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 generate cartographic data for your charts.

Tool	Description
Chart Automation	Runs selected chart-finishing processes on a production database with the Nautical Chart schema. Processes include adding layers to the TOC, generating cartographic limits, creating grids and graticules, converting labels to annotation, and masking annotation.
Calculate Symbology	Calculates representation symbology and field labels for nautical charts. ArcGIS for Maritime: Cartografía symbology tools are based on representations, which are the symbols that represent features and text fields in the map text display. The calculated representations and text fields use combinations of feature attributes to determine the symbols for particular features within a feature class.
Create ZOC Diagram	The Create ZOC Diagram tool automates the creation of a Zone of Confidence (ZOC) diagram. These diagrams enable mariners to assess the quality of the hydrographic data from which the chart was compiled. Processes are run on a production database with the Nautical Chart schema and include adding layers to the table of contents, creating grids and graticules, creating category of zone of confidence in data (CATZOC) outlines, adding land area (LNDARE) features, and setting symbology.
Product Library Chart Automation	Runs selected chart-finishing processes on a nautical chart product created with Product Library. Processes include adding layers to the TOC, generating cartographic limits, creating grids and graticules, converting labels to annotation, and masking annotation.
Generate Annotation Masks	Generates polygon masks for annotation features that intersect other polyline 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) are polylines from the ArcGIS for Maritime: Cartografía data model or other sources.
Generate Cartographic Limits	Converts polygon features to polylines and removes all segments coincident with the erase features. It is most often used to remove the outline of coincident features along a coastline or neatline, improving the cartographic display of digital and hard-copy nautical charts in the following manner: Establish a seaward limit of features coincident to a coastline. Reduce the number of features rendered on a chart. Decrease 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: Cartografía.

Tools in the Cartography toolset