Learn Best Practices For Making And Sharing High Quality Maps

Next week ESRI will be hosting a seminar which will explain how to use map templates and other resources.

ESRI will host a free, live training seminar to demonstrate how to use these valuable templates and other resources. Best Practices for Working with Map Templates will air at www.esri.com/lts on Thursday, March 4, at 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., and 3:00 p.m. Pacific standard time. Cartographers, geographic information system (GIS) professionals, and ArcGIS Desktop users of all experience levels are encouraged to attend. Some familiarity with ArcGIS Desktop is recommended.

Using the cartography, sample data, and tools provided in the templates, this seminar explores techniques and best practices to integrate one’s own data with a map template and share the resulting work with others.

Attendees with learn:

• How to access map templates
• What types of resources are included with a map template
• Considerations to take into account when configuring data for use with a map template
• How to create a template-based map that showcases their work
• Best practices for sharing their work

ESRI will also be hosting a few half-day seminar, Better Ways to Design and Share Maps, this spring. This seminar will be held in a number of locations around the US. Information on this can be found here: http://www.esri.com/bettermaps

At the half-day seminar, attendees will learn tips, best practices, and more efficient workflows for making maps using the maps, data, and services readily available in ArcGIS. They will also find out about valuable information and tools available from the online ArcGIS Resource Centers and learn how to share maps with colleagues and the GIS community.

We will be working to try and bring this half-day seminar to New Zealand. This will obviously be dependant on demand. I’ll post more information on this if we do decide to bring this to New Zealand.

In the meanwhile be sure to attend the free live training seminar which will provide a great insight into using templates and other available resources to create top-quality, beautiful maps for use in print, online or mobile applications.

A press release around this live training seminar can be found here: http://www.esri.com/news/…