Find and Style Detailed Water Polygons for your Maps

Finding reasonably detailed, current, map content like water areas can be a real challenge to map makers. Here's how you can find (and download) pretty high res, timely, land cover data, and convert it to vector polygons for your map. Plus a bunch of different ways to style water in ArcGIS Pro, if you are into that. Here's the app where you can explore, and download, land cover data: https://livingatlas.arcgis.com/landcoverexplorer 0:00 Large scale vs small scale 0:42 Sentinel-2 Land Cover Explorer 1:13 Downloading land cover data 1:33 Isolating a section of the image 2:44 Optional step to extract only water (or whatever) 3:07 Converting the raster image to polygons 3:31 Filtering polygons to only water 4:33 Styling: wavy water fill 5:21 Styling: coastal gradients 6:01 Styling: rippled water rings 7:13 Styling: beveled edge water 7:59 Styling: stylistic pattern fill 8:30 Other land cover features you can use this on Music: Venkatesananda by Jesse Gallagher Check out some other social channels where I share how-to's and updates on random map adventures: http://adventuresinmapping.com https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/author/j_nelson/ https://twitter.com/John_M_Nelson https://www.instagram.com/johnmnelson/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnmnelson/