{"id":526872,"date":"2019-07-15T17:40:34","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T00:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&p=526872"},"modified":"2024-06-20T12:42:14","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T19:42:14","slug":"a-rock-climbers-paradise-calculating-crags-within-three-hours-using-maps-for-adobe","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/apps\/mapping\/a-rock-climbers-paradise-calculating-crags-within-three-hours-using-maps-for-adobe","title":{"rendered":"A Rock Climber’s Paradise: Calculating crags within three hours using Maps for Adobe"},"author":6291,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[37151,22941],"tags":[30901,26451,30111,43731,30921],"industry":[],"product":[36591,36741,36551],"class_list":["post-526872","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design-planning","category-mapping","tag-adobe","tag-cartography","tag-data-visualization","tag-drive-time-areas","tag-illustrator","product-apps","product-maps-for-adobecc","product-arcgis-online"],"acf":{"short_description":"Rock climbing areas within a three-hour drive time using the newly available tools in ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud\u00a9","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Rock climbing and mapping<\/a> are two of my greatest passions, and it is a true joy when I get to fuse those two obsessions into a map focused on rock climbing. This 12 x 13.5 inch monochrome map shows rock climbing areas within a one-, two-, and three-hour drive of Canada’s beautiful west coast metropolis, Vancouver, British Columbia.\u00a0 To differentiate between crags and climbing areas within and outside the three-hour zone, the crags outside the zone have been visually subdued1<\/sup>. The drive time polygons also all use the same hue, differentiating in opacity.<\/p>\n

In this post, I’ll\u00a0share the steps I followed to generate these drive time areas from Vancouver, B.C. all within Adobe Illustrator via Esri’s mapping tool created for Adobe Creative Cloud\u00a9<\/sup>. For information on some of the aesthetic design choices for this rock climbing map, check out\u00a0this post<\/a>\u00a0on my personal site.<\/p>\n

Esri’s ArcGIS Maps for Adobe<\/a>\u00a0Creative Cloud\u00a0just released version 1.4, which includes a lot of new features<\/a>\u00a0including ArcGIS Online’s\u00a0Drive Time Areas<\/a>\u00a0analysis tool, allowing users to calculate travel times and distances from a particular point or set of points. There are many possible applications for this useful feature. For example, users can create polygons indicating how far an emergency vehicle can travel in 10 minutes from its dispatch location. Now that this travel time analysis tool has been added to Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud\u00a0(M4CC), users can add these polygons to their map inside Adobe Illustrator. In fact, there are many different types of travel analyses mappers can do, including pedestrian, trucking, rural driving, and more. You can find out more about Esri’s travel analysis tool\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":548672,"id":548672,"title":"Full map, small, Climbing areas within three hours of Vancouver, B.C.","filename":"blogSmallMapversion.jpg","filesize":254918,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/blogSmallMapversion.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/apps\/mapping\/a-rock-climbers-paradise-calculating-crags-within-three-hours-using-maps-for-adobe\/lavender_08_finalizations-3","alt":"Full map, small, Climbing areas within three hours of Vancouver, B.C.","author":"6291","description":"Full map, small, Climbing areas within three hours of Vancouver, B.C. by Sarah Bell","caption":"","name":"lavender_08_finalizations-3","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":526872,"date":"2019-06-27 23:56:10","modified":"2019-06-27 23:56:49","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":1000,"height":1130,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/blogSmallMapversion-213x200.jpg","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/blogSmallMapversion.jpg","medium-width":231,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/blogSmallMapversion.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":868,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/blogSmallMapversion.jpg","large-width":956,"large-height":1080,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/blogSmallMapversion.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1130,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/blogSmallMapversion.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1130,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/blogSmallMapversion-412x465.jpg","card_image-width":412,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/blogSmallMapversion-956x1080.jpg","wide_image-width":956,"wide_image-height":1080}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

1. Draw the mapboard<\/h2>\n

For my rock climbing map, I wanted the largest drive time polygon (three hours from Vancouver) to help form my map extent, which users set up in M4CC by drawing the mapboard<\/em>. Drawing a mapboard that is supposed to encompass a three-hour drive time from a particular spot takes some familiarity with the region. You cannot know exactly how far you can travel for three hours in any direction without first running the Drive Time tool. And you cannot run the Drive Time tool without first drawing the mapboard. Luckily, you can adjust the mapboard exactly where you want anytime in the map-making process before you sync\/download the map. So, if the map’s extent needs to be adjusted after running the Drive Time tool, that’s easy to do. Remember once you sync\/download2<\/sup> your map, the map extent cannot be changed. You can read more about the M4CC Mapboard tool here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2. Add the data from which the travel times will be generated<\/h2>\n

You need some starting-point data (yes, it needs to be point data)\u00a0to run the Drive Time tool. I used the great\u00a0Add Places<\/a> feature in M4CC Compilation window to get the Vancouver point to run the travel time tool. To do this, once I finished drawing my mapboard in step 1 I went to the Compilation window, and then:<\/p>\n