{"id":1586692,"date":"2022-05-27T10:49:12","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T17:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=1586692"},"modified":"2022-05-27T10:49:12","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T17:49:12","slug":"make-waves","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-pro\/mapping\/make-waves","title":{"rendered":"Make Waves"},"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":[26451,689091,28711,31301,37771],"industry":[],"product":[36561],"class_list":["post-1586692","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","tag-cartography","tag-oceanography","tag-styles","tag-symbology","tag-water","product-arcgis-pro"],"acf":{"short_description":"How to add a wavy fill texture to your water features in ArcGIS Pro","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>A while back my family went to see the animated film, <em>Raya and the Last Dragon<\/em>. It got mixed reviews from the Nelsons but what really caught my eye was the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/GrCj9zKZ3ZI?t=83\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">illustrative cartographic scene<\/a> used to introduce the back story. It used a charming paper puppet theater aesthetic; the wavy water patterns were especially beautiful. When you are a map nerd it&#8217;s the on-screen cartography that tends to make an impact.<\/p>\n<p>Then, this morning, I was looking at my office mate Pepper&#8217;s collar. The blue ribs reminded me of that Raya map and I wondered how readily something in that vein could me styled up in ArcGIS Pro. 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there&#8217;s no reason water has to hog all the fun, try out different colors and wave patterns for terrestrial textures.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":1586812,"id":1586812,"title":"WavesRockies","filename":"WavesRockies.jpg","filesize":203385,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2022\/05\/WavesRockies.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-pro\/mapping\/make-waves\/wavesrockies","alt":"Triangular wave mountain texture","author":"6971","description":"","caption":"","name":"wavesrockies","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":1586692,"date":"2022-05-27 17:32:26","modified":"2022-05-27 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the gist if you are pressed for time and\/or can&#8217;t bear to listen to my nasally Midwestern narration&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Apply a hatched fill type<\/li>\n<li>Make the hatch lines horizontal<\/li>\n<li>Make the hatch lines pretty thick, like 20 pts<\/li>\n<li>Apply a spacing distance of less than, or equal to, the line thickness<\/li>\n<li>Dig into the line symbol (&#8220;format line symbol&#8221;) and make it a gradient<\/li>\n<li>Give the line symbol a &#8220;wave&#8221; effect (in the structure tab)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Or just watch here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8230;<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"youtube","start_time":"0","end_time":"","youtube_video_url":"<iframe title=\"Make Waves With Your Map\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_wnwddd8ksc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" 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It&#8217;s easy and fun and might be just what your map needs to give it a little bit of watery goodness.<\/p>\n<p>Love, John and Pepper<\/p>\n"}],"authors":[{"ID":6971,"user_firstname":"John","user_lastname":"Nelson","nickname":"John Nelson","user_nicename":"j_nelson","display_name":"John Nelson","user_email":"John_Nelson@esri.com","user_url":"http:\/\/www.adventuresinmapping.com","user_registered":"2018-03-02 00:19:05","user_description":"I have far too much fun looking for ways to understand and present data visually, hopefully driving product strategy and engaging users. I work in the ArcGIS Living Atlas team at Esri, pushing and pulling data in all sorts of absurd ways and then sharing the process. I also design user experiences for maps and apps.\r\nWhen I'm not doing those things, I'm chasing around toddlers and wrangling chickens, and generally getting into other ad-hoc adventures. 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