Andy Skinner
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Andy is a Cartographic Designer who has been building maps for 50 years. He has been working with Esri in Redlands for 14 years, most recently on the creation of some of Esri's vector basemaps, and the development of color ramps for ArcGIS Online. Prior to Esri, he was Manager of Cartographic Design at Rand McNally, and before that a Senior Cartographer at GeoSystems/MapQuest. He is originally from England, and worked for a number of years at what is now the University of Derby before moving to the USA. Andy can be contacted at: askinner@esri.com

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Towards a DARK Accessible Basemap

Building a dark basemap that is accessible and/or color blind-safe – in particular, a map that complies with WCAG standards.

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Red … Green … What?

Sometimes it seems we are obsessed with using red and green in our maps, but for some people this is a problem.

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Towards an Accessible Basemap

Building basemaps that are accessible and/or color blind-safe – in particular, maps that comply with WCAG standards.

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What was old …

The blending tools in Map Viewer Beta are offering many new opportunities for rendering maps … and resurrecting some old ones.

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With a few steps … Customizing complex vector basemaps

Customizing Esri vector tile maps is easy these days, but our more complex basemaps can be daunting. They are not out of reach however…

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Revisited, reworked and reinvigorated: Meet the National Geographic Style Basemap

The National Geographic Style basemap moves to vector tiles, with a new and more-detailed background

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Customizing Esri Vector Basemaps – The Basics: Sprites

Adding to or substituting sprite symbols and patterns in vector basemaps using the ArcGIS Vector Tile Style Editor.

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Customizing Esri Vector Basemaps: The Basics revisited

This is a blog and a sequence of story maps, looking at the mechanics of customizing Esri's vector basemaps. An updated edition is available.

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Working with and Customizing Esri Vector Basemaps: The Basics

Have you ever had that moment where you thought 'This basemap would work really well, if only ...'? Now you can edit them yourself.

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