esri ds map book walkthrough
A very special post today, for users of ESRI's Developer Sample Map Book Application
DSMapbook – How I made it work
This is some step-by-step action for using esri ds mapbook or esri ds map book. Good luck.
Open ArcCatalog
Navigate to your personal geodatabase that holds all of the shapefiles you are using to make the mapbook.
Create a new polygon feature class, call it “INDEX_LAYER”. Give it projection information. You will create four fields in the new feature class. One called “GRID_ID” as a text field, “SCALE” as a long integer field, “ROW_NUMBER” as a long integer field, and “COLUMN NUMBER” as a long integer field.
Save and continue.
Open ArcView.
Add all the data layers you need for your mapbook.
Create in layout view, the layout template that each mapbook page will use. Each page will have the same layout.
Save and continue.
Add the “INDEX_LAYER” dataset.
Zoom out/in your map view so that you can see the extent of what you want the mapbook to cover.
Click “Create/Update Map Grids”
Set your scale (mine is 2900, do some experimenting, this is the scale that each mapbook page will be in) I also use “current extent” for the coordinates.
Use the default on the next two screens.
Click Finish.
Save and continue
Click on “Create Map Series”
The detail data frame will be “Layers”
The index layer is the layer you named “INDEX_LAYER”
The field that specifies the page name is “GRID_ID”
Choose use all of the tiles (you can de-select them later)
Use the default on the next screen
Click Finish
Save and continue
ArcView will now calculate your mapbook. On the mapbook tab at the bottom of your table of contents, there will now be one page for each page of your map book. This is a very bare bones description, lots of other tweaks and layout stuff can be done using DSMapbook, but this covers the basics to get you started without a lot of the headaches I encountered.
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Jen Michaelis is an American artist, illustrator, author, and blogger living in Sacramento, California. Michaelis' best known work is the zine "You Are Here", but her work has also been featured in collections such as "I Keee You!! A Collection of Overheards" by Atomic Books as well as an exhibitor at the Alternative Press Expo and the San Francisco Zine Festival.