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Cartography¶

Historic Topographic Map Recreation (series)¶

• Part 1 — Reimagining Topographic Grids & Graticules in ArcGIS Pro · 2025-08-07 · 7 min read

• Recreating Historic Scale Bars in ArcGIS Pro · 2025-08-01 · 4 min read I have recently been working on a custom cartographic layout in ArcGIS Pro, referencing a 1960s topographic map of Mount Desert Island, Acadia National Park. My goal was to faithfully recreate the look (for sure) & feel (maybe not yet there) of historical scale bars, specifically guided by the U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-430: Digital Cartographic Standard for Geologic Map Symbolization U.S. Geological Survey, 1999.