Here are my deliverables for this week's lab.
First is the map that I created using Adobe Illustrator:
And here is my Process Summary:
Process Summary Description
1. Printed the “Tools Panel Overview” for Illustrator for future use
2. Started Illustrator and experimented with some of the tools presented (I have no experience with Adobe Illustrator)
3. Worked with the “Fill” and “Stroke” tools
4. Learned how to constrain proportions by use of the Shift Key
5. Learned how to resize shapes
6. Learned to rotate shapes (and identify anchor corner)
7. Learned how to set more options for shape tools
8. Learned about the Pencil Tool and preferences
9. Experimented with the Pen tool to see how it differs from the Pencil Tool
10. Worked with Layer Tool (Note: There is a problem with the graphic on the top of page 11 of the Lab Exercise)
11. Experimented with arranging layers. Similar to other programs I have used, so not totally foreign
12. Learned about the Text tools
13. Amazed by the “Type on a Path” tool. (It doesn’t take much to amaze me).
14. Extracted Lab Data out to S:\Cartography\Illustrator\cities_feb04
15. Extracted Lab Data out to S:\Cartography\Illustrator\cntbnd_jun11
16. Started ArcMap
17. Added the Cities and County Boundaries to the map
18. Switched to Layout View and zoomed to extent
19. Inserted Neatline with a border width of 3
20. Added a Scale Bar and set it to show “useful” delineations (50, 100, 200)
21. Added a Legend as instructed
22. Modified the symbology to show “Cities” and “County Boundary”
23. Added a border to the Legend. Seeing the “gap” function there answers a question I had about how to do that in previous labs.
24. Exported the map out to an Adobe Illustrator file
25. Saw the following message
26. Selected “Update”
27. Selected “Fit On Screen”
28. Opened Layer Tool
29. Named the Neatline
30. Added the “Legend” and “North Arrow” Layers
31. Moved the North Arrow to its layer
32. Moved the Legend related items to the “Legend” Layer
33. At this point my Layers look like this:
34. Renamed the “City Group” and the “County Group” and changed their color
35. Moved the Cities Group and the Scale Bar Group to be under the County Group. Looks like this will definitely take some practice in future labs
36. Deleted the non essential layers (Cites, Scale Bar, and “Other 2”)
37. After rearranging the layers and renaming them for clarity. My layers now look like this:
38. I tried to do the direct selection tool and resize, but didn’t have any success
39. I posted a message in the discussion forum to see if anyone else was having a similar problem so I could learn from them.
40. After checking the forum I determined how to properly resize the boundary
41. Added the Text Elements and put it in the proper layer in Illustrator
42. Exported out to Jpeg and updated Blog and DropBox
And finally here is my metadata:
| Layer | Data Type | Publication Information: Who Created The Data? | Time Period Data Is Relevant | Spatial Horizontal Coordinate System | Attribute Values |
| Cities_feb04 | Point | UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA GEOPLAN CENTER | revised version of the December 2003 map layer | Albers Conical Equal Area (Florida Geographic Data Library) | 1116 Attributes |
| Cntbnd_jul11 | Polygon | FGDL | June 2011 (update of the FGDL Version 2003 County Boundaries dataset) | Albers Conical Equal Area [Florida Geographic Data Library] | 67 Attributes |
