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Mapping with ArcGIS Pro

You're reading from Mapping with ArcGIS Pro Design accurate and user-friendly maps to share the story of your data

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788298001

Length 266 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

ArcGIS

Concepts

Design

Authors (2):

Amy Rock

Ryan Malhoski

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

1. How Maps Get Made FREE CHAPTER

2. Getting Started in ArcGIS Pro

3. Organizing the Page Structure

4. Typographic Principles

5. Picking Colors with Confidence

6. All Maps Are Approximations of Reality

7. Understanding and Choosing Projections

8. Clean Symbology and Uncluttered Maps

9. Getting Started with ArcGIS Online

10. Leveraging Esri Smart Mapping

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ArcGIS Online overview

As mentioned at the beginning of this chapter, ArcGIS Online is a web GIS that is housed in the cloud. ArcGIS Online is a GIS ecosystem that houses many organizations. In the context of ArcGIS Online, an organization is a paid membership group. While a lot of ArcGIS Online is free and open to anyone, you will need an account that is a member of an organization with the right level, role, and privilege to create and edit GIS data and apps. Accounts, organizations, levels, roles, and privileges can be a bit confusing to someone who hasn't used ArcGIS Online before; you will find quick summaries of each as follows.

Accounts

Everything you do in ArcGIS Online is tied to your account. Your account carries around your identity in the ArcGIS Online ecosystem, and depending on the account type and privileges given to your account, your experience will be different.

Public account

If you don't have a paid organizational account, you can still create a free account with ArcGIS Online...

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Authors (2)

Amy Rock

Amy Rock

Dr. Amy Rock is a community geographer and an avid proponent of community leadership. Her research and projects include using GIS to examine economic relationships, economic accessibility, public participation in the federal block grant process, and commercial government GIS projects. She is currently teaching on the award-winning cartography program at Humboldt State University, and she is a director of their Online Geospatial Certificate Program.

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Ryan Malhoski

Ryan Malhoski

Ryan Malhoski is a GIS developer with over 10 years of GIS experience. He has a bachelor's degree in GIS and urban planning from Sacramento State University. He is currently a GIS developer for the City of Sacramento in the enterprise applications division. He spent over 6 years working for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as a geographer, where he was the GIS lead and project manager for multiple civil works and military projects. Ryan volunteers for Code for Sacramento, a brigade of Code for America, where he has volunteered for 2 years and just recently became Captain of the brigade.

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