Kenneth Field
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Ken is an academic cartographer and geographer from the UK, and since 2011 he teaches, talks and writes about cartography, and makes maps to demonstrate map design at Esri. He considers himself a professional 'cartonerd', educated with a Bachelors in cartography and a PhD in GIS and health geography, and over 30 years experience designing curricula, and teaching map design and GIS. He has presented and published an awful lot and is in demand as a panelist and keynote. He blogs (cartoblography.com), tweets (@kennethfield), is past Editor of The Cartographic Journal (2005–2014), and past Chair of the ICA Map Design Commission (mapdesign.icaci.org 2010-2018). He’s won a few awards for maps, pedagogy and kitchen tile designs. He is author of the best-selling books 'Cartography.' and 'Thematic Mapping' and leads the Esri MOOC on cartography which has been taken by over 200,000 students interested in making better maps. He snowboards, plays drums, builds Lego and supports Nottingham Forest.

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Brewing a new color palette for ArcGIS Pro

ArcGIS Pro offers a rich new experience for making maps.

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Red, Blue and Purple: mapping the 2012 US Presidential Election

Every time an election occurs, maps become a key component in telling the story

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Using Stamen and MapBox tilesets as basemaps in ArcGIS.com

A map tileset is simply a set of images stored on a web server which can be accessed directly.

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Using a binning technique for point-based multiscale web maps

Presenting point-based data on a web map is challenging because of the problem of overlapping symbology

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Using a mapmaking checklist for map design

We all have favorite maps that we think are great, but rather than just saying a map looks great.

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Using scale visibility ranges for symbology in ArcGIS Online web maps

Using scale visibility ranges to set symbology in ArcGIS online web maps thumbnail

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Adding labels to ArcGIS Online web maps: Part 2

Adding labels to web maps Part 2 thumbnailIn Part 1 of this blog entry we showed you how to use the Feature Outline Masks tool

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Adding labels to ArcGIS Online web maps: Part 1

Labeling is important for most, if not all, maps so people can interpret and describe patterns

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Esri Canvas Maps part I: Author beautiful web maps with our new artisan basemap Sandwich

By Mamata Akella, Esri Design Cartographer, and Kenneth Field, Esri Research Cartographer Online web mapping is fast becoming the de f...

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