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Cartographic techniques for symbolizing routing data [closed]
Some common problems with displaying routes created from street data, such as bus routes, include:
Routes may overlap themselves, such as when a route takes the same road in opposite directions
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Using directional shading on boundaries for cartographic effect in ArcGIS Desktop?
The attached screenshot of a National Geographic map shows some beautiful directional shading of boundaries. I'm trying to reproduce this sort of shading for a burn perimeter map, as I want to ...
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Representing several points with same coordinates on map using ArcGIS Desktop? [duplicate]
I'm working on Arcgis 10.
I have a point shapefile representing events with several points having coinciding coordinates (They have the same coordinates). For representing them in a dynamic way, I ...
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Removing features whose labels are not displayed?
Using ArcMap 10.0, I am working on a map that shows many villages. Each village has a name attribute that I want to use for a label, but in some areas there are so many villages that not all can be ...
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Coloring thousands of polygons so each is distinct from its neighbors?
I am using ArcGIS 10, and I have layers of the 2010 Census blocks, block groups, and tracts. There are thousands of polygons in these layers.
I want to color them so that each is distinct from its ...
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How to present three spatial variables in one map? [closed]
I want to assign 3 category of variables in a single map.
In other words, I have to produce a cartographic visualization of the damage including a legend listing:
damaged surface area in the ...
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Retain ESRI symbology in Mapinfo TAB
Is there anyway to retain/easily transfer symbology from ESRI to Mapinfo? The only process I found was posted in 2010 - https://groups.google.com/group/mapinfo-l/browse_thread/thread/883223ff4ae56809 ...
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Halo use background color
As you see on the attached image, I labelled contour lines on the map (in meters). Which function will allow the "halo" to take the background color of the map?
On the image, the halo is greenish ...
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Is there an advanced way to label in ArcMap so that the label will not be dropped?
Is there an advanced way to label in ArcMap so that the label will not be dropped?
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Overlapping lines representation
Cartography question.
I do have administrative boundries for counties in polygon FC. What tool do I use to prioritise display of features. In example, when lines overlap- I want to show only 1 dashed ...
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