Does anyone know of good printable documents of the as-shipped Esri symbol sets, also called ?  The new with Arcgis 10 ability to search symbol sets is a great boon, but one can still only find things for which you know the keywords for, and only few so many at a time on screen. I find hard copy of things like this much easier and faster to look through and locate the right one for the map at hand.  For example this morning I was looking for a good glacial moraine symbol and searching the style sets didn't locate anything relevant. So I decided to bite the bullet and build my own. In the process I went browsing through the ...\Desktop10\Styles directory and discovered several pictures I've never noticed represented in any styles that would be perfect for the project I'm working on. Since they're here they very likely already exist in a symbol set and I'd be wasting my time creating them anew. Thus the desire for a printed set to help me find them.  In previous versions there is a developer sample called , but it doesn't work in Arcgis 10 (and the results were pretty crude and wasted paper anyway).
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ESRI has an  from 2004 showing all the symbols available in ArcGIS at the time and their names. I don't need it often but if I'm searching for a certain symbol and don't know its name it's sometimes easier to look at a few sheets of paper than to use the Symbol Selector. It doesn't seem like it's been updated for ArcGIS 10, though. I was wondering if anyone is aware of a new version of this, or if anyone has created one on their own they might be willing to share.
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How can I make a list as shown in the picture?    I want to have a similar list of abbreviations/notions where everything is lined up as shown in the picture. I have tried to use the glossaries package, but that didn't give me the dots inbetween.  I have also tried to use \begin{description}, but then I had to manually enter the dots.  Can someone help me with this?
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In arcgis, this can be easily done by using the Symbology tab in the properties.I need to achieve a similar effect in Geoserver. How can I do it?
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Is there a way to change symbology for multiple layers in ArcMap or ArcCatalog. I want to change the symbology of multiple layers at once.
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I have a large geology data set that I need to display using an industry standard set of symbols and colours. The symbols and colours are attributes of the data. I have been using the data defined symbols capability of the dev build of QGIS (code revision b805894) to display the data according to its attributes. This works perfectly in terms of displaying the data correctly in the map window.  The problem arises when I try to create a legend in the composer. The data-defined colours displayed on the map don't pull through to the legend.  Here are some screens shots. The first shows the map window. You can see the problem manifesting in the Layers box on the left. The symbols are all coloured black.  The second screen shot shows the composer window with a legend.
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Let's say I'm designing a logo or some other artwork that it's both for printing and screen. How should I set my ai file? CMYK or RGB? Align to grid or not? For instance, when I "save for the web" and my artwork is not align to grid and CMKY, will that affect the result? Do you create separate files for print and screen? Thanks in advance
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What is the name for these type of images? I love these kind of graphics and it's so flat which totally matches my current product development.      Do we have a name for it? A name will make it easier to search for examples and how to's.
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I am trying to represent trade flows on a world map where the size and direction of arrows indicate the exports/imports of a given country.  This type of map is commonly found in magazines and newspapers. However, I find it extremely difficult to make.   Is there any function in ArcGIS for Desktop or any free software that would help me in making it?
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I am putting together a GIS server using GeoServer and need some help with importing my layer styles from ArcGIS 10 to  format.    I have one layer in ArcMap properly symbolized and labeled, how can I get this layers symbolization and labeling into a SLD file?
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In QGIS, I have been learning a few expressions to style my trail maps but still know little and am stumped on what to use to filter my symbol data. I am showing Parking locations on my map. I use a marker symbol as a background element, so I can do callouts. I created a data field and added values to display beside this symbol a number that references a list of parking addresses in the book's text. All good except if the field has no number to display, it is NULL, it does not display my marker symbol. I need to filter this, so it does show even when there is no value in the field.
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I've got a project where I'm reading in geometry objects from text files to put them in ArcSDE. These geometry objects have an associated EPSG code, and I'm looking for a way to ensure they're in the right projection when I've finished with them.  Having taken a look at the factory codes that I'm interested in, (GCS GDA94; EPSG:4283, and VicGrid 94; EPSG:3111) for a project I'm working on it appears that the EPSG codes correspond directly to the ESRI factory codes for the spatial reference ( and ). This is great, as it means I don't have to worry about navigating to projection files to create  objects, for example in the code below:  import arcpy  # Create a spatial reference object using a factory code # sr = arcpy.SpatialReference() sr.factoryCode = int(epsg_code.lstrip("EPSG:")) sr.create()   Unfortunately I can't find any reference in the ESRI documentation to say whether this holds true all the time or not - I'm guess it does, but I'd rather know for sure. Does anyone know where I'd be able to find out?
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I'm working with several layer stacks that have 100+ bands in QGIS. The stacks are ENVI files, all band names are properly stored in the headers. Unfortunately, QGIS will not diplay them when choosing the style or when extracting info by clicking on the map. However, QGIS will show all the names Properties->Metadata.  Isn't there any way to get the band names to show properly?
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I'm trying to make a map using the Javascript API.  I want to use my own basemap, but I can't find the most simple code to do this.  I always see something like this:    function init() {     map = new esri.Map("mapDiv", {       basemap: "satellite",       center: [-97.395, 37.537],       zoom: 11     });   But I don't want to use the ArcGIS online basemaps.  What is the code to make a map service I am hosting my basemap?
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I would like to make a list of symbols and abbreviations without using any special packages like nomencl and alike. What I would like is just left-aligned two columns once for the symbols and one for the abbreviations.   Should I start with the following?  \begin{flalign*} Symbol_1 &amp;: Meaning of Symbol_1 \\ Symbol_2 &amp;: Meaning of Symbol_2 : : \end{flalign*}   Would be very grateful for any help!
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How do I prepare CSV files for use in ArcGIS Desktop.   I ask because I have some troubles using CSV files because ArcGIS attributes wrong field types to my columns and also misinterprets special characters such as á or ê.   I have read in the Esri forum that there is a so-called schema.ini file that defines somehow the field types e.g "Col22=V002 Text" see here   That's kind of funny because I have often seen these .ini files on my disc but never actually wondered what they are good for. It is kind of weird that Excel stores such metadata in an extra file since other programs like R don't do so.   I already tried to manipulate this .ini file with little success since I didn't find out how to apply for example "string" type. There are some information on MS sites, see here:  but I couldn't find a solution.  Also I didn't really like the idea to work with this .ini file because it is quite a bunch of work to define and type all the fieldnames when I have let's say 50 columns. And these .ini files might get lost, etc.
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I wish to use the symbol as in the following picture, however, I can not find it. Can someone help me?
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Some material I'm creating requires output that looks like this:  (note the position of the arrows).    I'm using the following code (with the AMS macros) to generate this, and I'm looking for comments - it works fine, but I'm curious if there's a better/cleaner way to deal with the arrows:  \[   \begin{bmatrix}[rrr|r] 1 &amp; 2 &amp; 0 &amp; -1 \\ 2 &amp; 1 &amp; 1 &amp; 1 \\ -1 &amp; 1 &amp; -1 &amp; -1   \end{bmatrix}   \begin{matrix}[c] ~ \\ \xrightarrow{R_2-2R_1} \\ \xrightarrow{R_3+R_1} \end{matrix}   \begin{bmatrix}[rrr|r] 1 &amp; 2 &amp; 0 &amp; -1 \\ 0 &amp; -3 &amp; 1 &amp; 3 \\ 0 &amp; 3 &amp; -1 &amp; -2 \end{bmatrix}   \begin{matrix}[c] ~ \\ ~ \\ \xrightarrow{R_2+R_3} \end{matrix}   \begin{bmatrix}[rrr|r] 1 &amp; 2 &amp; 0 &amp; -1 \\ 0 &amp; -3 &amp; 1 &amp; 3 \\ 0 &amp; 0 &amp; 0 &amp; 1 \end{bmatrix} \]   I'm using only the standard AMS macros, together with a cute addition to the matrix macros that I found on the Web that allows column specifications within the AMS matrices:  \makeatletter \renewcommand*\env@matrix[1][*\c@MaxMatrixCols c]{%   \hskip -\arraycolsep   \let\@ifnextchar\new@ifnextchar   \array{#1}} \makeatother