{"id":76741,"date":"2017-04-28T12:03:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T12:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/firefly-basemap-starter-pack-for-arcgis-pro\/"},"modified":"2018-03-26T21:12:48","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T21:12:48","slug":"firefly-basemap-starter-pack-for-arcgis-pro","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/mapping\/mapping\/firefly-basemap-starter-pack-for-arcgis-pro","title":{"rendered":"Firefly basemap starter pack for ArcGIS Pro"},"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":[23201],"industry":[],"product":[36561],"class_list":["post-76741","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","tag-cartographic-design","product-arcgis-pro"],"acf":{"short_description":"Whoa, a Firefly basemap just went live! Check it!\n\n\n\n\tVisit this ArcGIS resource page to download an ArcGIS Pro project with all of the f...","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Whoa, a Firefly basemap just went live! <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.esri.com\/esri\/arcgis\/2017\/06\/28\/firefly-basemap\/\" target=\"_blank\">Check it<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-78798 noIMGBackground\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/04\/FireFlyThumbs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"153\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/nation.maps.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=91ab0648809a48d2a6814d166c7e2a8d\" target=\"_blank\">this ArcGIS resource page<\/a> to download an ArcGIS Pro project with all of the files and styles packaged up for a firefly basemap.<\/li>\n<li>Grab <a href=\"https:\/\/nation.maps.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=cd048203333f42869c84908884dae411\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> firefly imagery set for point symbology.<\/li>\n<li>And <a href=\"https:\/\/nation.maps.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=c9a4a06a102e4d6c8f5dbea932633172\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>, alternate, warm-hue, set of symbols.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Firefly?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What in the world is firefly cartography?<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/nation.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/Cascade\/index.html?appid=bf439954e2b64d418aedd2fe11217d83\">This story map<\/a> will give you the lay of the land.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Firefly cartography?\" href=\"https:\/\/nation.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/Cascade\/index.html?appid=bf439954e2b64d418aedd2fe11217d83\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-78292 noIMGBackground\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/04\/WhatIsIt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1901\" height=\"974\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How do you do it?<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/nation.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/Cascade\/index.html?appid=3e04cf33cd9747f2b553e14b92a188b9\">Here&#8217;s how<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Click to visit this firefly How-To...\" href=\"https:\/\/nation.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/Cascade\/index.html?appid=3e04cf33cd9747f2b553e14b92a188b9\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-78293 noIMGBackground\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/04\/HowTo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1901\" height=\"974\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ok, now we&#8217;ve got that all squared away, here is a resource for ArcGIS Pro users to get rolling on some firefly cartography. It is a mega-huge <a href=\"https:\/\/nation.maps.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=91ab0648809a48d2a6814d166c7e2a8d\" target=\"_blank\">ArcGIS Pro project download<\/a> (355MB what??) with all of the NASA imagery packaged up into it. So get the coffee maker rolling, hit download, and kick back. When you open it up, it will look like this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Intro.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-78287\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Intro.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1909\" height=\"885\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Side note: If you don&#8217;t have the <a href=\"http:\/\/pro.arcgis.com\/en\/pro-app\/get-started\/set-the-display-language.htm#ESRI_SECTION1_E324FADE5AB345288FD0F6712E0E8282\" target=\"_blank\">dark theme<\/a>\u00a0(cue Vader breathing) activated in ArcGIS Pro, you are missing out on some sweet sweet goodness. So much easier on the eyes. If you are designing visual products then a muted, receding, interface like this is a helpful context that promotes the priority of content over interface. Plus if you&#8217;re working on a screen all day your eyeballs will thank you.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Imagery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ok, so what is this basemap made of? It is a set of cloud-free image mosaics from NASA&#8217;s Blue Marble. The resolution holds up to about 1:2,000,000, so it&#8217;s great for global and regional maps.<\/p>\n<p>A hallmark of a firefly map is the dark, desaturated imagery basemap. The easiest, fastest, way I&#8217;ve found to do this (you could probably use a <a href=\"http:\/\/pro.arcgis.com\/en\/pro-app\/help\/data\/imagery\/raster-functions.htm\" target=\"_blank\">raster function<\/a>, alternatively) is just make two copies of the imagery. The bottom layer is set to black and white and the top layer set to color. Here are the settings I used:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DialogBW.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-78288 noIMGBackground\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DialogBW.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"571\" height=\"838\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DialogColor.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-78289 noIMGBackground\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DialogColor.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"571\" height=\"838\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They look like this in the viewer. The group of black\/white images I set to 40% transparent&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/04\/InBW.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-78290 noIMGBackground\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/04\/InBW.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1909\" height=\"885\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The color images have a transparency of 90%. Yeah, you can barely see them on their own, but they paint in just a bit of color for helpful (maybe dramatic) context over the gray-scale imagery.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/04\/InColor.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-78291 noIMGBackground\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/04\/InColor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1909\" height=\"885\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Vignette<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Finally, I use a vignette layer to mute the bright whites of the polar regions. This vignette helps draw the eye into the map and frames the overlain thematic content in a sizzling sort of way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Vignette.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-78294 noIMGBackground\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Vignette.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1909\" height=\"885\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I did not include a vignette for the left\/right edges of the map because that falls apart depending on the projection used. Please, oh please, do not leave your map in this default equirectangular projection. Here&#8217;s a European Lambert projection, for what it&#8217;s worth&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Projected.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-78295 noIMGBackground\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Projected.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1909\" height=\"885\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bonus Track<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve come this far, there is a reasonable chance you are going to <a href=\"https:\/\/nation.maps.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=91ab0648809a48d2a6814d166c7e2a8d\" target=\"_blank\">download this ArcGIS Pro project<\/a> and start cranking out firefly maps. In that case, you might like the head start of using <a href=\"https:\/\/nation.maps.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=cd048203333f42869c84908884dae411\" target=\"_blank\">these glowing green images<\/a> as point symbols; or <a href=\"https:\/\/nation.maps.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=c9a4a06a102e4d6c8f5dbea932633172\" target=\"_blank\">these warm-hue versions<\/a>. Have fun!<\/p>\n<p>Happy Firefly Mapping,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/John_M_Nelson\" target=\"_blank\">John\u00a0<\/a><\/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. 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