Making Maps and Map Series using ArcGIS Pro Layouts

This video shows a workflow for creating a Project and inserting a Map, a Layout and a Map Frame, into it. We export the Layout to a single-page PDF file, before expanding the workflow to define a Map Series using the same Layout, and exporting that to a multi-page PDF file.

This video shows multiple layouts being inserted into a project, and how to change properties like their name and page size. It also shows multiple map frames being inserted into a layout using the map’s default extent, the current extent of its view and its bookmark extents. We also insert an empty placeholder map frame using the <None> option.

This video visits each view type found on the Contents pane which are the List By Drawing Order, List By Element Type, List By Map Frame and List By Map Series Page views.

This video shows how to navigate the page of a Layout using your mouse to pan and zoom, using keyboard shortcuts to zoom by dragging a rectangle, zooming to the full, next and previous extents of the page, zooming to selected elements and how to navigate the page while using another tool. We also look at how to zoom a map within a layout using map exploration tools like zoom, pan and bookmarks with or without activating the map frame.

This video examines Layout Properties with emphasis on the Page Setup tab.

This video sets three short challenges related to definition queries, inserting a layout and a map frame, and zooming a map frame to a layer extent. It also shows how to change the size and position of a map frame and how Rulers, Guides and Printer Margins can be used to help design a page.

This video shows how to place, size and align static text elements on a page using the Straight, Rectangle, Circle, Polygon, Ellipse and Curved Text tools. We see how to align text to the edges of the page, wrap text inside text elements, and set other properties on text elements like visibility, locking, columns, margins, borders, background colors and shadows.

This video uses dynamic text formatting within text elements to display text on layouts for the current user, date and time from the operating system, spatial reference from the map frame, path of the project and when it was last saved as well as when a layout was exported to a PDF. It also shows the spell checker being used.

This video uses properties and text formatting tags to set bolding, underlining and colors of tags before looking at special purpose text symbols like watermarks, shields and callouts.

This video leads you through inserting various types of graphics (rectangle/neatline, polygon, lasso, circle, ellipse, line, curved line, freehand line, point, picture/logo) into your layouts. We merge shapes and rotate and flip/mirror graphics, and we insert a North Arrow to see how its rotation is linked to that of a map frame.

This video shows how to Select, Align, Group, Order, Lock, Nudge and set Visibility on layout elements and sets a small challenge to Select using Polygon, Lasso, Circle and Line options.

This video inserts a map frame and a scale bar linked to it so that you can use the ribbon and the Element pane modify its properties like intervals, colors, label font styles, spellings and positions. We see how scale bars can be modified both as a whole and by their parts, and we then insert a second map frame and a scale bar within the same layout.

This video shows how to insert legends with one or more columns that adjust their font size automatically. We make adjustments to the spacing between different parts of the legend like its patches, labels, columns and heading. We also examine the options for keeping changes to layers in the map in sync with the legend.

This video will configure properties of individual items within legends such as their patch shapes and sizes, symbol labels and descriptions, arrangement order of the patch, label and description, text fonts and text colors. We add feature counts and see the option to have them change dynamically with the map extent.

This video places four types of grids and graticules (graticule, measured grid, reference grid, MGRS grid) on a map frame. It examines the options for configuring various properties of the reference grid such as their numbering scheme labels, tabs, gridlines and intersection points.

This video examines the properties of graticules (e.g. edge labels, their intervals and dynamic text formatting; corner labels) and measured grids (e.g. coordinate system).

This video examines how labels for measured grids can have complex text formatting applied to them to achieve mixed font sizes and colors. A challenge is set for you to change font sizes for your measured grid.

This video presents a challenge to align neatlines, a map frame and a legend on a page and provides a PDF of instructions. The result is a page with three panels, the middle panel with a map of countries and a dynamic legend for them. Your solution to this challenge is needed to complete the two lectures that follow this one.

This video shows how to insert a Table Frame into a Layout to display fields from an attribute table, and some of the many options for configuring the table displayed like row shading, heading size and color, fields to display, field ordering, row sorting and row spacing.

This video shows us how to configure a simple Chart View and then how to insert that into a Chart Frame on a Layout where its contents are dynamic and correspond to features seen in the Map Frame and its Legend, as well as in the rows of the Table Frame on the same Layout.

This video uses the Map Frame Format Ribbon to work with the Map Frame as a whole or with any of its components (Background, Border, Shadow). We use the Editing Toolbar to move vertices and reshape the polygon that represents the Map Frame so that we can graphically clip its contents.

This video explores Map Frame properties that can be accessed from the Element pane like setting a fixed extent, center and scale. It also examines the difference between rotating a map frame and rotating a map within a map frame.

This video inserts four copies of the same rectangular map frame onto a layout (with a graticule) and then reshapes them to be a polygon, lasso, circle and ellipse. We then see how each of the four non-rectangular map frames can have its vertices edited.

This video shows how to insert an Overview Map, and an Inset Map, alongside the Main Map of a Layout and configures Extent Indicators with properties such as symbology and leader lines of various types so that we can see where each Map Frame is located with respect to the others.

This video inserts a Basemap, Global Scene and Local Scene into a Layout using Map Frames. It then attempts to use Extent Indicators to display where the map frames with 3D scenes are located in the basemap frame and vice versa.

This video shows how to save/export Layer (*.lyrx), Map (*.mapx) and Layout (*.pagx) Files from one project and import them back into both the same project and then another project. One of the Layer Files is saved from a Layer Group and when imported the layers within layer group hierarchy is retained.

This video shows an ArcMap Map Document (*.mxd) being imported into an ArcGIS Pro Project as a Map and a Layout with its Map Surrounds. ArcGlobe (*.3dd) and ArcScene (*.sxd) documents can be imported as Global and Local Scenes using the same workflow.

This video takes us through enabling and configuring a simple Map Series with one page for each province of Canada and exports it to a multi-page PDF file. Each page will have a single Map Frame centered on a province, with its name as a title, and a legend showing all provinces which are at least partially visible within its extent.

This video sets a challenge, modelled on the previous lecture, for you to enable and configure a simple Map Series with one page for each country of Africa and export it to a multi-page PDF file. Each page will have a single Map Frame centered on a country, with its name as a title, and a legend showing all countries which are at least partially visible within its extent.

This video enhances the simple Canada map series created in the first lecture of this section so that it has an overview map (first with a rectangular extent indicator and then using the shape of the feature itself as the indicator), page numbers at the bottom of each page, and a page query that labels only Places within the page feature labelled and all other Canadian places displayed but not labelled.

This video uses the Grid Index Features tool to generate an index feature class, for a Map Series of rectangular map sheets on a Layout that contains main and overview maps, a title and text for the map scale. The coordinate system used for the index (and map series) is chosen with help from a spatial filter.

This video shows how to add an Index Map to the Layout started in the previous lecture. An Index Map shows the current map sheet, using an Extent Indicator, and has a dynamic extent that changes to show up to eight adjacent map sheets to. We also see how to add the names of the adjacent map sheets to the index layer by using the Calculate Adjacent Fields tool.

This video creates an index feature class from a linear feature using the Strip Map Index Features tool, and then uses it to configure a Strip Map Series where each page is rotated to fit the map frame, the borders of overlapping pages are not displayed by setting a page query, and a North Arrow and Overview Map updates to show the rotation and location of each page.

This video shows how to create a Bookmark Map Series by first using the Locate tool to find five locations and then creating bookmarks from their extents. We see how to change the order of pages and how to round their scales.

This video shows how to create a point feature class with attributes suitable for configuring a Spatial Map Series where every page can be set to display at a different scale using a different Projected Coordinate System. It finishes by taking the TableChartProject from a much earlier lecture and quickly configuring it as a Spatial Map Series to show how dynamic tables and charts can be included in map series.

This video thanks and congratulates you for completing the course. It reminds you of the sections that you have completed, the courses you may want to do next, and where to get help with exercises from the course and with any work or study you do with ArcGIS Pro beyond the course.