Learn To Use Map Templates, A New Resource From ESRI

With the recent addition of the ArcGIS Map Templates Resource Centre, ESRI now offers map templates as a new resource to help ArcGIS software users make great-looking, professional-quality maps for print, the Web and mobile applications. To complement this, ESRI will be hosting a live training seminar which will allow users to tune into a free live training seminar about using templates to improve mapmaking skills.

Getting Started with Map Templates, a live training seminar airing at www.esri.com/lts on Thursday, June 25, 2009, will walk geographic information system (GIS) professionals and cartographers through the process of working with the templates. The times will be 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., and 3:00 p.m. (Pacific daylight time).

The seminar’s presenter will explain how to get started using the templates and how to adapt the cartographic and data designs to other maps.

Attendees will also learn about

• How to download map templates from the ESRI Resource Center at http://resources.esri.com/maptemplates
• What the map template kits contain
• How to use data with a map template
• Different kinds of map templates (e.g., street, topographic, and local government maps)
• Publishing map templates as mapping services via ArcGIS Online

Mapmakers from any organization who want to create professional-grade maps will find this live training seminar interesting and useful. GIS professionals and cartographers who are familiar with ArcGIS Desktop software and make maps on a regular basis will benefit.

This press release can be found here: http://www.esri.com/news/…