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Creating Your Presentation
Your final step is to get your work ready for presentation. Making a
good map requires an artistic eye for details and skill.
The following slides will help you to create your final map product.
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Making a Map from your Data
You are now ready to
produce a map of your
school.
1. Open up your project
and make sure your
view is showing what
you would like to have
appear in your map.
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2. Go to the View menu then
select “Layout View.”
3. Your layout view will appear
similar to this example.
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4. Go to the file menu and
select Page and Print Setup…
In the setup, select Landscape
under Paper and Map Page
Size. Click OK.
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5. You can re-size your map area by clicking on the map image
and clicking and dragging at the “handles.” You can re-position
the map area by clicking and dragging the whole image.
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Designing Your Map
There are five essential elements which should accompany your map data in
the layout. These elements have a visual hierarchy of importance. For
example you don’t want to use a large north arrow that keeps people from
looking at your title or legend.
1. Title: Pick words that accurately describe what your map is
about. If the data you are mapping could change then
including the date might be a good idea.
2. Legend: A key that explains the symbols on your map.
3. Scale: An indication of distance measurements on the map.
4. North Arrow: Shows direction.
5. Source: Where did the data come from and the name of the
person or people who created the map.
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Text Tool
Font Tools
6. To place a title, or any text information, click the text tool at the
bottom, place the cursor at the desired location and begin typing.
Change the font from the font tool along the bottom of the map.
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7. To edit text, double-click on the text you wish to edit.
When the properties window pops-up, click the Text tab.
You may edit your text here. Click OK.
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8. Before creating a legend, you will need to give your feature classes
a sensible name. For example, “parking_” does not make sense in
a legend. Double click on the feature class name in the legend.
Click on the General tab and type in the new name. Click OK
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9. After you have changed the
layer names to your liking, click
on the Insert menu and go to
Legend.
10. When the legend menu pops
up, make sure you have the map
layers you wish to show under
legend items. You do not need
your image name in the legend.
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11. You may use the defaults
here if you like.
12. You may choose a border,
background color or drop
shadow. Or use the defaults if
you like.
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13. On the next few screens you may use the defaults if you like or
select your own colors and sizes.
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You are not finished yet!
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14. To place a north arrow, click the
insert menu and select North Arrow.
15. Select the north arrow
of your choice and click
OK. Re-size if needed and
place it where you wish.
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16. Prior to placing your scale bar, make sure
your map units are set to meters. Double
click the “Layers” label in the table of
contents. Click the General tab and
change the map units AND display units
to meters.
17. To place a scale bar,
click the insert menu and
select scale bar.
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18. To place a scale bar, click
the insert menu and select
scale bar. Place the scale bar
on the map so you can see it,
but remember it is towards
the bottom of the visual
hierarchy list .
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19. You may also place a logo or other picture in the map.
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20. A neatline is a border to “contain,” your map.
Depending on how you design your map it might be a good
idea to include a neatline so that your map and its elements
are kept together. An example of this would be if you were
going to insert your map into a chapter in a book and had
text flowing around it.
By now you should be familiar with the “Insert” menu.
See if you can figure out how to insert, format, and place a
neatline around your map. Play around with the line weight
(thickness) so that it contains your elements, but does not
overpower the visual hierarchy.
Don’t forget
to save
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21. Once you are satisfied with your final product, export your
map to a .jpg file.
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22. Open a new Power Point file and on the first slide, write the
following information:
The name of your school
The date you completed this project
The names of the students who worked on the project.
For the next slide, insert your map .jpg to cover the entire slide.
For the final slide, cut and paste your pie chart.
Your Power Point project should resemble the following three slides.
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Center High School
School Mapping Project
August 23, 2004
By: Rupert Giles and Willow Rosenberg
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Land Use at Center High School
21%
Athletic
0%
Academic
1%
Administration
7%
Parking Lot
1%
12%
58%
Assembly/Bleacher
Performance
Other
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Save your PowerPoint, containing your map and your land use graph,
with your school name as it’s title (example: center_high.ppt).
Send the PowerPoint as an e-mail attachment to Malcolm Williamson
([email protected]) and Fiona Trewby ([email protected] ).
They will notify you if anything additional is needed, or confirm that it
has been accepted.
Congratulations! You have completed a real GIS/GPS mapping project
that can be used as a starting point for many other projects around
your school and community. We hope that you’ve had some fun as
you’ve learned, and we hope to see you at the various training
workshops and at the EAST Conference.
Best regards from your EAST Geospatial Support Team
Bonnie Brown
Jack Cothren
Fiona Trewby
Paxton Roberts
Angie Smith
Peter Smith
Malcolm Williamson
Benjamin Gilley
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