text symbols
- Type basics for cartography
Print maps layouts
- Cartographic workflow: Layout and output
- Creating a pattern of reading
- Map elements
- Map description
- Map scale
- Map orientation
- Visual balance and hierarchy in print maps
Design considerations for web maps
- Web maps
- Web maps versus print maps
- Audience and purpose
- Devices and software
- Cartography and user experience
- Predominance web maps
Publishing web maps for multiple devices
- Projections in web maps
- Map scales and symbol sizes
- Tile layers
- Web map symbology
- Configuring pop-ups
Creating 3D scenes
- Functional surfaces
- Why use 3D?
- Web scenes
- Global and local 3D scenes
- Scene styles
- Elements of a 3D scene
- Surfaces
- Features
- 3D text and labelling
- Scene surrounds and effects
- Challenges with 3D
Visualising data using charts
- When to use charts, maps or both
- Why use charts?
- Using charts in information products
- Visualise data using charts
- Types of charts
Animations
- Types of animation in ArcGIS
- Animation components
- What makes an animation effective?
- Dynamic visual variables