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Creating the map extents

Creating the map extents - Creative Cloud Tutorial

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Creating the map extents

- [Instructor] Now the first step in creating a new map is to create the extents of the map, so basically what you would like contained in it. Now just for the purposes of demonstration here, I've kept my Compilation window open as well because I want you to actually see the dynamic relationship between the two things. It's the Compilation window where we do most of the work in all honesty, but we can't do that without starting here with the mapboards. So what I'm going to do is basically search for a place to narrow it down. Now, your view may be slightly different to mine because I've actually nudged this into place where it is just now because Esri is a U.S. company and it actually begins typically with the U.S. focused in the map if I remember correctly, but it's quite a while ago that I put this together here. So what I'm going to do instead is click the search icon just here. Let's search for one of the places I…

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