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Two steps are involved to create this effect: In this blog entry, I explain two ways to create the drop shadow effect: the first uses a single color for the drop shadow and the second uses a gradient pattern. For the map of Bangladesh, this allows you to see that the country as a whole is in a low-lying area, but its major rivers are being fed by runoff from mountains to the north and east.
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This example also shows how well this technique works when you want to provide some detail outside the area of interest – a nice alternative to simply clipping the map extent to the figure. In the example below, the “figure” polygon is Bangladesh which I have emphasized with a drop shadow. The map on the right uses a drop shadow to promote this important design principle. The map on the left has poor figure-ground organization. The way this is done in ArcMap is to use cartographic representations and the Move geometric effect. One way to promote figure-ground organization is to use a “drop shadow” effect in which a shadow is drawn for the “figure”, giving the impression that it is raised above the ground. Cartographers use this design principle to help their map readers find the area of the map or page to focus on. In a previous blog entry, I discussed some of the major design principles used in cartography, including figure-ground organization, which is the spontaneous separation of the figure in the foreground from an “amorphous” background.