Make Great Symbols in ArcGIS Pro — Edie Punt, Craig Williams

Edie and Craig are gonna do this one together Edie has been a cartographer and a writer a Tesori since 1996 she's also a recipient of the National Geographic Society awarding carat cartography and is the co-author of the book cartographic extraordinaire Craig is a product engineer lead at and ESRI doing arcgis desktop enterprise products he has interests in text placement maps symbolization visualization and 3d cartography Craig's day-to-day work involves working on new cartographic software development but he occasionally finds the time to make a map or two so take it away all right thanks we're gonna tag-team this I'm gonna do a little intro and a little demo and then Edie's gonna take over and bring us home talking about making great symbols in ArcGIS Pro this slide deck I just tweeted it's up here on speaker deck so when we talk about symbols in arcgis pro we're primarily talking about symbols that are classified by geometry type points lines polygons mesh for some of our 3d usage and text and these are built from symbol layers marker stroke fill procedural would be a specialized 3d type and you can customize these symbols with symbol effects and marker placements which we'll talk about for quite a bit in this in this talk there's some advanced functionality you can connect symbol properties to attributes you can do some data-driven applications and you can adjust size by scale that was some of the functionality that Kay talked about in her talk the main key thing here is that symbols allow us to define an appearance and then apply it to a large number of features which is really key for GIS workflows where you have large volumes of data you want to control how that data is symbolized and you spend a lot of time in your symbol configurations so symbol layers are really the building blocks of symbols and then symbol effects operate on symbol layers or at the whole symbol level and we'll demonstrate this another key part is that symbol effects sometimes can change the geometry type we call those shape shifters informally and on their team and I'll demonstrate that as well the most basic example of how a symbol is structured in ArcGIS pro this is slightly different than an arcmap a polygon symbol would be made up of two layers one of those layers in this example is a solid stroke that's the outline and then we have a solid fill that's the green fill in arcmap that actually would have been just one layer with a stroke and fill embedded on it but this breakdown of having these symbol layers be more primitives makes it more flexible for us down the line so I'm gonna move into demonstration bounce out here to ArcGIS Pro and I have a really really basic map here showing four different lines at first glance they may look really really similar to each other but they're actually not and I'm gonna zoom in a little bit and talk about one of our most basic effects and that's the dash effect and it's so commonly used that we add it to every stroke by default in the user interface and you can see here that we have several different options for our dash effects at the top we're starting the dash with a full gap so you can see this gray line represents the geometry the line that we're actually symbolizing it starts out with a full gap I can also start with a full pattern I can start with a half gap or I could start with a half pattern so we have a lot of different configuration capabilities available on each effect and this dash effect is just one of the more basic effects that we can see and you know why would I really want to manage all those endings on my on my dashes if you come here to this example let me turn off the background layer we have the intersection maybe for a boundary of some dashed lines and you see how prominent this intersection is because we have full dashes at the intersection and really it's bringing attention to that you may not want to bring attention to that to that specific area if I actually make that a half pattern you'll see that it's significantly lighter because we only have a half pattern making that that line cross in the center so a lot of configuration capabilities here with effects in arcgis pro now in addition to effects we also have a concept called marker placements marker placements are useful for things like placing you know these cold front markers along a line if I'm doing a meteorological map so I can specify that I want this triangle repeated at a certain distance on the map and I want it to be aligned with the line another up another different approach would be something where I want the marker symbol placed at a distance but I wanted to remain horizontal so in this case we have a route that turns and you can see that the symbol of this marker symbol on it is actually staying horizontal as it moves from vertical to horizontal so those are just different capabilities with marker placements in arcgis pro and then i'll show a more complex symbol type this is a single symbol that if I open up the symbology pane for it you'll see that it has three symbol layers it has the shape marker this shape marker is placed at the center of the polygon it has a solid stroke that's the outline here and then it has a solid fill and this marker placement here I could place this at the centroid or use various other algorithms to to repeat this or place it you know repeating would be common if I'm doing something like a map of orchards so these are just the basic effects and marker placements in arcgis Pro now I'll move on to a slightly more complex example which would be something that changes shape so what I have here is I have the salmon River and New York State and I'm going to open up the symbol properties for this and I'm actually going to add a global effect and you can see here the list of effects in in arcgis pro and i'm going to add the tapered polygon effect and when i add that and come back to the basic properties of the symbol you can see it's added that papered polygons effect options I can choose to make this say a 5/5 points start and I'll apply that and you'll see that I've now tapered this polygon but it's just drawing the outline why is it just drawing the outline well I don't have a fill layer on this symbol now I took something that had a solid stroke converted it to a polygon that solid stroke became the outline of that polygon so I can just add a fill layer and I can actually turn off the stroke and then I'll change the color of the fill and you can see here I have a tapered polygon drawn there now so that's an example of a global effect where the first thing the symbol does is convert the geometry type from a line to a polygon and then I can symbolize it as a polygon from then on oh now we talked a lot about lines and polygons here point symbols would be another case where you may want to do some modification of out-of-the-box symbols what I have here is a map I saw in a Boeing brochure that was advertising and I'm not kidding it was Montreal example to begin with all the places where the Dreamliner the variations of the Dreamliner aircraft could reach flying out of the Montreal Airport so I have a equidistant as methyl projection here and you can see all these distances of the various Dreamliner configurations but I may want to change this this star here to another symbol and one of the more common ways you would want to bring in exterior graphics is as SVG so an artist Pro I can now import actually the logo for the Montreal Airport you can see here in the preview I can see the logo and I may want to change the color here once I've imported it to be the official color of the Montreal Airport which I happen to have memorized and there we go we've changed this symbol updates on the map I can then make further modifications to this symbol maybe fix some of the figure-ground issues and and so on so that's just a quick overview of effects and placements and urges Pro and how you can use those to build symbols in your map now Edie's going to talk about organizing those symbols and I'll turn it over to her for the remainder of the presentation okay thanks Craig so symbols are really powerful in arcgis pro craig just showed you a quick overview but the other thing we can talk about is styles and styles are collections of symbols and styles are how we organize our work in our chess pro so it's not just symbols it's actually all of your map assets all the colors you use in arcgis pro can be stored in styles color schemes label placements to all the things you put on your layout styles are a really good way to organize yourself and promote consistency across your work so it's kind of good to learn about them they're sort of optional you're not forced to use styles but it's a good way to keep your work organized so there's a notion of system styles in arcgis pro system styles are those styles that are included with the install of our chess pro and the system styles we are always looking to increase what we have in there and balance it with the size of the download but we offer a lot with the download but they're not all added to your project automatically so what we call project styles are the styles that are linked to your project and if you share your project those styles will go with them so it's a good way to coordinate with your colleagues when you share those projects if you're working with styles so there's a number of different ways to add style your project you can search some online you can add the system styles I'm not going to go through all of that what I've got here as a screenshot on this slide is a little tip that not a lot of people find when you're in a gallery all of the things that are in the gallery are not hard-coded you control what's in the gallery so anything that's in the gallery is from the project style so the styles you choose to be in the project so you can search those project styles or you can even search all styles which means searching all of the styles that Ezra makes available and sometimes that means you find some cool stuff that's not actually part of your project and when that happens just hover over next to the style name like I have in the screenshot and you'll see an ad style connection and that's a quick shortcut way to add that style to your project so you'll start seeing the things in that style in your galleries so if you used arcmap you might have known about the style manager we've made Styles a little bit more accessible in pro there we call them now sort of a first class citizen there's a project item you use the catalog view in arcgis pro to manage them and it's a little bit more visual it's got a lot more functionality that's easier to find one of the really good use cases is taking our symbols that we provide all that every symbols are read-only but it's very easy to just grab them and copy them into your own styles and then you can modify it copy those symbols into your own styles and modify them as you like we have a concept called a favorites style if you were an arcmap user this is synonymous with your personal style your favorite style is linked to your profile not to the map itself it's a great place to sandbox some things try some things out also quickly use your favorite colors maybe your corporate colors whatever from project to project because it's based on you profile not not the project so anytime you are working with any symbol you've made something really complicated maybe setup all those effects like Craig was talking about save it to your style and then you can reuse it you can modify it from there another tip and trick here is working with your arc map styles so Styles in arcmap and styles in pro are a little bit different they're both databases but the underlying database behind it is different so arcmap styles for a dot style file arcgis pro styles are dot style x file if you have a lot of work invested in your arcmap styles never fear it's a very simple import so you just want to import those styles and all of your symbology will come across like craig mention we're using a new symbol model but that import is a really great way to get all of those arcmap symbols into arcgis pro and if you are a representation user if you had a lot of symbols set up as representations in arcmap all of those will be converted to arcgis pro symbols so all the representation effects and marker placements all of that work you might have put in will will come in so i just want to recap i've thrown out a couple terms here craig has all these slides loaded so you don't need to scribble this down if it's interesting to you but system styles are the ones that we provide they're read-only favorite style that's your own style that's linked to your profile custom style is any other style that you made or you get we have a number of solution styles for specific industries that we don't include with the download to keep the install small but if you search online just in your portal search all portal usually if you just search for star dot style x that's the best way to find them and yeah that's there's lots more out there and it's a great way to share them as well to share your Styles you've made with your colleagues so that's how we got [Applause]

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Length: 15min 42sec (942 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 10 2017