Own Your Map

This week the topics that were covered were map creation and design skills. I learned the difference between data view and layout view in ArcMap and what tools were available to work in both of them. We learned about and added the essential map elements, how to build definition queries, as well as editing metadata. The following is a map showing essential map elements:




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