You can now edit cartography features in 9.2 just as you would with the datasets themselves. Many times the symbology of ArcGIS just doesn’t display correctly, but now you can edit how the symbology is displayed. It is kind of hard to describe this, but if you think about how a product such as Adobe Illustrator works with vector lines, you now have this and even more control over how lines and features look and store them in your Geodatabase. You no longer have to massage GIS datasets so they look good, but work with the symbology. The backend dataset stays the same. I hope ESRI will put up a demo online so you can see what this looks like. Override symbols right from the view, you don’t have to edit the properties anymore. Very impressive!
Cartography in ArcGIS 9
July 25th, 2005 · 2 Comments · ArcGIS Desktop
Tags:
2 responses so far ↓
1 Spatially Adjusted with James Fee » Blog Archive » Cartography and ArcMap // Feb 23, 2006 at 5:09 pm
[...] What I have noticed lately is the quality of the mapping from our clients. These “basemaps” replace the old GDM maps that were used in the past (or NIMA) and they look very professional. What is even more amazing is that they are done without any of the old tricks we had to use in the past (export to Illustrator, etc). I also think we are at the cusp of a cartography revolution with the new cartographic features of ArcGIS Desktop 9.2 (I blogged about them back at the UC). I’m looking forward to see what maps are produced using the new powerful cartography tools. [...]
2
mercur202
// Nov 30, 2007 at 2:00 am
Hi
How is better to digitize features from scanned map, with Arc GIS or with AutoCAD and the export to Arc GIS, your experience????
Leave a Comment