An overview of the Cartography toolset

The Nautical toolbox's Cartography toolset provides tools that can be used to finish a nautical chart for final production. These tools allow you to modify symbology and generate cartographic data for your charts.

Tool	Description
Align Representation Markers	Adjusts the placement of overlapping point symbols so they draw correctly on nautical charts. This process involves two features: inputs and aligners. The input features are items such as buoys, beacons, or light structures, and the aligners are features such as topmarks. To ensure that the two features draw correctly on the map, the aligner representations are rotated and offset from the input representations.
Generate Annotation Masks	Generates polygon masks for annotation features that intersect other polygon features. This tool supports nautical cartographic workflows that require masking based on geographic coincidence to specified input features. The specified input features (those that intersect the input annotation features) can be polygons or polylines from the ArcGIS for Maritime: Charting data model or other sources.
Generate Cartographic Limits	Makes it easy to remove coincident features along a coastline and eliminates masks. This improves cartographic display of nautical digital and hard-copy charts in the following manner: Establishes a seaward limit of features coincident to a coastline Reduces the number of features rendered on a chart Decreases drawing and export times of nautical products
Generate Light Sector	Creates light sector features based on a specified point feature class. Light sectors typically appear on nautical charts and depict the distance a light can be seen from its source. Light sectors are based on light features in the AidsToNavigationP feature class in the ArcGIS for Maritime: Charting.

Tools in the Cartography toolset