Ask a Cartographer has, in the past, provided solutions to your questions about particular mapping challenges. We are disabling the ability to send us your questions while we upgrade our web site. In the meantime, please refer to the online help, the Esri blogs, the Esri forums, and Esri Technical Support for help with any issues that arise.
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.
- Joining separate lines
- Cannot scale the size of Anno for different map scales
- Legend colors and Definition queries
- Control Placement of Copy/Pasted Annotation
- Small (5-6pt font)
- Labeling 2 questions
- Results..Ref:Concave Hull
- CARTOGRAPHIC SYMBOLS
- Trying to use pie charts symbology.
- Point symbolization
- Label from multiple fields if there is space, change label size between fields - maplex
- Textbox linked to field attributes
- Proper Citation of feature classes
- Custom Fonts-centering glyphs
- Legend label different from map label without manual modification
- Concave Hull
- Multi Pages Map document export to pdf
- Download North Arrows?
- Conflicting polygon data (overlapping)
- Scrubland Representation Pattern
- Physiographic Regions of Canada
- import image
- true live 3d mapping
- Map Package Compatibility
- JOIN tables
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.
- Joining separate lines
- Cannot scale the size of Anno for different map scales
- Legend colors and Definition queries
- Control Placement of Copy/Pasted Annotation
- Small (5-6pt font)
- Labeling 2 questions
- Results..Ref:Concave Hull
- CARTOGRAPHIC SYMBOLS
- Trying to use pie charts symbology.
- Point symbolization
- Label from multiple fields if there is space, change label size between fields - maplex
- Textbox linked to field attributes
- Proper Citation of feature classes
- Custom Fonts-centering glyphs
- Legend label different from map label without manual modification
- Concave Hull
- Multi Pages Map document export to pdf
- Download North Arrows?
- Conflicting polygon data (overlapping)
- Scrubland Representation Pattern
- Physiographic Regions of Canada
- import image
- true live 3d mapping
- Map Package Compatibility
- JOIN tables
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