One Minute Map Hack: How to Use Pictures as Point Symbols in ArcGIS Pro

You can do loads of stuff by building up symbol layers in ArcGIS Pro. You can also pull in an image to use as a symbol if you like. Here's how!

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[wolfnrg]

Finishing up the Cartography MOOC. Love everything I learned as a new map maker. The fireflies are a nice touch to this map and will help me when I have to do nesting densities (for Birds of prey). TY!!!

[mohamedsaad]

Thank John, I learned a lot from you ❤

[georgew]

Hey John, what about if you take a snip or screenshot of an image and save it but to your computer, but it has that white background incorporated into the saved image? It looked like your pictures here had a white background but when you imported them that went away?

[guganesan.ilavarasan]

Can I please get the links for the earthquake dataset and the corresponding firefly images, sir?
P.S. I checked you on Instagram last week, and have commented on some of your posts. You're seriously underrated, I'll share your video amongst my archaeology community.

[eduardoardila]

Hi John, I´m taking the Cartography MOOC and I'd like to know if is there any way to turn those picture files into a .style file? Just to avoid the manual process of choose every symbol for every class in eeeevery project that I want to use these good looking firefly symbols.
Thanks a lot!

[harismaulana]

What the projection of imagery did you use? Thanks for sharing.

[ramikhrais]

Hi John. Thank you for all your tutorials. When it comes to picture fill for points and polygons, is there any standard that we should follow regarding the image resolution/size?