Study Area Mapping | Create Map Layout in ArcGIS

today i am going to prepare a study area map using shapefile so first i am adding the shape file then open the attribute table and select your study area then go to data to export data you can rename this as per your preference so that you can get it easily from your desktop [Music] i'm changing the color of the studio so this is my study area that i extracted from district boundary now i'm going to frame it to show a study area and district boundary for showing clearly you can change the layout as per your preference just go to page and print setup you can select portrait or landscape [Applause] click on full extent to adjust properly with the data frame i'm taking a data frame from insert option you can copy from the here and just paste to new data frame yeah because oh no yeah this is my study area click full extent to adjust now i will highlight the study area from the bangladesh there is a option draw now just follow what i'm doing you can change the color from here yeah i keep the same color as a mastered area for title yeah write your area name you can change the size and position change symbol from here you can change the color you can change the size then okay yeah it appears black as i did yeah properties then write your area name apply okay i'm writing dhaka as this master area for legend click on insert then you will get recent option you can edit as per your choice next yeah size option next then you can change the border the background shadow then next set the spacing between the parts of your legend it's up to you then finish here where is the legend i'm changing the name district boundary and it will appear the same as in legend you can ungroup this legend item and edit separately paste here you can keep like that as i have already uh mentioned here region two tools and uh in a frame study area and district boundary so i deleted the second actually you will get title legend direction scale bar or scale text from insert option skill here is different types of skill you can choose as per your choice units i'm keeping it kilometers gap then okay then scale text skill bar kilometer okay now scale text now one of the important thing is to insert grid i mean that and long go to properties new grid here which do we want to create the first option appearance the labels only next finish for more edits click on properties and you will get a lot of options to arrange the lat and long just to see how to i'm doing interior labels labels degree milliseconds font size color level orientation i'm keeping it left and right lines intervals degree minutes seconds okay here you can see the tick mark uh falls inside the data frame so i will make it to show outside the frame just click outside display takes outside then okay okay do the same as i did before labels only next finish then properties level orientation left and right okay here you can see the space between lat long is very low it does not look good for increasing the spacing go again to the grid option here you can put the interval number that you want to see in the map [Music] so group these three lines into one so that it cannot be changed now i'm going to give a border of the map so that it looks good what is this the study area map is done now i will save this map export map go in the file export map choose the folder where you want to save and rename the file name save as type you can change the resolution of map then click to save finally this is our study map so this is the way to make a study area map in arcgis thank you for watching

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Length: 17min 13sec (1033 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 16 2020