designing a map layout purpose of map audience map elements

Designing a map layout

• Purpose of map• Audience• Map elements

Contents of a map

• Primary - main theme or actual subject• Secondary

- grid- graticules- latitude / longitude

• Supportive- title- scale

- legend- location diagram

- projection

• other essential elements:dates of survey/compilationsourcenorth arrowsurveyor/producerinformation on adjacent sheets

Contents of a map

Creating a map layout

• Define the layout page• Add layout frames and set their properties• Add graphics• Create layout templates• Print the layout

Defining the layout page• Size • Orientation

• Margins • Grid

• Zooming in and out on the layout page

Defining frames

ViewLegend

Scale barNorth Arrow

ChartTablePicture

-each component in the layout has its own corresponding frame

- add components using the Frame Tool

Creating a frame• Choose one of the Frame tools• Draw a rectangle for the frame on the layout page

Layout1

Start

End

• Set the properties for the frame

View Frames

• Contains the view on the layout page

• You can place any number of view frams in the layout

• Move and resize frames

• Double click inside the view frame to display View Frame properties

Setting view frame properties

• Automatic (view scales to width of view frame)

Scaling the view frame

• Preserve view scale

Scaling the view frame

Scaling the view frame

• User specified scale

View frame extent

• Fill view frame

• Clip to view

Redrawing the layout

• Display Always• Display When Active

Layout 1

Bicycle course

Setting legend frame properties

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Setting scale bar frame properties

North Arrow frame• North arrows are contained within frames in the layout.

When you create a north arrow frame you select a style of north arrow to place on the layout. You can also choose an angle (in degrees) that the north arrow should be rotated.

Text and other graphics

• Use the drawing tool to add graphics such as neatlines, boxes, and other shapes

• Add text for titles and other descriptive information

Working with map elements

• Select

• Move

• Resize

• Group

• Ungroup

• Align

Layout template

• Save any layout as a layout template• Use the layout design as the basis for other

layouts• Use EMPTY frames (views, tables, etc.) for

the different map components• When the layout template is used, any

view/table/etc. can be assigned to the empty frame

Creating a layout template

• Choose a layout

- Layout\use template

-choose the desired template

Save layouts as template

• Layout\store as template

• type a name for your template

• select an icon, OK

• Your new template will be added in the template manager