Data categories

Before adding data to the Compilation window, become familiar with how the data is organized. Data is organized into categories depending on where it's stored. You can use data from the following categories:

• Maps for Creative Cloud—This category exposes layers and sample web maps that are well suited for use in the ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud extension. The content in this category is published by Esri, business partners, and the Esri ArcGIS Online community. Some content is public and free for all users, while other content may require a specific mapping profile or additional licensing or privileges, or consume credits.
• Living Atlas of the World—If you have access, you can browse selected map layers from ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World including vector tile basemaps, satellite imagery, boundaries, or other environmental data sets. Some ArcGIS Living Atlas content may consume credits. This information appears in the item description.
• ArcGIS Online—Browse map and image layers from the ArcGIS community and add them to your compiled maps. (Not available for ArcGIS Enterprise accounts.)
• ArcGIS Enterprise—Browse content in your ArcGIS Enterprise organization, including local ArcGIS Living Atlas content. (Not available for ArcGIS Online accounts.)
• My Favorites—Find content that you've marked as favorites. You can create a list of favorites from your own items and from items that you see in search results, in ArcGIS Living Atlas, and in other ArcGIS apps.
• My Content—Items that you own, including published layers and web maps.
• My Groups—Items shared to groups that you're a member of and groups that you own.

  Nota:

  Distributed collaboration workflows are not yet supported.

• My Organization's Groups—Items shared to groups in your ArcGIS organization to which you have access, including groups shared to the public, groups that are viewable at the organization level, groups in the organization that you’re a member of, and groups that you own.
• My Organization—Items that you have access to in your ArcGIS organization, including items shared with the public, items shared with your organization, and items that you own.

Data types

The Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud extension allows the following data types:

• Basemaps—A layer or map that provides a background of geographical context for the content you want to display on a map.
• Web maps—An ArcGIS web map is an interactive display of geographic information. It can be used to tell stories and answer questions. A web map may contain one or more layers using the types of data listed below.
• Feature services—A map service with feature access enabled. Feature layers allow you to change symbols style, add labels, define queries, and sync as vector layers into Adobe Illustrator. Feature services are the most useful and common type of layer to use in Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud.
• Image services—Raster images of pre-rendered map styles (that can't be changed) or, in many cases, satellite imagery. Image services can be used in both Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator. However, as they are raster images, they cannot be modified in Illustrator, which makes their use in Photoshop more common.
• Dynamic map services—A map that is drawn by the server each time you zoom or pan. A dynamic map service does not have a cache of tiles and tends to perform slower than tiled map services.
• Vector tile services—References a set of web-accessible vector tiles and a corresponding style that dictates how the tiles will draw. They store a vector representation of the data instead of a raster representation like tiled map services. For best results with vector tile basemaps, consider using a tool like ArcGIS Vector Tile Style Editor before adding it to your map.

  Nota:

  Downloading vector tile data with the extension requires the Default mapping profile.

  Sugerencia:

  Vector tile basemaps can include sprites, which are typically used in basemaps for road symbols or icons or texture patterns. All sprites are images and are synced to Illustrator as images that cannot be easily edited. You can customize sprites using vector basemap styling options. To learn more about creating and styling vector basemap using ArcGIS, see The Basics: Customizing Esri's Vector Basemaps.

• Tiled map services—Supports fast map visualization using a collection of predrawn map images, or tiles. These tiles are created and stored on the server after you upload your data.

  These layers are synced into Illustrator and Photoshop as raster images.

• Local files—These include the following:
  • CSV, TXT, and GPX—You can add data to your map that is stored in a comma-separated values text file (.csv), a delimited text file (.txt), or GPS exchange file format (.gpx). The location information and features are drawn on the map for each item in the file, and the information is stored in the map as a layer.
  • GeoJSON—You can add GeoJSON files (.geojson and .json). GeoJSON is an open standard geospatial data interchange format that represents simple geographic features and their nonspatial attributes.
  • Shapefiles—You can add shapefiles (compressed into a .zip file). A shapefile is an Esri vector data storage format for storing the location, shape, and attributes of geographic features.
  • KML/KMZ—You can add uncompressed .kml files or compressed .kmz files. KML is an XML-based file format used to represent geographic features. KML allows you to draw points, lines, and polygons on maps and globes and share them with others.
• Places—You can search and create points of interest on your map based on a specific address, name, or category of location types.

Add layers or a map

To add a layer or a web map, complete the following steps:

If you have a layer with the data symbolized on a continuous scale (unclassed, as opposed to using discrete classes), the Contents pane may display it with a legend that groups quantitative values into ranges. However, when you download the map, the paths in the AI file won't be grouped correspondingly. If you want your downloaded map to group these features into similar sublayers, update the layer's symbology in the Compilation window by choosing a classification scheme. (Click the layer's Change Style option, choose a classification method, and specify more than one class break to create discrete categories.)

When you don't choose a classification method for a layer symbolized by a quantitative value, each feature is symbolized along a continuous, non-discrete color scheme (for choropleth) or continuum of circle sizes ranging from smallest to largest (for graduated symbology) and will be unique to that feature unless it shares the exact attribute value with another feature. For best results, especially if you plan to use the Map Legend process to generate a legend, choose a classification method to use discrete classes instead.

Non-drawing layers

There are cases where some layers may not be able to display in the map. Rather than remove these layers from the map, the layers appear in the Contents pane with a warning icon next to the layer name.

If you hover over the icon, it indicates what the issue is with that particular layer. If you resolve the issue, the layer will display in the map and the icon goes away. For example, if you get a warning saying that the maximum record count for the layer has been exceeded, you can apply a filter to the layer to reduce the number of features being drawn, so you can see it draw on the map. For a list of common errors with a possible cause and solution, see the Troubleshoot topic.

By default, all non-drawing layers appear in the layer list. You can click the Toggle display of non-drawing layers button to hide the layers, if preferred.

Find and add places

Add a layer from a file

To add a layer from a file, complete the following steps: