- [Instructor] Hi, and welcome back to the lecture.
In part two, we'll explore different techniques
for creating map series in ArcGIS.
We'll return to the already familiar Mad River Valley
and look at two different approaches for mapping data.
I'll try to sprinkle in a few more tips and tricks
for working with map layouts along the way.
So here we are back in the Mad River Valley,
I've got my three town boundaries outlined in blue.
I've got some parcel data,
the result of a view shed analysis,
and some points of interest.
I'd like to create a map series at the town level
for the three towns of the Mad River Valley.
Let's switch over to my map layout
that I've already inserted into the project.
First things first I'd like to create some guides
to help me manage my page real estate.
Also it guides in both directions,
offset from the edge by one inch.
There we go.
That should be helpful
when we're trying to arrange the different map elements.
Back here on the insert ribbon
I need to add a map frame into my map layout
and so I'll do that here.
Looks like it's a bit off center,
that's no surprise.
We can zoom right into that town level if we would like.
Now we're not going to use the base map,
so I'll turn that off for now.
Let's add a few other map details.
We'll put our north arrow, and a scale bar
into the map pane, and let's also add our legend.
Looks like we've got some work to do there.
But at this point let's create our map series.
If we return to the layout ribbon
we can choose from the map series dropdown.
In this case, we'll use spatial
because that's going to be defined by some data
that we have already in the map layout.
We could use bookmarks, but because it's great out here
that indicates we don't have any bookmarks in our project.
When I click the spatial option,
that opens the layout properties tab,
and it goes to the map series section.
Now you have your choice of the map frames,
I'm gonna use the map frame that we just created
and then it's up to you to decide which layer
will define the individual pages of the map series.
As I mentioned before
we're going to use the town boundaries
and we'll sort based on that town name.
Down in the map extent options,
we can control the way that we want the map to be displayed
for the individual pages.
Let's just choose the best fit to the extent
and let's clip to the index feature.
In this case that will be the town boundaries.
All right well that's it.
I click okay, and our map series has been created.
We see over in the contents pane,
we've got a map for Faytson,
a map for Waitsfield and a map for Warren.
Notice that the map elements are the same for all three.
I've zoomed in on the map elements
and let's do just a little bit of clean up here.
Okay, so we've got a few challenges with this legend.
There's quite a bit of content
and not a whole lot of space to store it.
So let's see what we can do.
First, notice that when you select an individual layer
in the legend, you get the properties
and the ability to format that specific layer
within the legend.
Let's indicate that we want to see the name here
and keep our label in place.
Now let's also do that for our points of interest
so that we have the same size font
for each of those two things.
Notice also that we've got our matter of Valley towns
and our matter of Valley parcels included in here as well.
Let's do a couple of other things
to improve the labeling here.
(instructor typing on keyboard)
Looks like we've got one other fix to make with our data,
and we're looking almost pretty good here.
The last thing we'll do, is make the size of the labels
the same.
So if I have my points of interest selected,
I can look at that, size of the labels is 11
but what about for that layer name?
That's 16.
If I look at the matter of Valley towns,
those labels are also 11.
So I'm gonna make the parcel boundaries
and the town labels a little bit bigger.
There we go, okay.
Let's zoom out a little bit,
and now we can position our legend
here underneath the map frame.
Okay. Well, we could experiment a lot more with that
but I think that's good for now.
Let's take a look at one other example
of the way that we could create a map series.
This time, instead of using the town boundaries,
we'll create our own boundaries.
Okay first things first, I'm gonna turn that map series off
and I'll just close that layout because we're done using it.
Now I'll come over to the geo processing,
you remember our old friend fishnet
that we ran a few weeks back.
I'm gonna create another fishnet this time 3000 by 3000
meter boxes that we'll use.
Next, I will select by location to select only those boxes
that intersect the matter of Valley towns
and from there, I'll create a new data set
that we can use to define our map series.
Okay, one more thing to do
and we were ready to create our maps series.
I'm going to add another attribute,
I'll call it map number.
It can be a short since we don't have that many
and we'll assign that the value of the object ID.
Okay, from here, we've come over to our map layout,
we need to insert our map frame
just like we did the last time
and now we're ready to create our map series.
Once again, it will be spatial.,
we'll set the map number as the name field
and as the sort field.
Then we click okay.
See we should probably turn some data off here,
we've got our map series with 45 different maps.
Okay, let's look at just a couple of other things here.
I'm gonna turn on the base map.
Now remember when you have the base map on
that you also get this labeling at the bottom corner
and sometimes that can overlap with the features
that you're trying to map.
That's not the case on the current page that we're on
but I'm sure there's other pages
that are completely full with data.
In this case, that creates an overlap
that might make it hard to interpret the data.
These are what's known as service credits
and then we can change them by using the dynamic text option
in the map layout.
So if I click on the service layer credits
from that list of options,
I can choose to put that text anywhere.
Then once I create that,
we see that it disappears off of the map layout.
One other thing that we can use the dynamic text for,
is within the map series.
The page name, the page number, the page within count,
all of these are options that we can include
as descriptors on the map series.
Of course, you can go into the properties
and change the text symbol as you see fit.
Okay, well, like always lots more to do with map series
and map layouts, but hopefully you found these tips
and tricks helpful for your next mapping project.