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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Tissot’s indicatrix helps illustrate map projection distortion

By Aileen Buckley, Mapping Center Lead Tissot's indicatrix was first developed by French mathematician Nicolas Auguste Tissot in 1859 ...

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Adding longitude/latitude lines

Question: Hello. I would like add long/lat lines to a map that I have created. How do you do this?

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Printing wall maps from the World Topographic Community basemap

By Aileen Buckley, Mapping Center Lead I recently printed a wall map from the World Topographic Community Basemap, and I thought some ...

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Trouble free scale bar – scale bar length to remain constant size

Question: At our organization users generally want a scale bar which is constant size and a useful size, like 1″ or 2″ wide.

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Color tools for map makers

By Aileen Buckley, Mapping Center Lead My friend and one of my mentors, Dr. Duane Marble, recently shared this story with me: Years a...

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An alternative to web Mercator: Winkel Tripel

By Aileen Buckley, Mapping Center Lead You may have seen the recently released FanMap: SuperBowl Edition. This Web map is unique in a...

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Graphic design principles for mapping: Figure-ground Organization

By Aileen Buckley, Mapping Center Lead There are a number of design principles that are very useful to map makers. These can help your...

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Natural Earth: A free world basemap

Natural Earth is a free, public domain, public domain map dataset available at 1:10, 1:50, and 1:110-million scales

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USGS Historical Quadrangle Scanning Project

By Aileen Buckley, Mapping Center Lead The U.S. Geological Survey, America's national mapping agency, announced recently that they are...

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