Inspired by John Nelson’s work in the Cartography team at ESRI I wanted to create a paper cut out effect for the bathymetry of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea using ArcGIS Pro 2.2. The effects developed by the ESRI Cartography team really does give that impression of a paper cut Read more…
The web map of the World Port Index Twenty-Fifth Edition as published by Geospatial Geoscience is now available on ESRI’s Living Atlas. The Twenty-Fifth Edition of Pub 150, World Port Index gives the location, characteristics, known facilities, and available services of a port’s, shipping facilities and oil terminals throughout the Read more…
In a previous blog I mentioned how ArcGIS Pro did not have the functionality to create geodesic lines. Well there is an add-in available for that now and it can be used in ArcGIS Pro 1.4 – 2.0 as well as in ArcMap and ArcGIS Web AppBuilder. It is free Read more…
What are Geodesic distances? A geodesic line is the shortest path between two points on a curved surface, like the Earth. They are the analogue of a straight line on a plane surface or whose sectioning plane at all points along the line remains normal to the surface. It is a way of showing Read more…
Introduction Map scale is one of the most important factors to consider when representing data on a map. It is important not to lose the message of the map by including too much data. The standard way of controlling the scalable visibility of data is by either using separate datasets Read more…
We thought to kick off the Geospatial Geoscience blog with an awesome tip concerning ArcPro. After initializing and getting data into the software it quickly became apparent that the usual long list of styles was no longer there! Symbology groups like “Petroleum UK” and “Geology 24k” are not shipped with Read more…