As designers, we have all had a project that required a map. And for those of us with limited cartography background, the process usually involves stitching together a series of screenshots, stock photography or tracing a map from some kind of reference found online.

With ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud — a free extension for Illustrator and Photoshop — designers now have access to geographic data in a native format, making it easier to tell deeper stories around the data that actually connects us.

Download ArcGIS Maps for Adobe: http://ow.ly/Pv3B50zASn2

In this example, we will walk through the process of how to access spatial content from Adobe Illustrator to create and animate various ferry routes around NYC:
We will import population data and create a vector base map with the help of spatial content available with ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud.
We will then animate the data on the map in Adobe After Effects.

00:12 Part 1: Launching ArcGIS Maps for Adobe Creative Cloud from Adobe Illustrator
05:17 Part 2: Preparing files for animation in Adobe Illustrator
12:13 Part 3: Animating Spatial data in After Effects

Read the stepbystep guide: http://ow.ly/Yjpr50zFghj

Download the data (free) used in this lesson: https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html...

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