Own Your Map

This week's lab asked us to create different elements in a map of Florida with counties and cities.  I enjoyed playing around with the different elements and creating something I thought looked nice and portrayed the information well.

Process Summary:

1. extracted "OwnYourMap.zip" from R:drive to S:drive
2. opened ArcCatalog
3. opened Own Your Map
4. viewed info in contents, preview and description under the cities_feb04 shapefile
5. gathered info for metadata
6. opened OwnYourMap.mxd in ArcMap
7. saved as OwnYourMap_cmb88
8. changed view to landscape
9. added neatline with inside margins with gap of 10
10. selected double line as border
11. aligned image 'to margins', 'to center' and 'vertical center' and zoomed to extent
12. added Title "Florida Cities for Intro to GIS"
13. changed font to Lucida Bright 20 bold cabernet with character space of 5
14. added Legend: cabernet, Lucida Bright, bold, 14 point - changed names to County Boundary and Cities, added doubleline border in cabernet with gap of 5 - background of sand color
15. added North arrow - ESRI North 64
16. added Scale - scale bar 1 - Lucida Bright, 12, bold, cabernet
17. added Name and Date
18. added metadata
19. saved to S:drive and H:drive as OwnYourMap

ArcGIS10 Overview Lab

ArcMap Lab for Intro to GIS - Catherine Bronson

Process Summary

1. Opened and extracted the map data to my S: drive
2. Added the data to ArcMap
3. Added the World_Countries shapefile
4. Explored the tools and followed the instructions to answer the Lab questions
5. Once back at Full Extent, I added the Cities layer to ArcMap
6. I changed the color of the Cities layer by clicking on the symbol and selecting the square, size 2
7. I changed the World Countries layer by right clicking and choosing the Graduated Colors, POP2007 and then the Color Ramp to blues  and purples and the number of Classes to 7
8. I changed the map background color to Lt Cyan
9. I changed the Layout View to Landscape and fit image to area
10. I inserted the north arrow I liked
11. I inserted the scale bar in kilometers
12. I inserted the title in the font I liked
13. I inserted the legend
14. I exported the map as a JPEG to my S:drive and to my H:drive