Charlie Frye
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I am Chief Cartographer at Esri, and manage the Cartographic Projects Group on the Content Team. I have been with Esri in Software Products since 1994. I am currently the author of Esri's Ecological Land Unit services, global ecological content, and the World Population Estimate Services. Contact me at cfrye@esri.com with questions or feedback.

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Customizing multi-layer symbols

One issue we hear about from the folks who teach cartography with ArcGIS is that users who are new to ArcGIS have some frustration in learning

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A little texture please: Creating fill symbols with feeling

Depicting natural areas such as vegetation or complex hydrography such as swamps and estuaries can be accomplished

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Symbolizing roads with cased line symbols (part 3 of 3)

By Charlie Frye, Esri Chief Cartographer This final part of the series will cover using cartographic representations for dashed lines,...

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Symbolizing roads with cased line symbols (part 2 of 3)

By Charlie Frye, Esri Chief Cartographer Symbolizing road overpasses or underpasses typically requires that you perform two data pre...

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Symbolizing roads with cased line symbols (part 1 of 3)

By Charlie Frye, Esri Chief Cartographer This is the first of three parts that cover how to symbolize roads with cased line symbols. ...

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Creating street name indexes

By Charlie Frye, Esri Chief Cartographer We received a suggestion to write a blog entry on this topic from Anna Schwabedal, who is a t...

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About the Geometrical Interval classification method

By Charlie Frye, Esri Chief Cartographer Those of you who regularly use the classification dialog will have noticed a new classificati...

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Using feature weight rankings to avoid placing labels on major streets

By Charlie Frye, Esri Chief Cartographer Notice in the first graphic below that the labels for "CAJON ST" and "CLIFTON CT" are placed ...

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Creating a legend for hypsometrically tinted shaded relief

In ArcGIS, the main problem is that the hypsometric tints assigned to the DEM will appear in the default legend as the colors

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