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A Comparison of the 1974 and 2011 Super Outbreaks
For these series of assignments in my Cartography course through UCLA Extension, I was challenged to recreate a National Park Reference map from one of the top ten most visited national Parks. I chose to replicate Grand Teton National Park because I had just visited it last year and I was familiar with the map layout already.
I used a world topographic reference map in ArcGIS Pro but then created a custom states and province layer from 1:10m Natural Earth Data files.The hillside was darkened and adjusted with transparency to make it appear the least distracting. I retrieved the data files I used from Natural Earth data, TIGER Line Shapefiles, Esri, and the National Park Service data portal.
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The water features, road features, mountains, facilities, and amenities layers were created through using the geoprocessing techniques of clipping and merging. I decided to use these techniques in order to combine data layers and improve efficiency in layer rendering and loading. It also allowed me to combine the many facilities, buildings, and ammenities that were in the park instead of manipulating them all as separate files.
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Below is an embed window to my web map of Grand Teton National Park, I created it by adjusting the static reference map replica I made. I chose to use a topographic Esri basemap in order to display the layers I created in ArcGIS Pro. I wanted to use a base map mostly because I still need to adjust labels from my static base map to be displayed in a way that replicates the official National Park Service map. The layers that were designed by me are the roads and highways layer, the park boundary layer, the lakes layer, and all the point layers that represent facilities and amenities that visitors can attend or use.
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