Dr. Aileen Buckley is a cartographer who’s been at Esri since 2003. She finds and shares best practices for mapping and analysis with ArcGIS, which leads her to publish widely and present world-wide.
Dr. Aileen Buckley is a cartographer who’s been at Esri since 2003. She finds and shares best practices for mapping and analysis with ArcGIS, which leads her to publish widely and present world-wide.
By Aileen Buckley, Mapping Center Lead An aspect-slope map simultaneously shows the aspect (direction) and degree (steepness) of slope...
By Aileen Buckley, Mapping Center Lead Hypsometric tinting (also called layer tinting, elevation tinting, elevation coloring or hypsom...
By Aileen Buckley, Mapping Center Lead I've often had the situation where I wanted to use a raster data source as a single-color map b...
By Aileen Buckley, Mapping Center Lead We recently received a question about legends on Ask a Cartographer, so I thought we should p...
By Aileen Buckley, Mapping Center Lead Recently we were asked if there are any cartographic standards for inset maps. Here are a few g...
By Aileen Buckley, Mapping Center Lead This question comes in fairly regularly at Ask A Cartographer, so I felt it was time to add a b...
By Aileen Buckley, Mapping Center Lead There are some general guidelines you can follow regarding the size of text and symbols on a map....
By Aileen Buckley, Mapping Center Lead The map excerpt shown at right (click on it to see the details) shows an example of hollow case...
By Aileen Buckley, Mapping Center Lead The illustration at left shows a map of the Paris Metro system (RATP). The routes are depicted ...
