{"id":178451,"date":"2012-03-01T22:23:24","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T06:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=178451"},"modified":"2018-12-18T11:50:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T19:50:08","slug":"vegetation-map-inspires-a-style-with-great-colors","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-desktop\/mapping\/vegetation-map-inspires-a-style-with-great-colors","title":{"rendered":"Vegetation map inspires a style with great colors"},"author":4371,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[22941],"tags":[38211,30791,38411,28711,31301],"industry":[],"product":[36991],"class_list":["post-178451","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","tag-arcgis-methods","tag-color","tag-mapping-center","tag-styles","tag-symbology","product-arcgis-desktop"],"acf":{"short_description":"Vegetation Map - thumbnail\r\n\r\nBecause we love the colors used on the vegetation map in the The National Atlas of the United States of America","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/downloads2.esri.com\/MappingCenter2007\/blog\/Feb12Images\/VegMap_Thumb.png\" alt=\"Vegetation Map - thumbnail\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"5\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Because we love the colors used on the\u00a0<a title=\"Vegetation map\" href=\"http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/map_item.pl?data=\/home\/www\/data\/gmd\/\/gmd370m\/g3701m\/g3701gm\/gct00013\/ca000069.jp2&amp;style=setlmap&amp;itemLink=r?ammem\/gmd:@filreq%28@field%28NUMBER+@band%28g3701gm+gct00013%29%29+@field%28COLLID+setlmap%29%29&amp;title=The%20national%20atlas%20of%20th\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vegetation map<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0<a title=\"National Atlas of United States of America\" href=\"http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/ammem\/gmdhtml\/census3.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The National Atlas of the United States of America<\/a>, one of our cartographers put together a style with these colors so you can use them on your maps, too. You can download the style from here on Mapping Center\u2019s ArcGIS Resources &gt;\u00a0<a title=\"Mapping Center: ArcGIS Resources - Styles\" href=\"http:\/\/mappingcenter.esri.com\/index.cfm?fa=arcgisResources.gateway\">Styles page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a title=\"National Atlas of the United States of America\" href=\"http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/ammem\/gmdhtml\/census3.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Atlas of the United States of America<\/a>\u00a0was published by the US Geological Survey (USGS) in 1970 and edited by Arch C. Gerlach (figure 1).<span id=\"more-3805\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/downloads2.esri.com\/MappingCenter2007\/blog\/Feb12Images\/VegMap_AtlasCover_Blue.gif\" alt=\"Vegetation Map - Cover\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"5\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Figure 1. The cover of<\/em>\u00a0The National Atlas of the United States of America<\/p>\n<p>The map of vegetation (figure 2) was compiled by A. W. Kuchler, of the University of Kansas, in 1966.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/downloads2.esri.com\/MappingCenter2007\/blog\/Feb12Images\/VegMap_VegMap.png\" alt=\"Vegetation Map\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"5\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Figure 2. The vegetation map in the atlas<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This 1:7,500,000-scale map, in the Albers equal area projection, has 119 vegetation classes for needleleaf, broadleaf, and combined broadleaf\/needleleaf forests; shrubs; grasslands; and shrub\/grasslands combinations; and grassland\/forest combinations. Vegetation areas were symbolized using the colors in this style along with, for some classes, overlaid pattern fills (figure 3).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/downloads2.esri.com\/MappingCenter2007\/blog\/Feb12Images\/VegMap_Legend.png\" alt=\"Vegetation Map - Legend\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"5\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Figure 3. A portion of the legend showing the colors and pattern fills used to symbolize the vegetation classes<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The 1970 edition of the\u00a0<em>The National Atlas of the United States of America<\/em>\u00a0is out of print; however, the\u00a0<a title=\"Library of Congress\" href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Library of Congress<\/a>\u00a0(LOC) has digitized (at very high quality and in full color) and republished online the entire contents of the atlas. Follow\u00a0<a title=\"The 1970 National Atlas of the United States of America\" href=\"http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/ammem\/gmdhtml\/census3.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this link<\/a>\u00a0to see the atlas contents and download the images. Click the atlas image at the right of the page, and on the new page that appears, click the atlas image at the left. In the viewer, you will be able to view all the pages in the atlas. The vegetation map is image 69. Note that image 70 is the vegetation map for the state of Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>This atlas is one of more than 4.5 million items held by the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress. The LOC combines its content with that of other libraries and archives from around the globe to make over 5 million historical items available online.<\/p>\n<p>Citation:<\/p>\n<p>United States Department of the Interior Geological Survey. 1970.\u00a0<em>The National Atlas of the United States of America<\/em>. Washington D.C.: USGS.<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks to Michael Dangermond, Cartographic Product Engineer, for his work in compiling this style.<\/em><\/p>\n"}],"authors":[{"ID":4371,"user_firstname":"Jaynya","user_lastname":"Richards","nickname":"Jaynya Richards","user_nicename":"jaynya","display_name":"Jaynya","user_email":"jrichards@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2018-03-02 00:15:59","user_description":"","user_avatar":"<img alt='' src='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/31ccf0e4e338d8eabaafcc5bc86cf9df5e085b06de3bb617e9fa640a4764e91d?s=96&#038;d=blank&#038;r=g' srcset='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/31ccf0e4e338d8eabaafcc5bc86cf9df5e085b06de3bb617e9fa640a4764e91d?s=192&#038;d=blank&#038;r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-96 photo' height='96' width='96' loading='lazy' decoding='async'\/>"}],"related_articles":"","card_image":false,"wide_image":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - 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