{"id":7,"date":"2009-06-07T18:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-07T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=7"},"modified":"2009-06-07T18:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-07T18:01:00","slug":"useful-tools-to-have-in-arcgis-arcmap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"Useful tools to have in ArcGIS (ArcMap)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well I use ArcMap on daily basis to aid the masterplanning work we&#8217;re doing, one thing I&#8217;ve found difficult is producing paper maps!  Sure you can place all your data in one file but making it in to a map that other people can read is hard work.  The one tool I recommend above all others is ArcMapBook (or DS Mapbook) it allows you to place a grid over exisitng data and make a series of paper maps to cover a city or a road network!<\/p>\n<p>So it is with this in mind that I suggest you the following free tools, this list will expand some come back again if it&#8217;s not very long!<br \/>ArcMapBook: <a href=\"http:\/\/arcmapbook.googlepages.com\/\">http:\/\/arcmapbook.googlepages.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/resources.esri.com\/arcgisdesktop\/dotnet\/index.cfm?fa=codeGalleryDetails&amp;scriptId=15752\">BookMarkManager 1.4.1 Mapbook generator<\/a> (website link too long for this post!)<br \/>Et Geowizards: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ian-ko.com\/\">http:\/\/www.ian-ko.com\/<\/a><br \/>HawthTools: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spatialecology.com\/htools\/index.php\">http:\/\/www.spatialecology.com\/htools\/index.php<\/a><br \/>ArcSketch: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/software\/arcgis\/extensions\/arcsketch\/index.html\">http:\/\/www.esri.com\/software\/arcgis\/extensions\/arcsketch\/index.html<\/a><br \/>ArcSketch is great for quickly drawing out features with the correct symbology, I&#8217;ve only just started to use it and it&#8217;s great!<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/arcmapbook.googlepages.com\/\"><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well I use ArcMap on daily basis to aid the masterplanning work we&#8217;re doing, one thing I&#8217;ve found difficult is producing paper maps! Sure you can place all your data in one file but making it in to a map that other people can read is hard work. The one tool I recommend above all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7,8,6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-downloads","category-gis","category-plugins","category-tools","category-workflow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geoplanit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}