This is a map of Flagler County, Florida, U.S.A. What do you think?
Wow! What a lab project this was and I still have to find and prepare my raster map. Oh boy!
Things I learned:
- Do not reorganize your H drive while still creating maps. This results in map drawing errors as ArcMap cannot locate the original link. I started over many, many, too many times as a result to trying to get my files organized. Also on this topic, the H drive should be well organized and labeled for each lesson. I wanted to insert files from previous lessons and spent quite a bit if time navigating the R drive to locate what I needed to copy again.
- Arc Catalog is a great tool! After I lost my links on my first, second and third maps I decided to make sure my files were not corrupt and all located in the same place, so I deleted all the unzipped, reprojected and clipped files I had used to date. I then unzipped again (into my nicely organized file) and used Arc Catalog to reproject and clip before I even dumped the files into ArcMap. What a time saver!!
- I finally figured out the fixed scale option which eased quite a bit of my frustration and I exported as a .png file at a 125 resolution. I don't know what any of that means but it was suggested and seems to have increased my map size considerably.
- I learned that I have forgotten how to add the little red box (area of detail) so I added a neat line and reduced the box size as small as I could.
- I wanted to move some of the icons off the coastal areas so they did appear over the county boundary but was not sure how to accomplish this.
- Also, I could not figure out how to add the ocean to the map.
Please let me know what you think! I appreciate any feedback!
Sue
2 comments:
Hi Sue, All is not lost if you move layers and get the red ! in your .mxd. Go to layer properties>source then select set data source. You can navigate to the new location for the layers. It also keeps all of you layer properties intact.
Hi Sue,
Nice job on the layouts but I'm confused about the positions of your rasters. They seem to be on top of your layers and no adjacent to each other like the lab stated. As for the oceans, an easy way to do this is to add all the counties for Florida, turn them solid white with no outline and change the background of your dataframe to blue. Hope this helps!
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