By Kardi Teknomo, PhD .

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Dot Density Map

Instead of Choropleth map , you can also make Dot density map

Arc GIS Tutorial: Dot Density Map

In ArcMap, use the following steps:

  1. In the left panel, that is table of content of the layers; do right click on layer Administrative Boundary . A pop up menu will be shown.
  2. Click on the pop up menu: Properties
  3. In the Layers Properties dialog, choose Symbology Tab
  4. Select Show> Quantities > Dot Density
  5. For Field Selection click: Pop_Admin, then click > button
  6. Select the color ramp you want to specify. ArcGIS automatically put the color and category
  7. Optionally, you may change the color of dot or the dot size.
  8. Click OK button

Arc GIS Tutorial: Dot Density Map

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This tutorial is copyrighted .

Preferable reference for this tutorial is

Teknomo, Kardi (2015) Introduction to GIS. https:\\people.revoledu.com\kardi\ tutorial\GIS\