Adventures In Mapping | John Nelson Maps

Here’s an ArcGIS Pro project where the StateFace font (remember that?!

One of the many beguiling traits of ArcGIS Pro is that it treats text geometry like any other polygon.

Contour lines show you the overall terrain of a place by connecting equal elevation (or whatever data you happen to be mapping).

Adding a hillshade terrain to your basemap can give the map reader incredible amounts of information about the surface of the earth.

The Vector Tile Style Editor lets you remove, splice, and restyle vector basemap content to your heart’s content.

I’ll be in a mad dash at the San Diego Convention Center the week of the Esri UC.

We geographers can dig pretty deep in the weeds of data collection and analysis, reveling in the fun of precision, process, statistics, even visualization.

I’ll be visiting Oslo Norway this May for a one-day cartographic workshop!

Join Peter Atwood and me as we nerd out on maps in movies (and TV) in an “experts review” (I use that term loosely and reluctantly in my case) bonanza.

We in Michigan have been using our hand as the world’s most convenient cartographic resource since 1837.

Here’s a map poster made in ArcGIS Pro, and I’d like to tell you exactly how it was made.

Hey, check out the black labels for the black polygon features in this map!

Basemaps can be a busy place.

There are a lot of things to think about and manage and tinker with when you assemble a map into a layout, but here are three overarching things to consider: A well-balanced composition.