Working with Text and Maps

Type advice for maps

Cool Text Generator

Identify Font

9 tools to find font combinations

Masking Halos


Free Font Downloads:

• fontriver
• fontspace
• dafont
• downgraf fonts
• abduzeedo fonts
• fontfabric
• google webfonts
• fontdiner
• font river
• font squirrel
• freetypography.com
• behance
• glukfonts
• designwoop (2)
• lost type
• theleagueofmoveabletype
• naldzgraphics-fonts
• theultralinx-fontsSimply the Best Fonts
• searchfreefonts
• 1001 Free Fonts
• Open Font Library
• urban fonts

Working with Color and Maps

Creating new colors in ArcMap

Color Picker Tool in ArcMap

Colors you didn't know existed

Brand Colors

Color Brewer for Maps

•  Download Color Brewer style

Crayola Colors

Wikipedia List of Colors 

Variety of online color palette resources:
*ones that I particularily find useful

• Color Calculator
• Color Palette Generator*
• Color Advice for Maps*
• COLOURlovers
• Colllor
• Colorotate
• 0to255*
• ColorHexa
• Colormunki
• Pictaculous*
• Colorcombos
• Kuler*
• Colorspire
• Copaso
• Sphere*
• Genopal
• Color Scheme Designer
• colr.org
• color hunter
• combo tester*
• colorwizard
• designseeds
• colorgrab
• colorschemer gallery
• hailpixel*
• Raphaeljs picker*
• color codes*
• webcolourdata*

 

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Open Data Sites

ArcGIS Resources Blog:  Charlotte, NC

• Charlotte City and County Maps Gallery

ArcGIS Open Data Showcase

Explore Open Data Map

Cool Open Culture Videos

Johnny Cash Christmas

David Lynch Music Videos

Cool gifts

Guitar pick maker

Camera lenses

2014 TIGER/Line Shapefile file name definitions

SOURCE

IAITGIS

Iowa IT and GIS department info:


https://public.tableausoftware.com/views/ICIT/ICITMembers?:showVizHome=no#1

Adding Map Tiles to ArcGIS online

Just some helpful links (unsorted):

http://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2013/03/21/adding-tile-layers-to-your-web-map/

http://jonahsmaps.tumblr.com/post/63650958094/customized-basemaps-and-layers-in-arcgis-online

http://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis/2013/04/01/using-stamen-and-mapbox-tilesets-as-basemaps-in-arcgis-com/

http://thunderforest.com/

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tiles

http://maps.stamen.com/#watercolor/12/37.7706/-122.3782

• http://{subDomain}.tile.opencyclemap.org/cycle/{level}/{col}/{row}.png
• http:/{subdomain}tile.stamen.com/watercolor/{level}/{col}/{row}.jpg
• http:/{subdomain}tile.stamen.com/toner/{level}/{col}/{row}.png

http://www.arcgis.com/home/group.html?owner=cartogeek&title=Stamen%20basemaps

http://www.nps.gov/npmap/blog/using-park-tiles-in-arcgis-online.html

Dutch Boy Color Palette

Broken Pot

Bullseye
Canteen
Solar Glow
Map Paper