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By Aileen Buckley, Mapping Center Lead<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Three<\/p>\n

I was looking through the list of our blog posts, and I thought you might be interested to see which ones have gotten the most “hits”. I’ll list them here, but keep in mind that some of our older posts get higher numbers of hits because, well, they’ve just been around longer! But I think this list also helps us learn what you want to hear about. If anything in the list generates an idea about something you would like us to blog about, please send us comments to this post so we can hear from you. So, here we go\u2026<\/p>\n

And the winners are\u2026(blog posts that have had over 10,000 hits)\u2026in order of appearance:<\/p>\n

Choosing the best way to indicate map scale<\/a>
\n17,240 Views
\nby: MappingCenterTeam
\nAug 06 2007<\/p>\n

Tips for exporting to Adobe Illustrator format (AI) so CYMK colors are maintained
\n<\/a>11,656 Views
\nby: mlaw
\nSep 20 2007<\/p>\n

Creating Street Name Indexes
\n<\/a>10,167 Views
\nby: cfrye
\nNov 08 2007<\/p>\n

Cartographic Design: Inset Maps
\n<\/a>16,688 Views
\nby: abuckley
\nMar 04 2008<\/p>\n

Aspect-Slope Map
\n<\/a>16,089 Views
\nby: abuckley
\nMay 22 2008<\/p>\n

What I wish I had known about Model Builder before I started using it
\n<\/a>11,460 Views
\nby: abuckley
\nFeb 19 2009<\/p>\n

The Buffer Wizard in ArcMap
\n<\/a>11,597 Views
\nby: marg3002
\nJul 15 2009<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Honorable mentions\u2026(blog posts that are nearing the 10,000 hits mark):<\/p>\n

About geographic transformations and how to choose the right one
\n<\/a>9,832 Views
\nby: abuckley
\nMay 06 2009<\/p>\n

How can you tell what map scales are shown for online maps?
\n<\/a>9364 Views
\nby: abuckley
\nMar 19 2009<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And just to make it an even 10\u2026(a blog post that is “waiting in the wings” to become a winner):<\/p>\n

Creating a legend for hypsometrically tinted shaded relief
\n<\/a>8,959 Views
\nby: cfrye
\nSep 07 2007<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Again, we hope you’ll send us some ideas for things you’d like us to blog about. In the meantime, you might find some of these posts as interesting or useful as others have!<\/p>\n"}],"authors":[{"ID":4331,"user_firstname":"Aileen","user_lastname":"Buckley","nickname":"Aileen Buckley","user_nicename":"abuckley","display_name":"Aileen Buckley","user_email":"abuckley@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2018-03-02 00:15:57","user_description":"Dr. Aileen Buckley is a cartographer researcher and Senior Principal GIS Engineer at Esri. I'm on the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World Team, making, writing, and talking about maps. I'm also involved in a number of cartographic societies and association, and I'm the chair of the ICA Ethics in Cartography Commission.","user_avatar":""}]},"yoast_head":"\nCurious? 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