How to Make this Corner Overview Globe in ArcGIS Pro

hi there i'm so happy you could join me now i made this map recently and when i shared it i got a lot of feedback particularly about that overview globe down there in the corner it was positive feedback people liked it and it's so simple to make i thought well shoot why don't i show you how i did this you can probably guess a lot of it but i'll just show you how okay here i am in my arcgis pro project this is the overview map within my layout i'm just going to turn this off and then make it for you so here is a map and this is all the content that i'm going to use in my overview map i'll turn it all off and then walk through what we're looking at bit by bit layer by layer this is a layer showing world countries this is sourced from project line work moriarty hand so projectlinework.org has a lot of kind of neat hand drawn for the most part line work polygons of like world layers i don't know it's just a really nice resource and i found that moriarty hand drawn by dylan moriarty is an excellent generalized layer for actual map applications not just for fun charmingly inaccurate kind of versions but actually really good for small scale maps because there's not too much resolution that mucks things up when you zoom out i'll show you what i mean so here i am in pro it looks great doesn't it that's more you already hand when you zoom in really close you can see it's really a little bit wonky kind of wobbly and very basic and generalized it's supposed to now a lot of the times a mistake people make when they make an overview map especially one with borders is that there's just too much geographic precision like the coast of norway just shouts at you same for all these islands in south america and we just need a very basic reference and frankly it's quite hard to get a generalized to to create a generalization from a high resolution source that looks this good so just benefit from the generosity of dylan moriarty uh actually hand digitizing all of these countries in their charming simplicity and use it for your overview maps even though it's not accurate that's okay you don't need accurate at this scale okay so here's our just world countries layer and i've made a duplicate of that layer and restricted it only to my country of interest this could be whatever the topic of your map is this could be a state a county another country an area of interest that's not a geographic or a political boundary whatever you get the point and it's the exact same layer i just duplicated it and restyled it and ran a definition query to isolate only my area of interest which happens to be slovenia because this is the topic of my map slovenia so i've got slovenia here moving back out now if you're curious about this symbology it's this is what it is i've got a solid fill with a simple blue stroke and then i've got this gradient stroke that gives it a slight kind of drop shadow effect it's a hack but it's really effective and it helps it pop off of the base map when you make it really small in your layout and then the last layer i want to show you is this this is a global background rectangle it's just a single rectangular polygon that covers the whole world and i've symbolized it to be just a very thick gradient stroke that's opaque on the outside and transitions to fully transparent on the inside of the stroke here's how it looks weird right why am i using this well that's because i want to give this a neat pseudo 3d roundness effect and that only comes to light when i change this coordinate system from wgs84 into a more rounded perspective of the world i'll show you how to do this so i'm going to open the properties of my overview how to map right now my coordinate system is wgs84 you know the default for everything pretty much i'm going to search for the world from space if i choose this cool huh this is not like a 3d scene this is a flat 2d map with a projection that kind of looks orthographic kind of like you're floating in space looking at the world my center location my lat and long center is like right here but you aren't stuck with that default or any other default i'll remind you so let's go back into the properties and we'll look at this world from space i'm going to right click this and choose copy and modify and now we can mix up the the properties for this this coordinate system there's a latitude of center and a longitude of center longitude latitude right now it's negative 72 which is kind of out near the coast of the united states and the latitude of center is 42 which is you know 40 almost halfway between the equator and the north pole we're going to want to change that let me show you what we want our area of interest is way over here see that this is slovenia over here now i'll remind you in the layout we are going to have a little overview globe tucked into the corner here and i'm not going to show the whole overview globe i think that's actually part of the charm i'm only going to show you a little slice of the globe just like this like it's setting a setting earth down here in the corner so what we want to do is center our coordinate system so that slovenia is kind of um in the middle of the top left quadrant of our earth let's let's play at this and i say play at this because it's a lot of trial and error i already forgot the coordinates oh man whatever so this is going to be 14 was it and then 48 i forgot you you remember i forgot that's okay oh man okay that's pretty good um so now we're looking at slovenia in the center but if i put this into my layout remember we're only going to see this corner and it's going to be not very good looking what i want to do is adjust the center lat and long so that slovenia is over here which means i've gotta put my center point kind of over here for my perspective let's play around at it open the properties and see this little underscore one often that's like underscore kajillion by the time i get it where i want it the longitude i want it to be farther east so this is going to be 50 degrees let's say latitude i want to make the earth appear that it's rotated up so i'm gonna go down let's just hit the equator say zero and we hit okay and that actually is not bad so if i draw my imaginary quadrant here i want to pull this down a little so my center point needs to go north okay let's do that properties i'll be modify it's easy it's fast let's go 10 degrees usually work in orders of 10 degree that is gonna look really nice i think let's let's give it a shot so back in my layout i'm going to insert a new map frame and my overview how to is right here so pick this one i never understand the difference between those and now about placement i could just jam it all the way in the corner but i've got this neat line here that has content spilling outside of it which frankly i hate neat lines and the only reason i made this neat line because it was a chance for me to do something weird with a neat line and not actually cut the map off at that point it just helps kind of add a nice graphical framing element so i could put my overview all the way in the corner and let's actually start out that way so okay so there's my world i mean i need to adjust the position if i click and drag this right now i'm not going to navigate i'm just gonna oh i'm just gonna move it so i'll hit undo control z go back you have to activate this and now i'm in navigation mode and that kind of cool now i can navigate this so that my earth quadrant looks like this isn't that kind of neat you get the point right i'm just setting earth i'll exit out of this now i've got a big one pixel black border around my overview globe which i don't like and i'm not stuck with it i can right click and go into the properties which opened off screen here it is and this little display doodad i'll just say zero points for my map border okay now it doesn't have a border and it doesn't have a background i can see through in the corner area which is good okay now i wanted to place it here so it looks like it's aligned with this little neat line thing that i've added now when i zoom out i have this charming little inset world if i wanted to see how i can see through this globe into the background i kind of like that honestly but if i didn't like it i could always go back here and make a copy of this and paste it and drag it to the very bottom and just give this a solid fill if i was worried about it but i'm not so here we are this is how you add a little charming corner globe overview to a layout oriented so that it looks like it's kind of on a setting earth pretty fun give it a shot

Channel: John Nelson

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Length: 11min 0sec (660 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 23 2020