Forum: Cartography

Hey guys! I need some help with ArcGIS 10.1 . I study Geology and Geoinformatics and this semester we started learning ArcGIS. I missed a lot of the...

Hello all, I am currently looking up ways, or to be more specific, the quickest way to establish RGB values or any other colour value of colours...

I want to use a callout text on my map but the callout background has only 2 options: rectangular or rounded rectangular. I want some other shapes...

Hi everyone, I have got a new project which needs to be done in ED50 above 62N. I have previously worked on projects South of 62N with no...

I am attempting to create some nautical maps for personal use by importing S-57 cells into ArcGIS as group layers. While I am able to see all of the...

I've search around and I have no clue why this is happening. I'm using some 3D marker symbols on a map of a lake we run. On screen all of the icons...

I have polygons that I need to label. The expression it looks something like &vbnewline& However in the comment I have two values (A and B). I...

I found some colour ramps in at the ESRI Mapping Centre. I've downloaded them but I'm not sure where or how to add them to arcmap. ...

Is there function available to set the size of a text or title box to not exceed a preset width? The project consists of using title and text boxes...

Hi- I'm trying to extract the coastline from a series of historic (hand drawn!) maps (I got the idea from NOAA). The maps are all scanned,...

Hi! as always Esri support is hard to use so I am just doing my best to put this question where it belongs. Thanks for your patience. Anyhow.....I...

I am trying to analyze temporal change in bird density in response to land-use attributes. I have created a base grid index feature to join both my...

hello.. I am new to arc gis.. i have a map with building included. now i want to extract the coordinates from that map... ie digitalise it. can...

Hi everyone, I have a dataset that contains polygons over a large area with individual attribute values assigned to each, I want to: - overlay...

I am looking to create a cartographic grid in the Provisional South American Datum 1956 co-ordinate system. In the Grids and Graticules toolset...

I have a polygon table with 3 fields - cats, dogs, dangerous dogs I need to present this as three symbols: cats as a 45 degree hatch dogs as a...

Good Afternoon Everyone. Currently I am converting a large amount of maps from 8.5 by 11 (normal size) to 11 by 17 large size. Whenever I change...

Good Afternoon I'm currently working with an city engineering map that displays numerous different utilities in a PDF layer format. That means that...

Hello, I have a bunch of small picture elements in data view that I'm trying to arrange, and they keep snapping to something (grid? I have no idea...

Hi, I need to create xy points to represent certain facilities. The data I have to create these points are the following: Address data for the...

Hi, I have written a standalone application that will export Shape files but I need some help with the prj files. How can I write custom...

Hello All, I have a large streetCL layer with many curved features. I would like to create an annotation layer that will use the follow feature...

I've been working with a map that was previously created, and there is remanence of a lake label. It is not an annotation because I cannot delete...

HI- I have an excel document of a bunch of known detections of a certain frog species in a bunch of wetlands. Each detection has a lat long...

Hello, I am using ArcGIS 10.1, and I have a polygon layer that is colour-coded to a specific style file based on a column (numeric codes) in the...

I have a polyline that represents a section of a road in his attributes Km established a field of initial and final Km doer of locating a given Km...

Hello, I am currently working with a set of geocoded locations across the United States. I'd like to do some spatial analysis, and display some...

Hello everybody, I have a SDE dataset containing some 200.000 points. When I display them in full extent in ArcMap with a certain character marker...

Cross-posting the discussion of line callout styles at http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/82064-Line-callout-styles

Good Afternoon, I need help with labeling the Property Parcels. For the Parcel shapefile, I have two columns in the attributes table, NAME and...

I have two roadway shapefiles of Vegas. But they do not overlap. One of the file has a certain shift from its exact location. Can anyone help me how...