{"id":1279842,"date":"2021-06-30T13:01:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T20:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=1279842"},"modified":"2021-06-30T13:04:48","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T20:04:48","slug":"x-ray-cartography-in-arcgis-online","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/mapping\/x-ray-cartography-in-arcgis-online","title":{"rendered":"X-Ray cartography in ArcGIS Online"},"author":6971,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[22941],"tags":[572002,720281,26451,32661,26391],"industry":[],"product":[36581,36551],"class_list":["post-1279842","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","tag-arcgis-living-atlas","tag-blend-modes","tag-cartography","tag-thematic-mapping","tag-world-imagery","product-arcgis-living-atlas","product-arcgis-online"],"acf":{"short_description":"How to use blend modes and data-driven transparency to make a thematic map with imagery instead of regular old colors.","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>Did you ever wake up with a start from a fitful sleep and say to yourself in a moment of nocturnal lucidity, &#8220;instead of using a color gradient for making thematic maps, what if I painted it in with an imagery gradient?&#8221; I&#8217;m sure you have, because we all have the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VlucWfTUo1A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">intro segment<\/a> of Bob Ross&#8217; Joy of Painting burned into our collective conscious. 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So high-population areas are more opaque, low-population areas are more transparent.<\/p>\n<p>2:11 Adding the World Imagery map tiles as a layer.<\/p>\n<p>2:42 Quick map inventory: imagery, population-opacity tract polygons, and a basemap.<\/p>\n<p>2:56 Create a new group and add the two layers (imagery and tracts) to it. This ensures that the next step is only applied to these layers and not the basemap.<\/p>\n<p>3:11 Give the tract layer a &#8220;destination atop&#8221; blend mode, which is like a cookie-cutter, but it honors the transparency.<\/p>\n<p>3:30 The big reveal.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to see the resulting map, check it out <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/mapviewer\/index.html?webmap=a1368c9afdc34b3696bea34266d39878\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And that&#8217;s where we can end it. Unless, of course, you are feeling dangerous.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This x-ray vision into imagery is fun&#8230;but what if we do a weird thing where we make the basemap black and white imagery? The result is a grayscale world where higher population density <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Q-4pnXcqyt0?t=56\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">brings more color<\/a> to the imagery. Like this&#8230;<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":1279932,"id":1279932,"title":"Seattle","filename":"Seattle.jpg","filesize":398695,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Seattle.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-living-atlas\/mapping\/x-ray-cartography-in-arcgis-online\/seattle","alt":"Population density represented by increased color saturation.","author":"6971","description":"","caption":"","name":"seattle","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":1279842,"date":"2021-06-30 19:48:36","modified":"2021-06-30 19:49:10","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1030,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Seattle-213x200.jpg","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Seattle.jpg","medium-width":464,"medium-height":249,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Seattle.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":412,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Seattle.jpg","large-width":1920,"large-height":1030,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Seattle-1536x824.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":824,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Seattle.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1030,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Seattle-826x443.jpg","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":443,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Seattle.jpg","wide_image-width":1920,"wide_image-height":1030}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Seattle.jpg"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Here&#8217;s how:<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"youtube","start_time":"0","end_time":"","youtube_video_url":"<iframe title=\"X-Ray Cartography Pt 2: Data-Driven Imagery Color Saturation\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8zzELBZFLC0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>0:00 Unnecessary re-cap.<\/p>\n<p>0:22 Playing around with other basemaps.<\/p>\n<p>0:39 What about an imagery basemap? Oh right, now we can&#8217;t really see the data-driven imagery layer anymore because they all <em>blend<\/em> together. Wait a second what if we&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>0:50 &#8230;give the map a black background color&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>1:00 &#8230;and apply a &#8220;luminosity&#8221; blend mode to the imagery basemap so it becomes grayscale.<\/p>\n<p>1:07 Now we&#8217;re painting with saturation!<\/p>\n<p>And that is how you can make an x-ray vision sort of map that uses color saturation to represent data. You can play with the map made above, <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/mapviewer\/index.html?webmap=63f468f5877f410bafc5a867d091fecd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. Try it out on all sorts of feature layers and basemaps. It&#8217;s a blast. 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