Aileen Buckley
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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.

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Using rotation angles for markers, lines, or polygon fills

By Aileen Buckley, Mapping Center Lead If having the proper orientation, or rotation angle is an important characteristic of your symb...

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Omit specific features from display using cartographic representations

By Aileen Buckley, Mapping Center Lead If you want to remove selected features from display with standard ArcMap symbol management too...

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Symbolizing PLSS lines with the Cut Curve geometric effect

By Aileen Buckley, Mapping Center Lead In the United States, the Public Land Survey System (PLSS) is a way of subdividing land. The U...

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Cartographic settings in the ArcMap Advanced Settings utility

By Aileen Buckley, Mapping Center Lead A lot of people don't know about the ArcMap Advanced Settings utility - it can help you customi...

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Verbal scales

By Aileen Buckley, Mapping Center Lead A verbal scale is also referred to as a “word statement” or a “scale expression”, and i...

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Representative fractions

By Aileen Buckley, Mapping Center Lead A representative fraction (RF) is the ratio of distance on the map to distance on the ground. Rep...

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Choosing the best way to indicate map scale

By Aileen Buckley, Mapping Center Lead In a previous blog entry, I asked, "Do all maps need a scale bar and north arrow?" I answered, "N...

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Does every map need a north arrow and scale bar?

By Aileen Buckley, Mapping Center Lead I had an interesting email conversation this morning with one of my mentors, and the subject re...

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Cartographic relief presentation is now available from Esri Press

By Aileen Buckley, Mapping Center Lead Eduard Imhof’s Cartographic Relief Presentation is now available from Esri Press. Many of us...

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