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Mapping Center is about the use of ArcGIS in the graphic delivery of geographic information. Its goal is to help you make great looking maps by using the same cartographic concepts and techniques that professional cartographers use.

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Updated March 27, 2008

Check out the presentation by Dr. A. Jon Kimerling, "Dotting the Dot Map, Revisted" on the Other Resources page. This intriguing presentation describes an alternative to dot placement that is more in keeping with how cartographers made dot maps by hand. Examples at the end of the presentation show how exclusion and inclusion layers can be used to improve dot placement using ArcGIS.

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This map was created to help attendees at the 26th annual ESRI International Users Conference find a place to eat lunch and get a special discount.