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These are some of the questions we have received on Ask a Cartographer and our answers. Feel free to comment on our answers. Please remember to be considerate when posting comments.
- JPEG Base Map
- Aggregating while keeping attribute
- Data Frame coordinate system different from data projection
- Picture Callouts
- Creating flow arrows sized by quantity in the directions they are going from a point feature
- How to Export high quality maps for printing?
- Working with River Labels - specify maximum of bend
- Link Layout Text to a Database (not a Geodatabase)
- Can I create an override for a feature class to make not come through a transparency on a layer?
- How do you make a velocity map in ArcGIS?
- Proportional half-disks
- Highlighting a route
- Tunnel network representation
- Coloring a hillshade as exactly same as ARCGISONLINE shaded relief map?
- Importing external ColorRamp and implementing the styles
- How to get good Google or ArcGIS Online Road Linework?
- needed style sets from ArcGIS9.0 are not able to be used in ArcGIS9.2
- Creating fixed length lollipops
- rectangle text tool with rotated text
- rotate a scalebar
- Townships and Ranges
- The First Step?
- Shapefiles do not overlay exactly on ArcGIS World Physical Map / Google Earth / World Wind
- customized symbols to multiple attributes point feature class, saving symbology ArcMap 9.3
- Shade edges of polygons -- 'old map' style
The ability to "Ask a Cartographer" has been disabled while we upgrade our website.
However, the archives will remain available for your reference.
These are some of the questions we have received on Ask a Cartographer and our answers. Feel free to comment on our answers. Please remember to be considerate when posting comments.
- JPEG Base Map
- Aggregating while keeping attribute
- Data Frame coordinate system different from data projection
- Picture Callouts
- Creating flow arrows sized by quantity in the directions they are going from a point feature
- How to Export high quality maps for printing?
- Working with River Labels - specify maximum of bend
- Link Layout Text to a Database (not a Geodatabase)
- Can I create an override for a feature class to make not come through a transparency on a layer?
- How do you make a velocity map in ArcGIS?
- Proportional half-disks
- Highlighting a route
- Tunnel network representation
- Coloring a hillshade as exactly same as ARCGISONLINE shaded relief map?
- Importing external ColorRamp and implementing the styles
- How to get good Google or ArcGIS Online Road Linework?
- needed style sets from ArcGIS9.0 are not able to be used in ArcGIS9.2
- Creating fixed length lollipops
- rectangle text tool with rotated text
- rotate a scalebar
- Townships and Ranges
- The First Step?
- Shapefiles do not overlay exactly on ArcGIS World Physical Map / Google Earth / World Wind
- customized symbols to multiple attributes point feature class, saving symbology ArcMap 9.3
- Shade edges of polygons -- 'old map' style
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