The aim of this lab exercise was to ingrain in us some of the basic requirements for a professional map presentation while also encouraging us to explore the many options available for preparing map layouts. The basic elements of title, north arrow, scale bar, legend, creator, date of creation and data source are required for all the maps we produce. Exactly how these items will be presented in the finished map, however, is up to us.
I explored just a few of the many options provided by ArcMap in creating my final map layout. I added muted colors as backgrounds for the data frames and legend (Yucca Yellow for the inset, Olivine Yellow for the main background, and grey for the legend), changed the fonts of the titles, scale bar and text to italicized Times New Roman, added a drop shadow to the inset map, and rounded the corners of the legend.
On a final note, the utility of making the scale bar units multiples of 2 or 5 was something I had not been aware of previously; in this map I followed the advice of the lab instructions in doing so.
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